Safari is the Mac’s web browser. All the essentials are here: an address bar, a search bar, bookmarks, a history list, and so on. If you haven’t visited Safari in a while, you might be surprised to see how much Apple has moved things around, compacted things, and streamlined things. The premise being that most people would prefer to dedicate their web browser to seeing web pages, not staring at toolbars.
For example, the top of the window no longer displays the name of the website you’re on. And the address bar no longer displays the full address of the page you’re on. You may be reading http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/29/us/politics/house-vote-moves-budget-deal-closer-to-approval.html, but the address bar shows only nytimes.com.
(If you’d rather see the full address, then choose Safari→Preferences→Advanced and turn on “Show full website address.”)
The following pages walk you through the new structure of Safari. But if you’re an old hand and prefer the layout of the previous Safari, no worries; you can restore almost everything to the way it was in the olden days…of 2014.