To go in the reverse direction, additionally press Shift.Īnother solution for switching between applications and/or windows is Exposé, now in Lion part of Mission Control. To switch to a different window of an application, you can press the keyboard shortcut configured in System Preferences » Keyboard » Keyboard Shortcuts » Keyboard & Text Input:
Workarounds exist, but they are not well known, easy to use, and unreliable.īy clicking a Dock icon or selecting an entry in the application switcher ( Cmd-Tab), you focus that application and all its windows. Internally, there can be additional processes (like for Chrome, or even Safari now), but there is one process responsible for the UI (e.g.
Applications on Mac OS X are generally only started once, and multiple windows belong to the same process.
