Customizing Safari’s Search Engine, Home Page, and Downloads

You can start using Safari right away without changing a thing. However, three settings you might want to modify are Safari’s default search engine, home page, and downloads folder. There are three search engines you can choose: Google, Bing, and Yahoo!. Search engines tend to retrieve different information, which is why some people prefer one search engine over another one.

The home page is the first web page that appears when you load Safari. Safari typically displays Apple’s own website as the default home page, but you might want to choose something different, such as your favorite news site.

When you download a file from the Internet, Safari stores that file in its default Downloads ...

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