How to: Send a Web page from Safari, using Mail
Harry Truman once said, “There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” Well, perhaps that, and these tricks to make Apple’s Safari browser do your bidding.
Here are a string of related Safari for Macintosh productivity tips that just might make your day a little easier, and perhaps even impress the girls, guys or your house pet (if that’s all you’ve got).
Send a Web page as an email:
1. Open Safari, navigate to page you want to send, let it finish loading completely
2. Click the File menu, then choose “Mail Contents of This Page” or just press ⌘ + I
3. Wait a moment, Mail will open with the page you want to send already formatted and loaded with the page title conveniently inserted into the email’s subject line
4. Add the address or addresses of the people you want to send it to and then click send (⌘ + Shift + D)
See also:
— 14 Tips for Safari 4 Beta (Mac OS X Tips)
— Essential Safari Tips & Tricks (MacApper)
— Productivity Tip: Easily e-mail Web pages from Safari (MacFixIt)
A variation of this tip is to go to File and then choose “Mail Link to This Page” (⌘ + Shift + I), and then repeat steps 3 and 4 listed above.
An interesting riff thereupon suggested by MacFixIt (link above) is to drag the page’s “favicon” (ie icon in Safari’s address bar) to the Mail icon in the dock, which automatically opens a new message with the link to the page ready to send. Once again, repeat steps three and four.
Got a Safari trick or two up your sleeve? Do share below…
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May 17th, 2009
Hi, I discovered that this procedure is broken in Safari 4 beta. It still works in safari 3.
May 17th, 2009
Hi, I discovered that this procedure is broken in Safari 4 beta. It still works in safari 3.
June 11th, 2010
(⌘ + I) does not work when using Safari 5.
To send a webpage as an email, press (⌘ + M) when using Safari 5.
June 12th, 2010
⌘ + I works just fine for me.
August 7th, 2010
When I try to send a page from a particular website using Safari, to my Optonline mail account, it is not received. It is received by my Aol account. This is the only website I can’t receive pages to my Optonine mail account that is sent using Safari. Why wouldn’t this work with only one particular webpage, yet it works with all others? Can anybody help me with this?
December 16th, 2010
I’ve use the Mail Contents of this Page. Works fine Mac to Mac – doesn’t work Mac to PC. Any ideas?
December 16th, 2010
Hi just wonder when send the page like that u receive the mail and it opens like a picture so u can’t klick on it and u can’t get to the page or any of the links on it
any idea how to send the page in a mail and u can klick on it or the links in it ??
thanks
Danny///