MacOS – Safari 9 Top Sites shortcut key gone missing or changed

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Until version 9, pressing option+command+1 would bring up Top Sites. That does not work in version 9.

I see menu bar Bookmarks > Show Top Sites with no shortcut key listed next to it. That is worrisome.

However, in Preferences > Tabs I see an option named "Use ⌘-1 thru ⌘-9 to switch tabs". When I uncheck that, I get the old behavior of loading my top 9 favorite bookmarks instead of jumping to a tab. Because of this, I hold out hope there is an undocumented shortcut key for jumping to Top Sites.

Best Answer

Why not just add one yourself?

Open System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → App Shortcuts and click add.
Select Safari, enter ‘Show Top Sites’ for the menu title and enter a keyboard shortcut.

This adds the shortcut to the menu option:

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Windows – Safari – Top Sites disappears after another app went rogue

I don’t really know the right answer, but I have a guess.

You mention that you use safari on Windows, but you don’t mention the window’s version. In any case, the extreme load your computer had (in terms of RAM/HDD) might have caused a corruption in the Safari’s config and/or cache. Your computer, in an effort (desperate!) to save its information and write to the page file, might have had problems saving all the info before the shutdown actually occurred.

When you returned after the reboot, safari’s settings may have been corrupted preventing the TopSites button to appear.

I don’t know much about Safari’s architecture under Windows, but on OS X if the preferences are corrupted, we simply remove them and the program regenerates them upon first start.

This is just a guess of course.

But remember that your computer was struggling to save its state when you shut it down. You had no RAM and your pagefile was enormous.

How to disable Top Sites in Safari on macOS Lion

I found this somwhere else which may solve your problem:

Quit Safari
Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities) & paste:
```
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2
```
then hit return & quit Terminal.

To reactivate:

defaults delete com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy

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