Beta Beat: More great Safari 3 features
Thank you to all our readers who have been writing in and leaving comments about more great features in the new Safari 3 beta. Here is a quick roundup of our second batch of new Safari capabilities, including window jockeying, tab management, and a nifty desktop picture tool.
Merging Windows. Earlier, we posted about how you can drag tabs off a Safari tab bar and open them up in their own window. What we didn't catch until some readers pointed this out to us is that you can also do the opposite in Safari 3. To join all open windows and tabs into a single Safari window, choose Window -> Merge All Windows.
Opening a tab into a window from the menu. If you don't like dragging off your tabs and just want to use a menu item, Window -> Move Tab to New Window does the job just as well.
Reopening the most recently closed window. Here's another great Safari 3 feature. Have you ever accidentally closed a window when you thought the focus was on another window instead? Safari now lets you reopen the last closed window. No more searching through your history, trying to figure out which window you just closed by accident! And when Safari crashes? (Shall we not pretend that it doesn't?) Use Reopen All Windows From Last Session to pick up where you left off. (Firefox 2 users are familiar with the power of this handy feature.)
Set any Safari as your Desktop background. I don't remember ever seeing this one before so please let me know if it's not actually new to Safari 3--but it was new to me. Right-click any image in a Safari window and choose Use Image as Desktop Picture. Booya!
Accessing the Inspector. After a bunch of readers commented about us not covering the Webkit inspector, I finally broke down and installed Webkit SVN using the instructions I found here. Once installed and with the proper defaults set, the Webkit inspector allows you to investigate the contents of your Safari Webpages. You can access the inspector from the context pop-up. (Right-click or control-click anywhere on a Safari webpage to open the context menu.)
