Apple - What is a quick way to duplicate a tab in Safari?
I have two alternatives:
- Press Cmd+L (go the Location/Search field), then Cmd+Return.
- Click the back button (
<), then press Cmd while clicking the forward button (>).
Both of these will open a tab in the background. (Often, Cmd + click opens the click target's reference in a new tab.)
If you also press Shift while performing the second step of either of these alternatives, the tab will open in the foreground.
- ⌘ + L
- ⌘ + Enter
How it works: The first step "Highlights the URL." (File > Open Location...). The second step "Opens the URL in a new background tab."
I'm usually a Chrome user, but I just tested it. It works on Safari, too. I can't find a reference for Safari, but here is that for Chrome. (under Mac > Address bar shortcuts)
Edit: Trauts beat me to it while I was formatting the key glyph. Feel free to ignore my answer and upvote him!
Safari 13.1 finally added Duplicate Tab functionality, in both the contextual menu on tabs and in the Window > Duplicate Tab menu.
It doesn't come with a keyboard shortcut by default, but you can create your own keyboard shortcut in Keyboard preferences. (Internet Explorer, where this feature seems to have originated, used ⌘ + K.)