"New Window" keyboard shortcut in Safari

I've discovered if you set "New Tab" as ⌘N and "New Window" as ⌘T it will work, ⌘T will open a new window and ⌘N will open a new tab, even though that is backwards, if you switch them to the right way, they both just open a new tab. Annoying, I know.


There is a setting in System Preferences > Dock called "Prefer tabs when opening documents". Change this to "Manually", it's probably set to "Full Screen Only" mode right now.

Not sure why this setting is under the Dock preferences but this will fix your issue. Downside is I think all applications behave that way now, like Finder and Preview. I guess you can't pick and choose specifically how you want an app to behave.

I turned it off because I am trained to use Cmd+N for new windows, and Cmd+T for tabs. It makes little sense why Cmd+N and Cmd+T would both open tabs regardless of settings. Why have the command execute from 2 different keyboard shortcuts, especially by wasting a classic shortcut that many have engrained in their heads.