Safari

[Quackers]

Only had my first Mac a week (Mac Book Air), and still adjusting after 20 years of Windows use.

I have some annoyances with Safari, and wondering if anybody knows how to solve them.

First one is tabbed browsing.

When i load Safari the 'New Tab' + button on the far right of the toolbar is not present, and only appears when going to File > New Tab. How do i quickly open a new Tab without going File > New Tab like i can once i have 2 tabs open?

Second thing

I love the grid as my homepage thats shows my often used websites, very handy. But its seems random as to what i get when i open safari, even from a cold boot. Sometimes i the grid, sometimes i get 5 windows open at once with my last used sites, dispite closing them. Cannot find any preferences anywhere to force what i want.

Third of all

How do i turn off this spell checking? I keeps changing words for me, and if i am not watching closely sending some very odd sentences. Do not think its just safari, as its doing it in Outlook too. But still getting use to it OS X.

 

[BrianLachoreVPI]

cmd-t will create a new tab.

If you click edit while viewing your topsites - you'll see a thumbtack and an X. Use those to remove or affix the sites of your choice.

 

[dtravis7]

Also if you double click the Tab Bar on a blank spot next to the last tab a new Tab will open. That + though should be showing up although I always just double click the bar.

The Spelling is a System Wide feature in OSX.

Here is a url that tells how in Safari.

http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/18/disable-spelling-auto-correct-safari-mac-os-x/

And one for the System Wide.

http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/28/turn-off-auto-correct-in-mac-os-x-lion/

 

[chas_m]

The trick to getting spellcheck to not substitute words ... is to spell them properly (or at least NEARLY properly)!

 

[BrianLachoreVPI]

The trick to getting spellcheck to not substitute words ... is to spell them properly (or at least NEARLY properly)!

Yes - but I know what he means. Sometimes even a typo can result in a word not flagged as misspelled but changed to something you definitely weren't intending. If you're typing a couple of paragraphs - it's easy to have a typo here and there that OS X corrupts by changing the words errantly.

 

[toMACsh]

Even if "spell check on the fly" saves me a little time, I'd rather run it manually and be able to look at what the software is proposing. Saving errors is a higher priority to me.

 

[dtravis7]

I find IOS's spell checking to do that a lot more than OSX Lions. Normally in OSX the suggestions are dead one in comparison, at least for me