Drop Down List Of Words In Safari 6
Safari
Hey
It was difficult to find a summarizing sentence for how cool this little trick is. In a nutshell, if you have a word in any Safari text box, such as the one used for searching on this site. When you press F5 a large list of words will appear, as shown in the image below.
Edit: It seems this trick works in all Cocoa apps. Should have checked that.
This is very useful if you have a good idea of the word you want but you can’t quite finish it.
From my limited amount of testing it will search using the letters before the cursor. For instance using the image above it has found every word it knows beginning with “ma”. This is because I hit F5 when the cursor was after the letter “a”. If the cursor is after the letter “c” it will find all words beginning if “mac” and so on.
Its very useful and I can see myself using this type of trick. I have tested this in Safari 3, I assume it is in the later version. If you know of any similar trick. Please leave a comment below.
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6 Responses to “Drop Down List Of Words In Safari”
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Cool feature, but on my PowerPC laptop F5 alone just controls the sound. Holding down first the “fn” key and then F5 does the trick. Thanks
Comment By Chuck on April 6th, at 8:34 pm
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It works in Safari 4, as well, but it also works in the following apps (that I have tested):
Mail
TextEdit
Pages
Things
Eventbox
Leech
Apps made by FluidI assume that it is a built-in apple feature that is implemented in MANY applications, but it could be that I have installed an add-on, though I do not remember doing so… I am using Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.6.
Comment By Brandon on April 6th, at 9:23 pm
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It’s a build in feature that works with any Cocoa app, and it also works when pressing the escape key instead in most cases.
Comment By MariusTh86 on April 6th, at 11:26 pm
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for Firefox i don’t need to press any key. as long as i have the input bar selected, it does that.
f5 controls sound for me, and fn+f5 reloads page.
Firefox… (O.O), 3 year old macbook, 1.8ghz, 2gb ram, 10.5.6
I liked 10.5.4 more tho cuz it ran faster
Comment By Exnay2100 on April 7th, at 9:12 am
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Grazie!
I don’t know this trick! ThanksComment By Denis on April 7th, at 4:12 pm
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Using Escape is definitely more convenient on a laptop as it means you don’t have to push the fn key.
Obviously Escape doesn’t work in the Safari’s Google search box as that just clears the search. In these cases you can use Option-Escape as well.
Comment By Matt on April 7th, at 6:44 pm