Seven 9s and 10s

High-res That’s a fair question and it was the first thing I tried to do to solve this problem. The reason it doesn’t work is because in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts, you define an application, and then you assign a shortcut to a specifically titled Menu item.  So you could, for example, set “Command+1” to trigger “Select Previous Tab” and “Command+2” to trigger “Select Next Tab,” but that doesn’t solve my problem because I’m not trying to cycle through the tabs, I’m trying to target specific tabs. In order for it to work the way I want, and the way Firefox/Chrome behave, Safari would need to have menu items that say specifically: “Select The First Tab,” “Select The Second Tab,” etc., but obviously that’s just ridiculous and it will never be that way.

That’s a fair question and it was the first thing I tried to do to solve this problem.

The reason it doesn’t work is because in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts, you define an application, and then you assign a shortcut to a specifically titled Menu item.  So you could, for example, set “Command+1” to trigger “Select Previous Tab” and “Command+2” to trigger “Select Next Tab,” but that doesn’t solve my problem because I’m not trying to cycle through the tabs, I’m trying to target specific tabs.

In order for it to work the way I want, and the way Firefox/Chrome behave, Safari would need to have menu items that say specifically: “Select The First Tab,” “Select The Second Tab,” etc., but obviously that’s just ridiculous and it will never be that way.

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  1. nilszero said: Kudos for the reply to the reply.
  2. yodelmachine said: I’ve found I just have to remember to hit “tab command x” instead of just command x to avoid the type size problem. But I usually forget and end up with huge text anyway. ANNOYING!
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