Tabbed browsing — which rent you open multiple Web site in a single browser app windowpane — is a handy feature film . It ’s been useable in some Web browsers as far back as the mid-1990s ; Safari lastly add it in 2003 ( in Safari 2.0 ) . However , tabbed graze introduces a potential issue not found in one - Thomas Nelson Page - per - window browsers : the risk of incidentally close a windowpane with multiple tabloid when you really just wanted to close a particular tab — or by chance stop the browser app when you meant to but close a tab or windowpane . If you ’ve got ten Web land site open in a undivided window , and you accidentally flick on the window ’s crimson “ close ” button , or press Command+Q instead of Command+W , you ’ll lose all those tabs , with no way of life — short of racking your brain or weeding through your web browser app ’s history — of get them back .

Now , many browsers let in characteristic to facilitate prevent such a scenario . For example , some mechanically save opened tabs when you step down ; some just warn you before fold a window with multiple tabs . alas , Safari currently offers no such feature article . You close it , you fall behind it .

Back in May of 2005 , I write about Taboo , aSIMBLplug - in that modifies Safari so that whenever you endeavor to close a Safari windowpane , or quit Safari altogether , with multiple tabs open , a dialog pops up alerting you to this fact and asking if you ’re sure you really desire to perform the activity . But Jim Fowler ’s freeForgetMeNot 2.0 ( ) does Taboo one better . Also a SIMBL plug - in , ForgetMeNot actuallyremembersthe pill in a windowpane : If you throw in the towel Safari with multiple tabs opened , the next time you launch Safari , ForgetMeNot will mechanically furbish up those tabs . And if you step down Safari with multiple windows open , each with multiple tabs , the next time you launch Safari , ForgetMeNot will actuallly re - open up each windowpane , restoring each window ’s tabs .

What if you accidentally close a window with multiple tabs ? ForgetMeNot adds an Unclose Window detail to Safari ’s File menu — choosing this item opens a Modern windowpane and restores all the tabs in the windowpane you just close .

Unfortunately , ForgetMeNot ca n’t keep you from Safaricrashes ; in these casing , the next sentence you launch Safari , ForgetMeNot debase the yellow journalism that were undefendable the last clip you closed a Safari window or quit Safari commonly .

I also have the same complaint about ForgetMeNot that I had about tabu , relating to the software program ’s installer . The SIMBL system , used by many Safari fire hydrant - ins , work via Mac OS X ’s InputManager organization . This think of that you should be able to set up SIMBL and its plug - ins in either /Library ( which would make its functionality useable to all users on your Mac ) or ~/Library ( which would restrict it to your own account ) . However , the ForgetMetNot installer package does n’t give you this option — it simply deploy the software in /Library . As I mention in my review of Taboo :

As a answer , I recommend that after installing ForgetMeNot , you move its software from /Library ( the Library booklet at the root level of your hard drive ) to ~/Library ( the Library booklet in your home plate folder ) . First , move the SIMBL folder from /Library / InputManagers to ~/Library / InputManagers . Second , move the ForgetMeNot.bundle Indian file from /Library / program Support / SIMBL / Plugins to ~/Library / program Support / SIMBL / Plugins . ( If either of these folders does n’t exist , you may make it yourself . ) notice that if you want to use ForgetMeNot in multiple accounts , you ’ll need to copy these folder to the appropriate localisation in each user ’s nursing home folder . Also note that if you ’re using any other SIMBL plug - ins ( iCar , PathFinderHack , PithHelmet , TerminalColors , etc . ) , you may need to make the same changes for them . I realise this is a hassle , but at least it ’s a one - meter hassle .

Sure , you could get functionality similar to ForgetMeNot by switching to a web web browser such as Camino or Firefox , but some the great unwashed prefer Safari — for those people , ForgetMeNot is a welcome MBD - on .

ForgetMeNot work with Mac OS X 10.4 ( Tiger ) .