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Safari users you may find this tip to be particularly useful if you need to access the same websites regularly. For example, lets assume you need to check your WebEX office daily, your web-based email account, and Twitter. You could bookmark them, or you could even create a quick webpage and list your links. But wouldn’t it be nice to click one button and have all of your desired websites open at the same time in multiple tabs? Here’s how you can make this happen.

Step 1
Open Safari, and make sure you have already bookmarked websites you want to automatically open.

Step 2
Click on Bookmarks>Show All Bookmarks

Step 3
Click on “Bookmarks Bar” which is found under “Collections” (left column at the top)

Step 4
The right column (bottom row) is a pane called “Bookmark”. Click your mouse into that pane and create a folder called “Opener” (you can name it anything you want so long as you understand its contents). You can create a new folder by clicking the plus sign at the bottom of the pane.

Step 5
Next drag any bookmarks you want to have automatically opened into the folder you just created.

Step 6
Click the check box under Auto-Click next to your opener folder.

Step 7
Drag the opener folder to the top of the list in the bookmark window so that it will appear first on your bookmarks bar.

The bookmark bar should now display the new folder name. Click it and all of your favorite websites will open simultaneously in multiple tabs so that you can easily move between tabs/websites without needing to navigate to a bookmark.