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screenshot of Safari preferences window. The Tabs tab is selected. A red rectangle highlights the checkbox that is used to indicate the feature in this post.

Safari Command Key Shortcuts for Favorites

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Dan LaSota
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It used to be, way back when before the time of OS X “El Capitan”, v10.11 and Safari browser version 9.0, that you could assign command key equivalents to web pages. This is one of those “I must have it” features I used all the time. Cmnd-1 was assigned to my calendar. I look at my calendar dozens of times a day.

With the new OS X/Safari versions which I upgraded to on October 1, my command key short cut went away. I searched for answers and solutions to this more than I’d like to admit.

Not much is out there at the moment.

Then I took a peek  into Safari’s Preferences. The “Tabs” tab:

screenshot of Safari preferences window. The Tabs tab is selected. A red rectangle highlights the checkbox that is used to indicate the feature in this post.
With v9.0 of Safari, under OS X El Capitan, The “Use Command Keys” is selected by default.

I drew a red rectangle around the checkbox which by default is checked with version 9 of Safari. This lets you bring tabs one through nine to the forefront of your browser window. Once I unchecked this box, my command key shortcuts activated the items in my Favorites menu, just like I had before.

I’m hoping that Apple doesn’t fiddle with this anymore.