safari niggle

Ded_Zebra

Noticed today for the first time a gray bar at the bottom of safari. When you hover over a button on a webpage the url of the link displays on the gray bar. Fairly sure it wasn't always there but have no idea how to remove it.
All help and advice appreciated

PhilipMarlowe

View menu and hide status bar or press CMD / to toggle it on or off.

Ded_Zebra

cheers for that:cool:
it was driving me mad!!!:rolleyes:

Rulmeq

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

cheers for that:cool:
it was driving me mad!!!:rolleyes:

I'm a bit surprised by this, how do you ensure that the link you are about to click isn't goat pron or something?

Ded_Zebra

Rulmeq wrote: »

I'm a bit surprised by this, how do you ensure that the link you are about to click isn't goat pron or something?

By only going on sites I know and not clicking on ads or the "you are the 1000000th visitor!!!!!! " things :cool:

Twitter, Facebook and even boards have links that could lead you off to spam or worse that bar serves a purpose.

Ded_Zebra

well I find it annoying..... I prefer to see more of the webpage than the url of the link.....

mumof2

I guess I read it wrong then, apparently you can get viruses on an Mac? I had read somewhere that there was no need for antivirus protection on these......

Who can shed some light please:):confused:

Sad Professor

It's not that Macs can't get viruses, just that there aren't any in the wild at the moment. There's the occasional trojan, but there's no protecting against them except common sense.

You don't need anti-virus software.

Liameter

Seconded. Hard to believe, perhaps, but true (so far). No need to slow down your Mac with unnecessary software running in the background.