Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mass Deployment

Launch Safari with Tabs

Safari, and the resulting tabbed browsing, can revolutionize the way you work with the web.  If you would like to keep the tabs in your browser, even if you don’t have a second tab (ie – if you’d like to test the size or look of your environment) then you can have the browser open with a single tab by default.  com.apple.Safari.plist has a number of settings that aren’t exposed in the graphical interface of Safari.  The AlwaysShowTabBar key can be used to set this behavior.  For example:

defaults write com.apple.Safari AlwaysShowTabBar -bool YES

You can undo this with:

defaults write com.apple.Safari AlwaysShowTabBar -bool NO