General pane of Safari preferences

Safari opens with

Choose how each Safari session starts: with a new window, a new private window, or all the windows from your last session.

This option isn’t shown if “Close windows when quitting an application” is turned off in the General pane of System Preferences.

New windows open with

Choose what a new Safari window contains.

• Top Sites: Thumbnails of the websites you’ve visited most often.

• Homepage: The homepage you set in the Homepage field below.

• Empty Page: An empty Safari window with no page address or content.

• Same Page: The webpage you most recently viewed.

• Tabs for Favorites bar: All the bookmarks in the Favorites bar as a set of tabs.

• Choose tabs folder: The bookmarks in the bookmarks folder you choose.

New tabs open with

Choose what a new tab contains.

• Favorites bar: All the bookmarks in the Favorites bar as a set of tabs.

• Homepage: The homepage you set in the Homepage field below.

• Empty Page: An empty Safari window with no page address or content.

• Same Page: The webpage you most recently viewed.

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 in Favorites view and the favorites list that appears below the address and search field.

Top Sites shows

Choose how many websites Top Sites shows.

Save downloaded files to

Choose where to save items you download from the Internet.

Remove download list items

Choose when to remove items from the list.

Open “safe” files after downloading

Have Safari automatically open the listed types of files, but not software.