To see the difference in philosophy between Windows and Macintosh computers you only need to look at the toolbars on their applications.  Microsoft will try and fit many of the most commonly used commands onto the toolbar in order to reduce the number of mouse clicks it takes to perform the task.  While functional, This tends to make Windows applications look cluttered.  Apple takes a different approach and removes all buttons from the toolbar except the most important.  This gives a cleaner and simpler look and feel to Mac Applications.

By default the only buttons that Safari, the Mac’s web browser, has on its toolare is a forward/back button, refresh button, A button that will clip part of the page and pin it to the Mac dashboard (not present on the Windows version of Safari), and the Add bookmark button.  Safari does not have a “home” button that takes you back to your homepage like other browsers.  I find the home button to be very useful and it’s something I want to be able to use in Safari.  Adding the home button to the toolbar is very easy, and there are a couple other buttons you can customize the toolbar with.  Thre are a print button and a button to increase and decrease the text’s font size.  There are versions of Safari for both Macs and Windows computers.  The following instructions will work on both versions.

Customize the Safari Toolbar

1. Click on the “View” menu and select “Customize Toolbar”
2. Drag and drop the icon from the popup onto the toolbar.  You will see the other icons move to the side and make space for the new icon.

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