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Safari 14.0. Missing Top Sites!
- Thread starter Bksansoo
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omg. thank you! I straight-up thought I was losing my mind. I just started a new job & each day I was saving my time sheet to "Favorites." Yet each day I'd go back & it was gone. Today I realized..tf Favorites is gone! WHY in the world would Safari continue to prompt a save to Favorites, and then hide Favorites? I'm so pissed.
I think it's not the same thing. I mentioned earlier, if you unknowingly try to bookmark to Top Sights, it definitely does not route to Frequently Visited. It takes the bookmark, though I've yet to find where it goes. :-(
**TOP SITES FIXED** How to manually add on Frequently Visited.
Click on the URL, then double click on the image on the left-hand side, choose Frequently visited and you are good to go.
I'm attaching an image, it's in Italian but I'm sure you can all guess.
Click on the URL, then double click on the image on the left-hand side, choose Frequently visited and you are good to go.
I'm attaching an image, it's in Italian but I'm sure you can all guess.
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What in bloody hell? At SOME point in the past couple of weeks, Top Sites reappeared on my iMac. They were exactly as I had them set up previously. Not sure what the hell I did (or some update did) that made them reappear. Now I have a new M1 MBA and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get them back - despite both being on 11.0.1.
Thinking back, I don't think these ever synced between devices via iCloud - they had to be set up on any individual machine you wanted them on. So perhaps if I find that plist file on the iMac and copy it over to the new MBA, it will auto-magically appear as shown below? Anyone have any further insight? This is really... weird.
Thinking back, I don't think these ever synced between devices via iCloud - they had to be set up on any individual machine you wanted them on. So perhaps if I find that plist file on the iMac and copy it over to the new MBA, it will auto-magically appear as shown below? Anyone have any further insight? This is really... weird.
I believe this occurred in Big Sur or the latest Safari update. "Frequently Visited" became Top Sites and when you right click it gives you the option to display as icons or Thumbnails.
It doesn't look like you can pin them to force a site to stay on, though. So they'll still change based on sites you visit the most. I think.
Not true. They have been present on my iMac for at least 2 weeks and they've stayed pinned the entire time.
I'm afraid to try, because something might get screwed up. They're situated exactly as I want to keep them.
Now that the Top Sites are back... is there any way to increase the grid size? I believe I used 5x5 full-screen grid before, but now I only have rows of three in the center and lots of empty space on the sides - and no button to change the layout. I wonder if there is a file with this kind of parameters where we could change it - does anyone know?
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I suppose you could manually edit ~/Library/Safari/TopSites.plist and add the websites that you need. Make sure to backup the original file just in case.
P.S.: Just read your original question. Transferring TopSites.plist to ~/Library/Safari/ folder on a new Mac worked for me, although I haven't tried this on the latest MacOS (still running Mojave).
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<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>BannedURLStrings</key>
<array/>
<key>DemoSites</key>
<array/>
<key>DisplayedSitesLastModified</key>
<date>2020-12-03T16:19:17Z</date>
<key>TopSites</key>
<array>
There are none of my "Top Sites" in that file, in fact it's full of sites I never go to, yelp, google, yahoo, bing... never been there!
For some reason I am unable to open my file in TextEdit anymore (protection? Not sure), but I can still view it in Finder. The way I understand it, BannedURLStrings are the websites that were pulled into TopSites automatically but were discarded by the user.
It also may have something to do with pinning. All my TopSites were pinned, and they are addressed in TopSites.plst right after the text you have quoted in your message as follows:
<array>
<dict>
<key>TopSiteIsPinned</key>
<true/>
<key>TopSiteTitle</key>
<string>TITLE
<key>TopSiteURLSting</key>
<string>URL
</dict>
etc.
It also may have something to do with pinning. All my TopSites were pinned, and they are addressed in TopSites.plst right after the text you have quoted in your message as follows:
<array>
<dict>
<key>TopSiteIsPinned</key>
<true/>
<key>TopSiteTitle</key>
<string>TITLE
<key>TopSiteURLSting</key>
<string>URL
</dict>
etc.
Hello, my problem is that I can't edit my Top Sites at all, like I used to. When I go to preferences, I don't have Top Sites as an option, only favorites. So I can't even begin to access/edit my Top Sites options. I'm on Safari 14.0.2, can you help me?
Top sites is no more. Use Favorites just like you used Top Sites. Access the site you want, use "Add Bookmark" and choose "Favorites". Top Sites was a nice feature, but mine changed periodically if I cleared my history or cache. This occurred even when I had the site pinned. I was initially upset at losing Top Sites, but I find "Favorites" works much better and stays stable.
THANK YOU!!!
When I did this, I actually now have Top Sites as a Header, and all of my Top Site links / icons are present and accounted for. It does not say Favourites, but Top Sites !
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