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Like many applications, Safari lets you tweak its interface to suit your preferences. You can customize, hide, or show the toolbar, bookmarks bar, favorites bar, tab bar, and status bar. Configuring these Safari interface bars to suit the way you use the browser can save you time and effort.

The toolbar runs across the top of the Safari screen, where the address area is. Here's how to add and remove items to your liking.

From the View menu, select Customize Toolbar .

Select an item you want to add to the toolbar and drag it to the toolbar. Safari will automatically adjust the size of the address and search fields to make room for the new item(s). When you finish, choose Done .

Try adding iCloud Tabs to easily continue browsing sites right where you left off when using other Apple devices. Select Text Size to add the capability to change the size of text on a page quickly.

Alternatively, right-click in an open space in the toolbar and select Customize Toolbar .

You can adjust a couple of other things very quickly, too:

• Rearrange icons in the toolbar by clicking and dragging them to a new location.
• Delete an item from the toolbar by right-clicking it and selecting Remove Item from the pop-up menu.

If you get carried away with customizing the toolbar, and you're not happy with the result, it's easy to return to the default toolbar.

Click and drag the default toolbar set from the bottom of the window to the toolbar.

Click Done .

Safari Favorites Shortcuts

Apple changed the name of the bar from bookmarks to Favorites with the release of OS X Mavericks . No matter what you call the bar, it's a handy place to store links to favorite websites.

Hide or Show the Bookmarks or Favorites Bar 

If you don't use the Favorites bar or want to gain a little screen real estate, you can close the bar. Simply select View > Hide Favorites Bar ( or Hide Favorites Bar , depending on the version of Safari you are using).

If you change your mind and decide you miss the bookmarks bar, go to the View menu and select Show Bookmarks Bar or Show Favorites bar.

In OS X Yosemite and later: Web page titles no longer appear in the toolbar area of the Safari browser if you have the tab bar hidden. Displaying the Tab Bar allows you to see the current page title, even if you don't use tabs.

Like other browsers, Safari supports tabbed browsing , which lets you have multiple pages open without having multiple browser windows open.

If you open a webpage in a new tab, Safari will automatically show the tab bar. If you want the tab bar always to be visible, even if you only have a single web page open, select View > Show Tab Bar .

To hide the tab bar, select View > Hide Tab Bar .

If you have more than one page open in a tab, you'll need to close the tabs before you can hide the tab bar. Click or tap the Close button (the little "X") in a tab to close it.

The status bar displays at the bottom of the Safari window. If you let your mouse hover over a link on a web page, the status bar will show the URL for that link, so you can see where you're going before you click the link. In most cases, this isn't important, but sometimes it's nice to check a URL before you go to the page, especially if the link is sending you to a different website.

• To display the status bar, select View > Show Status Bar .
• To hide the status bar, select View > Hide Status Bar .

Experiment with the Safari toolbar, favorites, tab, and status bars to find what works best for you. Generally, you'll find that having all the bars visible is most helpful, but if you need to maximize your viewing area, closing one or all is always an option.

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Do you use Safari to browse the web regularly on your Mac? If so, you’ll be excited to know that you can customize Safari’s toolbar just the way you want by adding or removing certain items from it.

Safari is the default web browser on macOS devices and it’s widely used by Mac users, over Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera etc. By default, Safari features buttons to go back/forward, view sidebar, share, tab overview, and of course the address and search bar. However, this can be completely changed according to the features you mostly use. For example, you can add a bookmarks option to the toolbar. Or perhaps, a print option if you often print pages from the web.

If you’re interested in changing the Safari Toolbar to better suit your web browsing, read on to learn how to customize it on the Mac.

Changing your Safari toolbar functionality is a lot easier than you may think. Just follow the steps below to interchange the items that show up in the toolbar.

There you have it, you have customized the Safari toolbar on your Mac.

Apart from adding items to the Safari toolbar, you can also customize your browser window with Favorites bar, Tab bar, and Status bar. To add them, simply click on “View” in the menu bar and choose to show these bars from the dropdown menu.

Another handy trick for many users, particularly advanced web users, is to make Safari show the full URL of website addresses , so that you can see the complete link of any site you’re browsing.

You can also customize the Safari Start Page if you’d like to.

Furthermore, you can take advantage of various keyboard shortcuts to quickly show or hide bookmarks, reading lists, and status bars in Safari too. If you aren’t familiar with Safari’s keyboard shortcuts, you can see some handy ones here , and you’ll also be able to find them in the dropdown menu of various options in the menu bar.

It’s worth mentioning that the ability to customize the toolbar has been in Safari for a very long time, so it does not matter which version of macOS (or Mac OS X) you’re using, the feature will be there. Some particular features are specific to newer Mac OS versions however, like the privacy report .

Did you customize the toolbar in Safari for Mac? Or do you think it’s perfect as it is by default? Share your thoughts, opinions, tips, advice, or whatever else is relevant and on your mind in the comments.

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Mac: How to customize your Safari toolbar

Whether you’re new to Mac or it’s been a while since you’ve adjusted the toolbar in Safari, follow along below for how to customize yours.

Having your Safari toolbar dialed in to best suit your needs makes for a more efficient and pleasant browsing experience. We’ll also look at how to reset the toolbar to the default setting if you’d like to start fresh.

The toolbar doesn’t take more than a minute or two to curate, so let’s get to it 😄.

• Open Safari
• Click  View at the top of your screen in the menu bar
• Select  Customize Toolbar…
• Drag and drop items into your toolbar as you’d like

To remove items, you can drag them out of the toolbar and let go.

You can also return your toolbar to the Safari default by dragging that option from the bottom the toolbar customization window as shown below.

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• Rearrange, hide, or remove cluttered menu bar icons on your Mac by holding the Command key and dragging them.
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Your Mac's menu bar can be home to all kinds of useful shortcuts and quick actions. But if it's overstuffed with icons, you might prefer to rearrange, hide, or remove some of them instead. Here's how to customize the menu bar to your liking.

There's a good chance if you're reading this you already know what the menu bar is, but just in case you don't: the menu bar is the list of icons that appears in the top-right corner of your Mac screen, next to the time.

macOS and third-party apps will place icons here for quick access, which can be genuinely useful. Unfortunately, that utility can be hampered when there's too much on screen at once. On top of this, it looks cluttered and unsightly sometimes, making it harder to quickly find the icons you actually use.

You can rearrange almost any menu bar icon by holding the Command key and then clicking and dragging. There are a few limitations to this. For example, you can't click and drag the time and date, you can't move Control Center, and if you have the Siri menu bar icon enabled you can't move that one either.

There's a quick way to remove some icons from your menu bar, and it's identical to removing icons from your Mac dock : hold Command, click and drag the icon out of the menu bar until you see an "X" appear, then release your mouse button.

Some icons can't be dragged and will need to be disabled from the settings instead. Head to System Settings > Control Center to see a list of all the available options. Change "Show in Menu Bar" to "Don't Show in Menu Bar" to remove those you don't want.

Some redundant icons you might want to remove include the Spotlight search magnifying glass (you can trigger it with Command+Space), Siri (trigger it with "Hey Siri" or hold F5), and VPN icons (especially if you use a proprietary VPN client). You can always add icons back using this menu.

While here, you may want to enable the battery percentage readout alongside the "Battery" module, which makes the icon far more useful.

Disable Third-Party Menu Bar Icons From the App

You can't get rid of third-party app icons using the Command and drag method. The easiest way to get rid of these is to change the setting that enables them within the associated app. Some apps, like ExpressVPN, let you decide whether to show an icon in the dock, in the menu bar, or both.

Sometimes, the icon that appears in the menu bar is a background process. You can get rid of Mac background processes from System Settings > General > Login Items, under the "Allow in the Background" section. At other times, it's an app that started up when your computer booted, which you'll find under the "Open at Login" section of the same menu.

Some apps seem to always show an icon when in use, and there's not a lot you can do about this. Evernote, for example, places a Quick Note shortcut in the menu bar with no option to turn it off. You'll either have to replace Evernote with a better note-taking app or hide it using a third-party application, like Bartender or Hidden Bar.

Hide Menu Bar Icons with Third-Party Apps

Sometimes, the only solution is to temporarily hide icons, so that you don't have to look at them all the time. This is also a good option if you want to keep the icon around, just in case you need it.

Bartender is a $16 app with a four-week trial built around this concept. By default, Bartender places a small ellipsis (…) to the left of your menu bar. Hold Command then click and drag icons to the left of this icon to hide them. Reveal and access your hidden icons by simply clicking on the ellipsis. They'll disappear again when you take your cursor away.

Bartender includes a lot of other features as well, like the ability to display icons on a separate bar, create customizable behaviors for hiding icons, customize the menu bar with colors and borders, and use deployable presets, triggers, hotkeys, and more.

Hidden Bar is a lightweight, free app that performs the same basic task in roughly the same way. It's available as a download from Github . The app uses a trigger arrow and a spacer to divide apps. Move apps to one side of the spacer, then use the arrow to expand or contract the menu bar.

macOS also lets you customize the date and time display in the top-right corner of the screen. Head to System Settings > Control Center > Clock and click "Clock Options…" to open a new settings panel for this.

Here you can choose to display the date and day of the week, switch between analog and digital styles, use a 24-hour clock, flash the time separators, show seconds, and choose whether to announce the time and how often the announcements happen.

To edit the name that appears, head to System Settings > Control Center and find the "Fast User Switching" section. Using the "Show in Menu Bar" drop-down, you can choose to hide your name, show your full name, show your account name, or just show the Fast User Switching icon. If space is tight, hiding your name is a good idea.

Now that you've made some space in the menu bar, it's time to fill it with more useful icons. You'll find some of these under System Settings > Control Center, including a Now Playing icon, which works for apps like Music, Spotify, and even Safari web pages.

Shortcuts lets you build time-saving workflows that can work on both mobile platforms and macOS. One of the most useful ways to use Shortcuts on your Mac is via the menu bar. To display the icon, you'll need to make sure that Shortcuts can be triggered using the menu bar .

Lastly, some third-party apps live in your menu bar to make life easier. These include clipboard managers like the free and open-source Maccy , bandwidth manager TripMode , free sleep-preventative Amphetamine , and system status monitor iStat Menus .

You've probably realized by now, but the most useful icons are in Control Center, which cannot be moved or removed. This is good, because you no longer need to display Wi-Fi or battery information in the menu bar, since it lives in the Control Center instead.

Head to System Settings > Control Center to customize what's shown. Most items can't be removed, but there are some options under the "Other Modules" you can tweak.

Many controls are nested within their respective sections in Control Center. For example, you'll find Dark Mode and Night Shift toggles under "Display" and controls for sound output as well as AirPods transparency mode or noise cancelation options under Sound.

A well-organized menu bar shows information like the time and your battery levels at a glance, while providing fast access to apps you use a lot like a VPN or your clipboard history. Removing distractions from the menu bar can help you better focus on the task at hand.

Want to be even more focused on your Mac? Give the macOS background sounds feature a shot , try out the Pomodoro Technique , and block distracting websites altogether.

Top 6 Ways to Customize Safari on Mac

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With macOS Big Sur and Monterey, Apple positions Safari as the true alternative to Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge . With each iteration of macOS, Apple adds a good amount of new features and customization options to Safari on Mac. Here are the top six ways to customize Safari like a pro on Mac.

Not everyone is a fan of Safari’s new tab management, boring white background, or a simple home screen. With Safari’s personalization options, you can easily tune the Safari experience to your liking. Follow the methods below and make necessary changes to the Safari browser to make it truly yours.

1. Try New Tab Design

With macOS Monterey, Apple is offering a different way to organize your tabs. You can either keep your tabs separate (the default option) or use the compact layout.

Step 1: Open Safari on Mac and click on Safari name in the menu bar.

Step 2: Go to Safari Preferences.

Step 3: From the Tabs menu, select Compact.

You will quickly see the current tabs changing the position to the top with extensions and other items. This is useful for those who want to utilize more space in Safari on Mac.

As for us, we find it quite a busy arrangement when dealing with dozens of tabs, so we moved back to the Separate option.

2. Enable Color in Tab Bar

This is yet another addition Apple added with the macOS Monterey update. You can now enable color in the tab bar. Safari will extract color from the website and show it across the tab bar.

Step 1: Open the Safari Preferences menu.

Step 2: Go to Tabs.

Step 3: Enable Show color in tab bar option.

Again, when you have multiple tabs opened in Safari and are switching among them, you might have a hard time constantly changing colors in Safari tabs. From the same menu, you can revert to the previous method.

3. Customize Toolbar

This is one of the oldest methods to customize the Safari experience on Mac. Open Safari and right-click on a space in the top space. Select Customize Toolbar, and it will open a dedicated toolbar menu.

You can use the toolbar menu to drag and drop relevant functions to the toolbar. Users can even add Flexible space to the Safari toolbar.

We mostly keep the extensions from the left side of the address bar and the Download, Share and Add Tab on the right side.

4. Apply Background Wallpaper

Introduced with macOS Big Sur, Apple allows you to change the default background in the Safari start page. Follow the steps below to change wallpaper in Safari on Mac.

Step 1: Open Safari and click on the hamburger menu at the bottom.

Step 2: Use the scroll bar at the bottom and glance over the default wallpapers to apply in Safari.

Step 3: If you are not satisfied with Apple’s built-in wallpapers, you can click on the + icon and apply a wallpaper from the Mac storage.

Make sure you don’t end up using a funky wallpaper that makes it difficult for you to read text on the Safari home page.

5. Enable iCloud Tabs

This is useful for those switching between Apple devices frequently. If you have Safari tabs opened on iPhone or iPad, you can easily access them from the Safari home page on Mac without going into the History.

Step 1: Go to Safari and click on the hamburger menu at the bottom.

Step 2: Enable iCloud tabs, and you will see the Safari tabs appearing on the home.

From the same menu, you can enable Privacy Report as well. Privacy report states the amount of harmful trackers Safari is blocking during your browsing sessions.

6. Change Search Engine

By default, Safari uses Google to answer your queries. However, Safari isn’t limited to Google only. You can easily change it to Yahoo or DuckDuckGo from the Preferences menu. Here’s how.

Step 1: Open Safari on Mac.

Step 2: Use command + , keys and open the preferences menu.

Step 3: Go to Search.

Step 4: Select the Search engine.

Step 5: You can change from Google to Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or Ecosia.

If you are not satisfied with the new search engine, you can always go back to Google from the same menu.

Personalize Safari Experience on Mac

Users can also go ahead and uninstall Safari extensions on Mac. Safari remains our top choice to browse the web on the Mac. If you miss your favorite Chromium extensions, you can consider checking out Chrome or Edge on the Mac . We recommend going with Safari and making relevant changes based on your preferences for the rest of the crowd.

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How to turn on and edit the Favorites bar in Safari

A few weeks ago, I received a panicked call from my sister. "My Favorites are gone! I don't know where they went and I don't know how to get them back." The favorites in question weren't Instagram likes or Twitter stars — no, her new work Mac had come with its Bookmarks favorites bar disabled.

It's not uncommon to see this in new OS X Yosemite Macs; Safari's default view sports as few buttons and switches as possible, so as to immerse yourself in the Web browsing experience. But it's an easy fix to reenable the Favorites bar and even edit it.

How to turn on and edit the Bookmarks bar in Safari

Turning the Bookmarks or Favorites bar on is a relatively simple process.

• Open Safari .
• Select the View menu
• Find Show Favorites Bar

(If you like keyboard shortcuts, you can also use Command-Shift-B to show or hide the bar.)

How to add new sites to your Favorites bar in Safari

Once your Favorites bar is visible, there several ways to add new sites and folders to it.

The easiest way to add a website is to drag its icon from the status bar to the Favorites bar; you'll see a green plus button to let you know it's safe to drop it onto the bar.

You can also add or edit favorites by doing the following:

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• Click on the Sidebar icon in the upper left corner of Safari.
• Select the bookmarks icon .
• Open the Favorites section by clicking on the arrow.
• Click Edit .

Inside the Bookmarks editing screen, you can add folders to group bookmarks together, or simply drag bookmarks from their current location into the Favorites toolbar.

How to quickly edit your Favorites bar in Safari

If you'd prefer not to launch the full Favorites editor, you can tweak your favorites in a few different ways.

Rename them or their website: Want a different name for your new bookmark or need to update the address? Control-click (or right click) on a bookmark in the Favorites bar and select Rename Bookmark or Edit Address .

Delete: Don't want a bookmark on your Favorites bar anymore? Just drag it off the toolbar and it'll disappear in a cloud of pixel smoke.

Copy for later: Need to share an address with someone? Control-click on a bookmark and select Copy to save it to your clipboard.

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Safari 15 for macOS now available: New macOS tabs will transform your workflow

Tabs are a major user interface element in Safari for macOS—we use them all the time, but they become unwieldly and hard to manage. Apple hopes to address those problems in Safari 15 with a new tab implementation and features.

Safari 15 is officially available now and will be in the upcoming macOS Monterey. To download it in macOS Bug Sur, click on the Apple menu > About This Mac , and then in the Overview section, click the Software Update button. Once it’s installed, you can give the tabs features a try. Here’s how tabs work in Safari 15 and how to make tab groups.

Safari’s toolbar can take on the color used by a website.

Apple changed the way tabs are displayed in Safari 15. Previously, the new tab you created appeared below the Address/Search box and the Favorites Bar. Now tabs occupy the space of the Address/Search box, which allows a bit more of a webpage to show on the screen. A nice design touch in Safari 15 is that the toolbar can take on the color of a website. It’s a subtle way to let you know what site you are on, which can be helpful if you have several tabs open.

This new UI is on by default, but you do have the option to switch to a more familiar design , where the Address/Search box stays put in the middle and the tabs appear below it. Go to View  >  Show Separate Tab Bar and Safari will revert back.

You hve the option to change how tabs are displayed in Safari 15.

Tab groups: The basics

Web research can involve visiting several websites, and sometimes you have a bunch of websites open in tabs, each one relevant to what you’re doing. In Safari 15, you can now save groups of those tabs together as a “tab group” and open that set of tabs whenever you want. For example, if you have a set of websites you like to visit for planning a vacation, you can save that set of sites as a tab group, and open that set when it’s time to plan your next trip.  

To  create a tab group , set up Safari so the sites you want in the group are open in a tab. Click on the  File menu, and then select  New Tab Group with x Tabs  (the “x” will be the number of tabs currently open). 

Another way to create a tab group is to find the Show Sidebar icon on the upper right and click on the down arrow to the right. A pop-up menu will appear and you can select  New Tab Group with x Tabs.

To  add a tab  to a tab group, just open a new tab and go to the site you want. To  delete a tab  from a tab group, open the tab group, and then close the tab. All the changes are automatically saved to the group.

You can also  create an empty tab group , which will have no tabs at the start. Then, any tabs you create are automatically saved in the group. You can create an empty tab group through  File > New Empty Tab Group , or by pressing Control+Command+N, or by clicking the down arrow icon to the right of the Show Sidebar icon and selecting  New Empty Tab Group.

Tab groups: Organizing and syncing

To  open a tab group , click on the down arrow icon to the right of the Show Sidebar icon. In the menu that appears, your tab groups are listed in the middle section. Click on the group that you want to open it.

You can also open a tab group through the Sidebar. Open the Sidebar by clicking the Show Sidebar in the upper left, or through  File > Show Sidebar , or by pressing Shift+Command+L. In the Sidebar you’ll find a section called Tab Groups. To  open   a tab group , click on one and the tabs will open in the main window.

To see  thumbnails of the tabs , click on the icon of four squares to the right of the tab group’s name. Or right-click the tab group and select  Show Tab Overview .

You can view thumbnails of the tabs in a tab group.

To  rename   a tab group , click on tab group to select it, then click on the name to trigger the ability to rename it. Or right-click the tab group and select  Rename .

To  delete   a tab group , right-click it and select  Delete . Or click on it to select it, and then click on the  File  menu and select  Delete Tab Group .

If you  right-click  on a tab group, you have a couple more useful functions other than the ones previously mentioned.

• Copy Links:  When you select this, A bulleted, hyperlinked list is created on your clipboard. When you paste it, the tab group name appears at the list’s title, and then each bulleted item is the hyperlinked title of each tab.
• At the bottom of right-click menu is a  list of the sites  in each tab. You can select one and it will load in the main window.

Tab groups  sync across devices , so you can use them on your iPhone, iPad, or other Macs.

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How to add LastPass to your Safari browser's toolbar to better manage your login information

• You can easily add LastPass to your Safari toolbar to manage myriad login information with one master password. 
• Note that you'll have to download LastPass through the company's website, as the LastPass version available in the Mac's App Store won't allow you to add LastPass to the Safari toolbar.
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Using lots of passwords is a necessary evil when it comes to your online security hygiene.

Fortunately, free programs such as LastPass provide crucial assistance: The password manager creates encrypted passwords for any login credentials you choose to add. You'll only have to recall your LastPass master password. 

Best of all, Safari users can add LastPass to their Mac toolbar when browsing, with the LastPass toolbar extension for Safari. Here's how to add LastPass to the Safari toolbar. 

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1. Open Safari on your computer and Navigate to the LassPass downloads page at lastpass.com/misc_download2.php . (Note that the version of LastPass downloaded from Mac's App Store won't allow you to add LastPass to the Safari toolbar.)

2. LastPass will automatically detect that you're using a Mac. Find LastPass for Safari and click "Download."

3. Open the application downloader. It will be called LastPass.dmg.

4. Drag LastPass into the Applications folder. 

5. Click "Replace" if your Mac prompts you that a version of LastPass already exists.

6. Open LastPass when the download is complete and sign in.

7. Open Safari, and in the topline menu bar in your Mac tap Safari (next to the Apple symbol), and then select "Preferences."

8. Enable LastPass permissions in your Mac's Extensions settings, if they haven't been already.

You're all set! Now when you browse Safari you can access LassPass with one click on the ellipsis icon, to the left of the address bar.

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• Main content

Safari User Guide

• Get started
• Go to a website
• Bookmark webpages to revisit
• See your favorite websites
• Use tabs for webpages
• Import bookmarks and passwords
• Pay with Apple Pay
• Autofill credit card info
• View links from friends
• Keep a Reading List
• Hide ads when reading
• Translate a webpage
• Download items from the web
• Add passes to Wallet
• Save part or all of a webpage
• Print or create a PDF of a webpage
• Interact with text in a picture
• Change your homepage
• Customize a start page
• Create a profile
• Block pop-ups
• Make Safari your default web browser
• Hide your email address
• Manage cookies
• Clear your browsing history
• Browse privately
• Prevent cross-site tracking
• See who tried to track you
• Change Safari settings
• Keyboard and other shortcuts

Turn a website into an app in Safari on Mac

You can open and use a website as if it’s an app.

Open Safari for me

An icon for the web app is added to the Dock and Launchpad . If you were signed in to the website, you’re automatically signed in to the web app in most cases. Your user name and password remain the same.

The web app has a simplified toolbar, and you can receive notifications from the web app just like you would from any app.

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Safari 16.2: Toolbar not working, Customize Toolbar pop-up also does not appear

Safari 16.2 - toolbar icons do nothing, cannot edit or change url, and the pop-up after clicking "Customize Toolbar" does not appear, has vanished! Any thoughts? Thank you in advance!

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Posted on Jan 22, 2023 12:14 PM

Posted on Mar 3, 2023 7:19 PM

I'm having a similar problem, started a couple of days ago. The search field is missing, and when I right-click and choose "Customize Toolbar" or View > Customize toolbar the icons in the toolbar wiggle and can be dragged, but the pop-in menu that allows you to configure the toolbar by dragging elements into place does not appear. The only way to get out of the "wiggling icon" state is to close the browser window and open a new one.

The search field was visible as an outline, until I dragged it off the toolbar, at which time it disappeared. However, even when the outline was visible in customize mode, it did not appear in the toolbar when using it normally.

I created another account (with admin privileges) and logged in, and Safari worked as expected. So it must be something with the local configuration.

Any thoughts would be helpful, thanks!

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Mar 3, 2023 7:19 PM in response to ShannonM1

Jan 24, 2023 3:01 PM in response to PJG-NoCty1

Hello PJG-NoCty1,

Let's use safe mode to see if this is specific to your user account or if it occurs throughout the system. That'll let us know where the problem may lie. Here's how to access safe mode on your Mac, which limits the system to only main functions and disabled third-party add ons. How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support

Let us know how Safari acts there and we'll base our next steps off of that behavior.

Apr 4, 2023 6:17 AM in response to ksparker123

Same problem! Did anyone find a fix for this?