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Safari 4 Top Sites Dave South

The new Safari 4 “Top Sites” screen shows icons of websites you visit most. I would prefer to see only the sites I choose and in the order I want them. It turns out it’s easy to manually add sites not shown and arrange them however you want.

Visit website to add Dave South

Visit a website you want to add to top sites.

Use the site icon Dave South

Click and drag the site icon which is the little icon to the left of the URL.

Drag to Top Sites Dave South

Drag the icon and link to the Top Sites icon in the bookmark bar.

Website saved Dave South

The website is now saved to the Top Sites page.

Edit Top Sites Dave South

Click the “Edit” button in the lower left corner. You can change the size of the icons using the links on the right for small, medium or large.

Arrange icons Dave South

Then drag the icons around on Top Sites to “pin” them into place. The blue pushpin shows all pages permanently assigned to Top Sites. To remove a page, click the black X.

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