Custom ways on Safari increase the browser experience

On Apple devices like iPhone / iPad or macOS, Safari is the default browser, similar to Android is Google Chrome. Through the upgrade of the operating system, Safari browser has been changed in performance as well as some new features, to increase the user experience when using the browser.

However, there are some default settings on Safari that are not really useful to users. Therefore, we need to change those settings to make it easier to browse the web. The following article will guide readers to perform some customizations on Safari macOS, increasing efficiency when using the browser.

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1. Turn on Link Preview in Status Bar:

When browsing the web, Safari will see links to other articles, or other web pages. However, not all of these affiliate links will serve your needs, even the links may lead to some phishing pages.

To limit the status of the spam link before clicking, we just need to display the preview link by displaying Show status bar. At the menu bar click on View and turn on Show status bar .

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So when you click on the link, you will see the link preview at the bottom of the screen.

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2. Show the full URL at the address bar:

If you want to display the full URL to receive more information, you must enable this feature, because Safari only displays the domain in the address bar only.

Click Safari and then select Preferences , click on Advance . Then choose to select Show full website address to display the full URL.

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3. Using Reader View for every website:

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When reading documents on certain websites, when clicking the Reader icon, the website will be converted to a more readable format. If you want to apply the Reader View feature to every website that can access Safari, select Preferences , then select the Website tab . In the General section on the left, we can enable the automatic Reader feature for the open web page.

To turn on for other websites, at When visiting other websites press the On button .

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Thus this Reader feature will be applied to the entire web page on the Safari browser.

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4. Turn off the plugin on Safari to save battery:

Some plugins in the browser will affect the performance of the browser. It's best to turn off unused plugins and turn on only when you want.

Go to Safari and select Preferences , click on Advance, and check the Stop plugins to save power option .

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5. Block video mode automatically running on Safari:

When you visit some websites, you will see the video automatically enabled. If you do not want to watch it, you must either mute or disable it manually. We can disable automatic video playback on Safari.

Go to Safari and select Preferences , then click on the Websites tab and then select the Auto-Play setting to the left of the interface. Looking to the right, we can let the website play videos without sounding or block the video completely.

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6. Turn off notifications on the website:

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By default, some websites will display pop-ups asking if they want to receive notifications from this site. Most of us don't want to receive notifications from any particular website and turn them off. However, in addition to turning off such manual notifications, you can block notifications on the web browser.

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Go to Safari> Preferences> Websites , select to Notification settings. Then look to the right content to edit notifications on Safari. We can choose to allow (Allow) or stop (Deny) notifications for specific websites.

Or to turn off notifications completely on Safari, select to Allow websites to ask for permission to send push notifications .

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7. Turn on PIP mode on Safari:

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PIP or Picture-in-Picture will help users to watch videos and still be able to do other tasks. If a user wants to apply this feature to web browser video sites, then install the PiPifier application.

1. Download the PiPifier application

Then open Safari and click Preferences> Extensions . Find the PiPifier application just installed.

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In case you cannot find the application, you will have to access the Safari application and select Preferences> Advanced. Select the Show develop menu. Appears menun Develop, select Develop> Allow Unsigned extensions to agree to install PiPifier.

When a successful installation will appear a pop-out button in the toolbar. So when watching HTML5 video, just click this button to watch the video in PIP mode. You need to press play, pause the video before pressing the pop-out button.

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8. Using Quick Website Search:

When searching on the Safari browser, we can use some quick search tips on websites, such as Wikipedia.com + search content right in the address bar.

To find out which sites support it, go to Safari> Preferences> Search , click on Manage Websites to bring up the list.

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Above are some changes on macOS Safari browser, edit the default settings for more convenient browsing. With just a few changes like this, you can use Safari effectively, search faster.

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Hope this article is useful to you!