You can either click on the Safari icon in your OS X dock, or tap ⌘+Space to bring up spotlight type Safari in the box and hit enter. I recommend sticking to Safari on OS X, however, because it offers much smoother scrolling on webpages, and even nabs you better battery life (up to an hour or more, in some cases). Note: if you prefer using Google Chrome to Safari, Google will be the default search engine when you open up the browser. It all makes for a smoother, faster experience. The default search engine is the web search company that the browser uses to generate that page of search results, without making you go to, say, and typing in the results yourself. If you just type in a random query, you’ll get taken to a page of search results. If you type a web address into it, you’ll go to a specific web page. These days those two boxes have generally been replaced by a single bar. Type your URL in one, and your search query in the other. ![]() What’s a ‘default search engine,’ you ask? Back in the day, most web browsers used to have separate search boxes and address bars. ![]() Trying to search from Safari, but Yahoo keeps popping up? Here’s how to swap it out for some sweet Google search results.
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