A guided tour
Explore the browser.
I kept building features and then forgetting they existed. So this is the tour I needed: every part of the browser, in the order worth trying it, with the exact keys and what to look for once you press them.
Work through it in order on your first pass. After that, jump to whatever chapter matches the thing you are trying to do. Tick the boxes as you go and this page remembers where you got to, in your own browser, on your own machine.
14
chapters
115
things to try
~75 min
start to finish
The tour
- 01First runThe window with nothing on it4 min
- 02The omnibarOne field for addresses, searches, tabs, history, and bookmarks6 min
- 03Tabs and the sidebarFour sidebar widths, cards that show the page, and a peek that does not switch8 min
- 04Split viewTwo to four pages at once, built out of ordinary tabs5 min
- 05Reading a pageReader, translation, find, zoom, capture, and a white point you can turn down9 min
- 06NewspaperA reading list that is actually a newspaper6 min
- 07Sessions and privacyIncognito, containers, and knowing exactly what a site left behind7 min
- 08Bookmarks, history, files, and what sites costIncluding one window most browsers will not show you6 min
- 09AutofillYour contact card, and nothing else4 min
- 10Scratch PadSomewhere to put a thing before you know where it goes4 min
- 11Research workspacesThe browser remembering which sources you actually considered10 min
- 12The agentBring your own model, with hard limits you set8 min
- 13Automation, extensions, and devtoolsDriving the browser from a terminal, an agent, or Siri7 min
- 14Across your devicesYour iCloud, not my server4 min
If you are recording this
Every chapter says what is worth filming.
Most chapters end with a note about the one moment that reads on video. Some features explain themselves in two seconds of footage and take a paragraph to write down. Those are the shots.
Before you record, take a pass through Settings and put the browser in the state you want on screen: sidebar width, theme, page white point, whether the AI panel exists at all. The app looks like a different product depending on those four answers.
You need the app open for any of this.
The tour assumes a Mac with Browser installed and running beside this page. If something in here does not match what you see, your copy is probably older than this guide.