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Change General preferences in Safari on Mac
In the Safari app on your Mac, use General preferences to choose the page that appears when you open a new window or tab, to choose how to handle downloads, and more. To change these preferences, choose Safari > Preferences, then click General.
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Safari opens with | Choose how each Safari session starts: with a new window, a new private window, all the windows from your last session, or all the non-private windows from your last session. This option is shown only if “Close windows when quitting an app” is selected in the General pane of System Preferences. | ||||||||||
New windows open with | Choose what a new Safari window contains.
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New tabs open with | Choose what a new tab contains.
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Homepage | Enter the URL of the webpage you want to use as your homepage, or click Set to Current Page to use the current active page. | ||||||||||
Remove history items | Choose when to remove items from the history. | ||||||||||
Favorites shows | Choose the bookmarks folder whose bookmarks you want shown on the start page and in the start page view that appears below the Smart Search field. | ||||||||||
File download location | Choose where to save items you download from the internet, or have Safari always ask where you want to save downloads. | ||||||||||
Remove download list items | Choose when to remove items from the list. | ||||||||||
Open “safe” files after downloading | In Safari, automatically open the listed types of files, but not software. |