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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1856751" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Welcome to the forum.</p><p></p><p>I think the reason you get returned to Safari is that you don't need to relaunch another version of safari to have as many safari windows open as you may need. In Safari, to open a new window, just click on the "File" option beside "Safari" on the top menu bar, then "New Window" and you get a new window in Safari that you can then drag anywhere you want.</p><p></p><p>You called it command tab, but your question was about why applications continue to appear. The red "X" does NOT close an app, it just pushes it into the background, still running. So when you close all Chrome windows, Chrome is still running, just not visible. You can see that on the Dock across the bottom, where a little dot appears below the Chrome icon. CMD-Tab shows all running applications, open windows or not. If Chrome has no open windows and you CMD-Tab to select it, you get the desktop, as you might expect with no open windows. To open a window, click on the icon on the Dock.</p><p></p><p>You can organize your Desktop so that you have a better idea of where the screenshot is going to end up appearing. That way you can just move windows out of the way to see the icon for the screenshot. Or you can use another desktop to get to the image. To get another desktop swipe four fingers up on the trackpad and at the top you will see a "+" in the upper right corner. Click that to add another desktop. With no application windows on it, but all the Desktop icons.</p><p></p><p>Browsers work that way, as far as I know. You can shrink until you get to the minimum size (mostly for images) and then it starts to cut off. </p><p></p><p>Maybe this link to the Use Guide for macOS will help: <a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/welcome/mac" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/welcome/mac</a></p><p></p><p>it's for Catalina, but most of it is the same in recent versions of the OS. </p><p></p><p>Hope that helps some.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1856751, member: 396914"] Welcome to the forum. I think the reason you get returned to Safari is that you don't need to relaunch another version of safari to have as many safari windows open as you may need. In Safari, to open a new window, just click on the "File" option beside "Safari" on the top menu bar, then "New Window" and you get a new window in Safari that you can then drag anywhere you want. You called it command tab, but your question was about why applications continue to appear. The red "X" does NOT close an app, it just pushes it into the background, still running. So when you close all Chrome windows, Chrome is still running, just not visible. You can see that on the Dock across the bottom, where a little dot appears below the Chrome icon. CMD-Tab shows all running applications, open windows or not. If Chrome has no open windows and you CMD-Tab to select it, you get the desktop, as you might expect with no open windows. To open a window, click on the icon on the Dock. You can organize your Desktop so that you have a better idea of where the screenshot is going to end up appearing. That way you can just move windows out of the way to see the icon for the screenshot. Or you can use another desktop to get to the image. To get another desktop swipe four fingers up on the trackpad and at the top you will see a "+" in the upper right corner. Click that to add another desktop. With no application windows on it, but all the Desktop icons. Browsers work that way, as far as I know. You can shrink until you get to the minimum size (mostly for images) and then it starts to cut off. Maybe this link to the Use Guide for macOS will help: [URL]https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/welcome/mac[/URL] it's for Catalina, but most of it is the same in recent versions of the OS. Hope that helps some. [/QUOTE]
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