How to get Safari to always display the tab bar

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When you first open Safari and only have one page (one tab), the tab bar is not shown. When you open your second tab (e.g. by center-clicking a link to open it in a new tab), the tab bar then appears, which makes the content of the original page jump down a bit.

I expected to find an "Always show the tab bar" checkbox in Preferences, but apparently not.

Is there a way to force the tab bar to always appear, even if there's only one tab open?

Best Answer

As it turns out, you do this through the "View" menu, rather than through "Preferences":

  1. Close all tabs but one, so you only have one tab open
  2. In the "View" menu, click "Show Tab Bar" which will make the tab bar appear
  3. This preference will stick, even if you close and reopen Safari

Simple, but not what I expected!

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