Customizing the Browser Window Toolbar  
 

The navigation toolbar at the top of the browser window can be customized to suit your needs and tastes. When you choose Customize Toolbar... from the Browser menu, a sheet will open containing buttons and other items you can add by dragging them into the toolbar. While the customization sheet is open, you can rearrange items on the toolbar by dragging them around or remove items by dragging them out.

You can further customize your browser window using the items in the BrowserBrowser Toolbars sumbenu. The navigation bar (the one full of buttons), the location bar (an optional separate bar for the address field), and the Favorites bar can all be individually hidden or shown.

Browser Window Toolbar items


Go Back

Returns you to the last web page you viewed.


Go Forward

After you've used the Back button, clicking this item takes you forward again (to where you were before clicking Back).


Go to Start Page

Takes you to the Start Page specified in General Preferences.


Reload Page

Refetches the page you're viewing from the server or disk.


Stop Load

Click this item to abort the loading of a page and any inline images or other media.


Add to Bookmarks

Adds the URL of the current page to your personal bookmarks.


Show Bookmarks

Shows your personal bookmarks in a window or drawer, as specified in Bookmark Preferences. (Clicking this item while holding the Option key will temporarily reverse your preference.)


Show History

Shows the History drawer, so you can see where you've been.


View HTML Source

Opens the current page in the HTML Source Editor.


View Links

Opens the current page as a bookmarks window. Essentially, this reduces a Web page to just a list of double-clickable links, hiding all the formatting and images -- which can be quite useful for some pages.


Show Info

Shows the Info window so you can see (and edit) detailed information about the current page (Document Info) or selected bookmark (Bookmark Info).


Downloads Panel

Shows the Recent Downloads panel so you can monitor the progress of files you're downloading to disk.


Find on Page

Opens the Find Panel for searching for text in the current page.


Load Images

If any inline images in the current page haven't been loaded, clicking this item will load them all.


AutoFill Form

If the current page contains a form, clicking this item will fill it out according to the information in AutoFill Preferences.


Smaller Text

Click to decrease the size of text in the browser.


Bigger Text

Click to increase the size of text in the browser.


Print

Click this item to open the Print panel for printing the current page.


Character Encoding

This item allows you to change the character encoding used to display the current page. See Working with Character Encodings for more information.


Address Field

This item shows the URL of the page you're currently viewing (both as text and as a draggable icon), and allows you to go to other pages by typing their URLs.

If you remove this item from the toolbar, it will appear on a location bar which can be hidden and shown separately.


Status Indicator

This item displays an animation to indicate that a web page is in the process of being loaded. When the page is done loading, the item stops animating. Click the item to show detailed information about loading processes in the Network Activity Monitor.

If this item isn't on the navigation toolbar, it will appear on the separate location bar.


Separator

Put this item between two others to visually separate them.


Space

Or put this item between two others to visually separate them.


Flexible Space

This item is like the Space item, but it expands to fill all available space on the toolbar -- so if you put any items to the right of it, they'll stick to the right-side edge of the toolbar.


Customize

Click this item to open the toolbar customization sheet.


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