Page SnapBack in Safari

You know those orange arrows that occasionaly show up on the right hand side of the address bar and search bar? Well, here's what happens when you click them.

If you go to a page that you want to jump back to, no matter how many clicks deep you go, then Page SnapBack is what you need. Here's an example. I go to youtube.com and hit Cmd-Option-K to set YouTube.com to my page snapback. I watch one of the featured movies. Then, I search for a movie. I watch a few of those movies and then, I want to go back to YouTube.com. (My snapback page) To go there, I merely hit Cmd-Option-P. I'm then magically taken back to YouTube.com by horses with golden wings! Well, actually, I'm taken back to YouTube.com by the power of ones and zeroes.

A few notes however. if you go somewhere else on the web without clicking (either by bookmark or typing in the URL) then the page snapback will be null and void and you won't be able to see the horses with golden wings. However, you can go back and forward with the page snapback still working. Also, Safari is nice enough that if you do go somewhere else without clicking, then it will automatically set that page for snapback.

There's another kind of snapback also. You can do a search snapback. Which is pretty much the same as hitting back until you get to your search results. The one major advantage of it though, is that there's a keyboard shortcut. Cmd-Option-S.