With macOS Big Sur and Monterey, Apple positions Safari as the true alternative toGoogle Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
Here are the top six ways to customize Safari like a pro on Mac.
Try New Tab Design
With macOS Monterey, Apple is offering a different way to organize your tabs.
Step 1:Open Safari on Mac and select Safari name in the menu bar.
Step 2:Go to Safari Preferences.
Step 3:From the Tabs menu, select Compact.
You will quickly see the current tabs changing the position to the top with extensions and other items.
This is useful for those who want to utilize more space in Safari on Mac.
Enable Color in Tab Bar
This is yet another addition Apple added with the macOS Monterey update.
you might now enable color in the tab bar.
Safari will extract color from the website and show it across the tab bar.
Step 1:initiate the Safari Preferences menu.
Step 2:Go to Tabs.
Step 3:Enable Show color in tab bar option.
From the same menu, you’ve got the option to revert to the previous method.
Customize Toolbar
This is one of the oldest methods to customize the Safari experience on Mac.
Open Safari and right-tap on a space in the top space.
Select Customize Toolbar, and it will open a dedicated toolbar menu.
you could use the toolbar menu to drag and drop relevant functions to the toolbar.
Users can even add Flexible space to the Safari toolbar.
Apply Background Wallpaper
Step 1:Open Safari and hit the hamburger menu at the bottom.
Enable iCloud Tabs
This is useful for those switching between Apple devices frequently.
Step 1:Go to Safari and tap on the hamburger menu at the bottom.
Step 2:Enable iCloud tabs, and you will see the Safari tabs appearing on the home.
From the same menu, you could enable Privacy Report as well.
Privacy report states the amount of harmful trackers Safari is blocking during your browsing sessions.
Change Search Engine
By default, Safari uses Google to answer your queries.
However, Safari isnt limited to Google only.
you’re free to easily change it to Yahoo or DuckDuckGo from the Preferences menu.
Step 1:Open Safari on Mac.
Step 2:Use command + , keys and initiate the preferences menu.
Step 3:Go to Search.
Step 4:pick the Search engine.
Personalize Safari Experience on Mac
Users can also go ahead and uninstall Safari extensions on Mac.
Safari remains our top choice to browse the web on the Mac.
We recommend going with Safari and making relevant changes based on your preferences for the rest of the crowd.
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