Chapter  9

Browsing the Web with Safari

Lion includes the latest version of Apple’s own web browser, Safari. Safari is a fast, standards-compliant web browser loaded with lots of useful features for getting the most out of the Web. This chapter will take a look at Safari and its capabilities, including the following:

  • Safari basics
  • Adding and managing bookmarks
  • Tabbed browsing
  • Downloading content from the Web
  • Viewing PDFs
  • Auto-filling form data
  • Security
  • Advanced browsing features
  • RSS and syndication feeds
  • Plug-ins and inline content
  • Web clippings

Safari Basics

Safari is Mac OS X’s default web browser, but you can install and use any other available Mac web browser as well including Chrome, Firefox, Camino, OmniWeb, Opera, and others. (Later ...

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