Tip 55Save Safari Tabs When Quitting

Each time Safari starts, it shows the home page (or whatever option you selected under the General tab within Preferences).

However, there’s another start-up mode, and I find it very useful indeed. It will automatically open the tabs (or web page if no tabs are in use) that were active the last time Safari quit. You can do this manually without changing any settings by clicking HistoryReopen All Windows From Last Session, and Safari automatically does this should it restart after crashing, but changing the following secret setting makes this an automatic choice upon every start-up of Safari.

Enabling Tab Memory Across Sessions

Quit Safari, open a Terminal window (open Finder, select the Applications list, ...

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