When I use the little arrow menu to send an e-mail a link from the Safari browser in OS X Mountain Lion, it pastes a copy of the whole page within the body of a Mail message. Is there a way to just send a link to the page?
Apple has included several ways to share Web pages in OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and you can still send just a link in a message. When you use the “Share†menu - the small button with an arrow on it located just to the left of the Safari address box - and choose the “Email This Page†option, the Mac should open up a new message from its Mail program. If you see a copy of the entire page in the message body instead of just a link, look up in the lower part of the message's header area.
Right below the Subject line, on the right side of the message you should see a small drop-down menu next to “Send Web Content As.†Click on the menu to see a list of options: Reader, Web Page, P DF and Link Only. Select the “Link Only†item to change the content in the message body from “Web Page†to just a link. (Of the other two options, “Reader†sends the page content in a stripped-down, easy-to-read text format and “PDF†converts the page to a PDF attachment to the message.
If you want a quicker way to mail a link to a Web page you are currently browsing in Safari, press Command-Shift-I on the keyboard. (Pressing Command-I while the page is open in Safari creates a new Mail message with the Web Page in the message body.) For a more menu-oriented approach to sending a link from Safari, hold down the Shift key go to the File menu, to Share and select “Email Link to This Page.†If you do not press the Shift key, the Share menu item reverts to “Email This Page.â€
