In this video, we’re going to take a look at what’s new in Safari with macOS Mojave. Let’s go to my Mac. Let’s go ahead and open up Safari. The first feature that we’re going to cover is we can now show website icons in tabs. If you’re not familiar with tabs, what we can do is we can have multiple websites open in one window, and we do this through tabs.

What I’m going to do is I’m going to go and create a new tab. We have a couple of different ways to do that. One way is to click on the plus here. When I click on the plus, we now have a new tab. I have this tab here, which is Apple’s website. Then I have this tab here, which right now is just set to my favorites. Let’s go and click on TripAdvisor. Now, I’m going to have a tab for Apple and a tab for TripAdvisor.

One of the things that Apple added is that we can add icons to this tab here, so we can easily see by just looking at the tab which website it is. To do that, what we do is we go up to our Safari preferences. I’m going to click on Safari here, and then I’m going to go over to preferences. Now, what we need to do is we need to look at our tabs. From here, you’re going to see a new option, show website icons in tabs. When I click on this, let’s go ahead and click on it, you’re going to see we now have an icon next to Apple. We go over to TripAdvisor. We can see TripAdvisor’s icon there.

Let’s go and bring this window to the front, so they’re not grayed out or in the background. I click on the window, and now, we can easily see that it’s TripAdvisor. Let’s go and open up another tab. I’m going to click on the plus here. This time, what we’re going to do is we’re going to go to Yahoo. When I click on Yahoo, we’re going to have a new tab that opens, and then you’re going to be able to see the icon. That’s one new feature that they added. We can now show icons in our tab bars.

The next feature we’re going to look at is pop-up windows. In the past, this was a global option. In other words, what we were able to do is block pop-up windows, but it blocked pop-up windows for every website. You either turned it on for all the websites or turned it off for all the websites. Well, now what we can do is we can turn it on and off for individual websites. As an example, I use Huntington Bank for my banking. When I want to download all of my transactions, it does it through a pop-up window. What I had to do in the past is I had to go and turn pop-up windows off in Safari and then download those transactions and then turn pop-up windows back on because I like to block pop up windows.

Well, now what we can do is we can turn this on and off individually for each website. To do that, we go up to Safari in the menu bar, and then we go over to our preferences. From here, what we need to do is we need to look at websites. This is where they moved our pop-up windows management. In past versions of Safari, it was located under security, and we just turned it on and off. Now again, it’s over in websites and now what we can do is we can click on this and turn it on and off for individual websites.

You’re going to see, I have one website here, apple.com. What I can do is I can set it to block and notify. Now, what it’s going to do is it’s going to block and notify me that it blocked a pop-up window. If I want to block them without being notified, I click on block here. Then if I want to allow pop-up windows, I would click on allow, and it would only allow pop-up windows from apple.com.

This is how I’m going to use it on my personal account on my Mac. I will have Huntington listed here, and I will go over to Huntington and say, allow. When I want to download any transactions, that’s going to open that up in a pop-up window, and I’m able to download them, but it will not turn it on for all of my other websites. Now, down in the bottom corner, you’re going to see we have when visiting other websites, this is going to be the default behavior.

Right now, if I go to a website, by default, what’s going to happen is it’s going to block and then notify me. When it blocks and informs me, what it does is, it adds it to this list here. Then what I’m able to do after that is go and modify for that particular website. Now with pop-up windows, we can block them on an individual site basis. We do this in the website tab and Safari preferences.

The last thing that they did is they just basically improved tracking prevention. You’re going to see under privacy here; we have website tracking. We have two options here. We can prevent cross-site tracking, and we can ask websites not to track me, but what they did is they improved how this all works in macOS Mojave.

That is what’s new in Safari in macOS Mojave.