Supplement Safari

If you like Safari generally and want to continue using it as your main browser, but find the lack of tabbed browsing and/or offline viewing inconvenient for the way you use the Web, one potential solution is to do your searches and casual browsing in Safari, but use a different app to store the pages you want to return to later, whether online or offline.

Two apps in particular—Evernote and Instapaper—spring to mind as offering this functionality, and they can each work in a similar way: while in Safari, you use a bookmarklet (a special link containing JavaScript code) that you've stored in your bookmarks list or—better yet—on your Bookmarks Bar to send some or all of the page to a server. Then, the next time you open the app, ...

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