macOS Sierra: The Missing Manual

Customizing the Toolbar

There’s no title bar in Safari. So the real estate on the bar that remains—the address/search bar, the one Apple calls the toolbar—is precious. Fortunately, you can summon or dismiss individual buttons on the toolbar, in effect customizing it (Figure 19-7).

There’s no way to summon text labels for these icons once they’re on the toolbar. But all offer tooltip labels that you can read by pointing to the buttons without clicking.

Figure 19-7. To summon this toolbar-tailoring screen, choose View→Customize Toolbar. Drag the buttons you want directly onto the address bar.

Here’s a catalog of your options:

• Back/Forward. Click the Back button (〈) to revisit the page you were just on, or 〉 to return to the page you were on before you clicked the Back button. See Figure 19-1 for more details.

• iCloud Tabs open whatever browser windows and tabs you had open on your other Apple gadget, like an iPhone or iPad or another Mac (running Mountain Lion or later). Thanks to the miracle of iCloud syncing, the last windows and tabs you had open on that other gadget (even if the gadget is turned off) show up here. (This is visible in Figure 19-13.)

• Share. Here’s the standard macOS Share menu, for sending a web page to another person, or to your Notes app, for example.

• Show All Tabs. See Tab View.

• Top Sites opens, of course, the Top Sites window (Tip).

• Home. Click to bring up the web page ...