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Shortcuts and the Safari Bookmarks Toolbar

A Shortcut to Some of Your Favorite Web Sites

From Tom Nelson and Mary F. O'Connor

Shortcuts and the Safari Bookmarks Toolbar

Use the command keys and the numbers one through nine to access the first nine web sites in the Safari bookmarks toolbar.

Screen shot courtesy Coyote Moon, Inc

If you have web sites bookmarked in the Safari Bookmarks toolbar, you can access up to nine of them without ever touching the toolbar. If you haven't bookmarked your favorite sites in the Bookmarks toolbar, this tip might be a good reason to do so.

Press command+1 (the command key plus the number 1) to access the first site on the left in the Bookmarks toolbar; press command+2 to access the second site from the left in the Bookmarks toolbar, and so on.

This tip only works for sites, not folders. If you have both folders and sites in the Bookmarks toolbar, these shortcuts will skip the folders and open the web sites in the order they appear in the toolbar, from left to right.

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