How to make Safari open a new window where you want it to

by Tom on December 7, 2008

If you happen to have a secondary monitor you might have noticed the rather annoying way Safari handles new windows. For example, if you open a window and then drag it to the second monitor, any new window will then open on the secondary monitor too, no matter which monitor the currently active window is on.

This is due to how Safari handles the creation of new windows. It always opens new windows a bit lower and a bit to the right of the previous window that was opened. Think of Safari’s windows as a stack: each new window goes on top of the previously opened one and the position of a new window is determined by the window immediately below it in the stack.

The only way to get Safari to open new windows on the primary screen again, is to open a new window and drag it from its undesirable location to where you want to have. Any subsequently opened windows will then again open on your primary monitor - until you drag a window to the second monitor again, that is.

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