Safari and multiple desktops?

This is the scenario...
1) Safari's window is running on Desktop A.
2) There is another Desktop B.
How do I start another Safari window on Desktop B?
When I go to Desktop B and start another Safari window, it is opened on the Desktop A. I know I can move it then to Desktop B but that is an extra step.
Thank you!

Uncheck this preference:
 > System Preferences > Mission Control > 'When Switiching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application'

Similar Messages

Webex and multiple desktops

I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to set your Macbook so that when you use Webex and share your desktop you can broadcast any number of the multiple desktops on the Mac. Yesterday I found myself needing to share my desktop on a Webex. Everything that was displayed on my main screen, which is where the webex application was running from, displayed correctly. But when I switched to another desktop on the Mac (to show something in Parallels) everyone said the broadcast went black. Is this just how it is, that webex can only transmit from one desktop? Or do I have something configured incorrectly?
Thanks in advance.

I have the same problem and have not been able to find a solution. Even trying to move the webex to a 2nd montitor connected to the Mac doesn't work. You have to be on the MacBook Pro Laptop Display and Desktop 1 only.
Would love to find an update to this.

I can not open my Safari and my desktop is reshaped!

It is so strange. After updating my software I could not open my safari and the design of my icons has been changed. I do not know what to do. please help.

pariyafromcoventry wrote:
"It is so strange. After updating my software I could not open my safari and the design of my icons has been changed. I do not know what to do. please help."
Did you upgrade OS X to OS X 10.10. Yosemite?
This is the new default flat look. That is normal.
Safari:
If you have another browser:
     Use free AdwareMedic by clicking “Download ” from here
     http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php
     Install , open, and run it by clicking “Scan for Adware” button   to remove adware.
     Once done, quit AdwareMedic by clicking AdwareMedic in the menu bar and selecting
    “Quit AdwareMedic”.
               or
If you don’t have another browser:
     Remove adware manually by following the “HowTo” from Apple.
    “Remove Genieo, also known as InstallMac”
    http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987
      Safari > Preferences > Extensions
    Turn those off and relaunch Safari again.
    Turn those on one by one and test.

Usb video adapter and multiple desktops

I just upgraded my mbp mid-2010 to 10.8. Everything is fine, wait for it, until I try to use my external usb vga adapter. When that is plugged in and I instert anything into another usb port it creates a new desktop and steals focus from what I did have dispalyed. So literally I will be working on my remote session, plug in a flash drive, my remote session screen goes away and a blank desktop is now shown on the external monitor. I have the logic board problem with NVidia problem so I can't use the mini-display port. I went into Command Center and turned that thing off, thinking it was causing it.
So I guess that is the question: why does it create all these darn desktops when all I want are just the mbp display and the external monitor?

mission control*

Using multiple desktops with a 4 finger swipe on a Mac Book Pro running Lion- is there a way that I can allow Safari open on several but not all?? Looks like I can set it for one but not others. All, one, or nothing

Using multiple desktops with a 4 finger swipe on a Mac Book Pro running Lion- is there a way that I can allow Safari open on several but not all?? Looks like I can set it for one but not others. All, one, or nothing

Hey Eric,
Thanks for taking the time. Unfortunately no that does not solve it. Same as swipe it will get me there and it will show separate programs spaced out. The issue I am having is that all my open word files are bunched up in a pile on top of each other. I can see the edges of each one but I want them to be separated from each other enough that I can visually identify what file is what.
Again, thanks for trying, it is appreciated.

Corrupt, flashing graphics in Safari windows and unresponsive desktop

The MBP I bought in June is essentially a lemon. Multiple crashes, failures, kernel panics, gray screen of death, etc. Per the warranty, first the RAM was replaced, then the logic board. I also did a OSX reinstall, and unfortunately that hasn't fixed the most common, ongoing problem, which I believe is relevant to Safari and possibly Adobe Flash. Would love some help/input! Here are the details.
While using Safari, from time to time when I open a new window, all that window displays is random flashing blocks of graphic gibberish. It doesn't matter what website I'm trying to go to. That's unfortunately the best way to describe it. The window thus loses total functionality, and the only way to get rid of it is to quit and re-launch Safari. Also when this happens, other problems occur:
1) Impossible to take a screenshot -- if I do, it produces a solid black image.
2) I keep getting logged out of all Google accounts and activity.
3) The desktop and folders lose functionality. I can't open folders, select icons, open documents, etc. Icons also disappear, with only their title text beneath them.
4) Eventually Safari crashes.
Things I have done to remedy this: reinstall the system, made sure all software is up to date (including Adobe Flash), hardware test, disk utility tests, cleared history/cache/cookies. I dread the idea of going back again to the Genius Bar, being told it's all my fault, having to ask them to take any corrective action, and then their stupid attempt to make me feel guilty for pursuing my warranty options (MBP covered by extended Apple Care).
Thoughts? Thanks in advance.

Thanks -- this suggestion seems to have worked, I haven't had corruption or crashes since making that setting in Preferences. Hopefully they'll issue a patch to fix this in a future update. Many thanks again!

Safari and Firefox on my desktop suddenly stopped combine ting to any website. IPad and IPhone work fine from the same wifi. Any ideas.

Safari and Firefox will not connect to website On desktop. IPad and IPhone work fine from the same wifi.

Restart your router.

Multiple desktops and how do I remove them?

How do I even end up with multiple desktops and how do I remove them. All gets very confusing!
Thank you

Swipe up with 4 fingers, or press F3 (or fn+F3 depending on how you have your keyboard configured)
At the top of your screen should be all your desktops simply hover your mouse around the top left area of one of them (apart from the first one) and a X will appear which you can click to close it

Multiple desktops and mail

The multiple desktops in Lion (replacing Spaces) - how do I keep Mail from coming up in every Desktop? I'd like to keep all of my "communication" (Skype, Mail, Twitter, etc) in one Desktop (2 additional monitors if it matters - I dont think it does) , and have things I am working on in another...but Mail comes up regardless of the Desktop I switch to. I want it to stay in the "communications" desktop. Any ideas? Possible?

Navigate to your "Communication" desktop and Right/Control click on a running application in the Dock and select Options > Assign to This Desktop.

Safari Spinning Beach Ball after 10.5.5, Camera Raw Update, and Rmt Desktop

Safari is having real problems after remote desktop and camera raw update. Safari is totally unusable. Spinning beach ball forever and brings the entire machine to a hault. Hope someone can help with a fix soon
I zapped the pram. Tried deleting safari preferences. Cleaned out all the caches and histories. Rebuilt the permissions. Reset safari and reboot many times. No love.
I am now in the process of reapply the combo updater for 10.5.5, and repairing thee premissions one last time.

Hi,
If Safari continues to misbehave, Save your Bookmarks by using File/Export Bookmarks and any other personal information you have stored. Delete the Safari and app, download and reinstall:
http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
Make sure and run Disk Utility from your Applications/Utilities folder and Repair Disk Permissions BEFORE and AFTER each and every update or upgrade.
Carolyn

I was in full screen mode and now that I have exited, the main toolbar for Safari is gone. So please don't say go to View. Each time I click off of safari to the desktop, it shows me the Finder Toolbar. I have opened and closed Safari many many times.

I was in full screen mode and now that I have exited, the main toolbar for Safari is gone. So please don't say go to View. Each time I click off of safari to the desktop, it shows me the Finder Toolbar. I have opened and closed Safari many many times.

No no, if you read what I said, it would be that each individual display would be customizable to the user. The way you have it, it sounds like your second display will be dedicated to scrolling through fullscreen apps not allowing you to do it on the home screen. This is silly because with my concept, you could do that, by dragging apps to fullscreen in your second display, but if you want you could tell another display to scroll through fullscreen apps (independently) if you wanted. Each display will have it's own mission control with it's own set of desktops. I also can see how some people would still want them linked together, so this could just be a little check box made in mission control prefs to "link" or "unlink" desktops with link checked by default.
With your solution you're limited to your setup. but what if the person has three or four displays? Well then your solution would limit them to one dedicated display that scrolls through fullscreen apps where mine lets a person customize their desktops depending on their preference and setup.
further example: if you have safari, address book and mail in one display, you could still have ichat, PS and Illustrator in your second, and a text editor, FTP Client and iTunes in your third. Then you would mix and match these apps but it would promote the use of mulitple displays as well as benefit people with three or more, which thunderbolt, Cinema Display and Pro computers support.

Saved preferences in safari and desktop settings completely erased

I opened up Safari and suddenly realized that all of the saved bookmarks and preferences were gone, and the same thing happened when I opened up Firefox. So I thought restarting the computer might help.
However, after the computer (an eMac running 10.4.6) finished booting up, I noticed that all of the desktop preferences had been erased as well. Saved passwords, keychains, etc. all disappeared. The desktop background image was replaced with the default blue background. All of the saved dock preferences were gone and replaced with the default dock settings.
I was wondering what happened, if it is at all possible to fix, and/or if there is possibly a bug going around. Any help or information would be extremely appreciated. It would be awful if this happened the other macs at our office.

ducanedesigns,
How much free space is available on the hard disk? Is Filevault in use?
It is imperative that you have at least 10-15% of your hard disk available as free space in order that OS X can function without the threat of data loss.
Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk, also by Dr. Smoke will help you identify methods which you can use to increase the free space on your startup disk.
;~)

Mac keeper came on safari and I accidently started to install it. Then I stopped and deleted Mac keeper from my downloads. Must I do anything else to protect my desktop?

Mac keeper appeared suddenly while surfing on Safari, and I accidently started to download it. I stopped and then deleted Mac keeper from my downloads when I realized it was bogus. Please help. Do I need to take any special precautions?

If you didn't install it, that's all you need to do.

Yosemite consolidating multiple desktops on dual monitors,

I have a Mac mini (mid 2010) - 2.4 GHz - 350 GB - Yosemite 10.10.2 - with dual LG monitors. Instead of using Mission Control I prefer to have multiple desktops on each monitor. I dedicate a single app to each desktop, e.g., Safari, iTunes & iPhoto on Mon1 facing Mail, Messages & Calendar on Mon2, and swipe between apps, which I find more convenient. Six numbered desktops plus Dashboard.
In Mavericks this arrangement was preserved on restart. However, in Yosemite, all apps on Mon2 are consolidated in a single desktop, the remaining 2 desktops - 4 & 5 - have migrated blank to Mon1, PLUS an additional blank desktop - 6 - is generated on Mon1. The single desktop on Mon2 is now 7. On subsequent restarts there become eight, then nine, then ten desktops, etc.
I've been up and down the settings options, tried System Help, outside searches, and even mentioned the issue in passing during an unrelated Apple Tech Support call. To no avail. I had hoped that one of the updates would resolve this. It is easily but inconveniently resolved manually, but as I mentioned this was a non issue in Mavericks.
I mentioned this problem in an earlier post, but in less detail. Has anyone else experienced or heard of this?

I did find a workaround........ that works so far....... If I put FCPX into full screen mode. Then my events dissapear!!!! But if I toggle on and off the "Window/Show Events in a separate window" menu then the Events reappear and I can swipe between desktops and all the windows behave as they should. That's a relief. The old method doesn't work but at least this one does. I hope this helps someone who is swiping like a mad man like I was.

Are multiple desktops in 'Lion' totally pointless?

Having multiple desktops for different activities or jobs seems pointless if you can't open a software application from the toolbar when it is already in use on another desktop. i.e. If I need my addressbook open on my personal desktop and also on my work desktop, I can't do it. If I try the desktops flip across screen 'wham! to the desktop where the application was originally opened! No good. The only thing that comes close is to open a new 'file' on the "main" desktop and move that individual file to another desktop whilst in the Mission Control position. That says it all! It's daft... and if you close it down you cant open it again without redoing the whole mission control thing. Am I missing something here apart from my patience?

They way that I perfer to work, there are no cases where I want the OS to switch to another desktop simply because I choose to open an application that happens to already be opened on another desktop. For me, I want the application to open in the current desktop, regardless if it is already open in another desktop. I tend to have multiple applications open on a single desktop in windowed mode - where no single application consumes the entire screen. For me, out-of-sight-out-of mind applies - I need to be able to see what I have to work with.
However, some of my friends at work prefer to work in a full-screen mode, where a singe application takes up the entire screen. They are constantly switching back and forth from one application to the other, typically by pressing CMD+TAB. I guess in this context, having the OS switch from one desktop to another based on where the application is opened would make sense. But, to me that seems like a big waste of a desktop - only showing one application.
So, here is an example of my use-case. I come to work and powerup my Mac. I open Finder and Excel so that I can start working on a report. While I'm working on the report a friend comes over and asks me to help him with his report. In this case, I would prefer to switch to an unused desktop and then proceed to open the applications that I need for this new task, such as Finder and Excel (the same ones I was using for my report but now I need for my friend's report). I already have context in those applications on Desktop1 and I don't want to lose that, hence my desire to use another desktop. So, I go to Desktop2 and click on the Finder icon in the Dock. Instead of it opening a new instance of Finder on Desktop2, I'm jolted over to Desktop1 where Finder was already opened. But I don't want that - I want to keep my place in Finder on Desktop1 and open a new one on Desktop2. Sure, I can hold the CTRL key down while I press on the Finder icon in the Dock and tell it to open a new window. However, instead of it opening a new window in Desktop2, it opens it in Desktop1 while leaving me in Desktop2 and wondering where the new Finder window is. It seems that Safari works correctly in that it will open a new Safari window in Desktop2 if I hold the CTRL key down while I click on its icon in Dock. However, if I forget that, I'm transported over to Desktop1 - which I don't want.
How Firefox is handled is just weird. Lets say that I am in Desktop1 and I have Firefox opened. Then I switch to Desktop2 and now I want Firefox open in Desktop2 too. While in Desktop2 I can hold the CTRL key when clicking on its icon in Dock and tell it to open a new window. Indeed, it will open a new window - but not in Desktop2. Instead, it opens a new window in Desktop1 and I get tranported over to Desktop1. Again, not what I want.
Sure, you can blame the applications for this. But to me, the OS is the coordinator of all the resource on the system, including the applications. So, in my opinion, if it does not work consistently and and if it does not work how I expect then it does not work well.
-Rod

Safari and multiple desktops?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for