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Safari 4: How to move tabs back to their rightful place, enable blue loading bar behind URL, more
MacDailyNews —
... allow Safari users to move the tabs back where you expect them to be, restore the blue loading bar behind the URL, switch off the new URL autocomplete menu and revert back to the original one, turn off the new Google suggest menu, removes CoverFlow from the Bookmarks view entirely, disable the dimming when you click on a Top Site and it scales the screenshot up to fill the screen, completely disable the Top Sites feature, and, of course, how to undo the changes, too. Full article here . MacDailyNews Take: Once we returned Safari 4's Tabs back under the Bookmarks Bar and ...
Hidden Preference Tweaks in Safari 4 [Safari 4]
Gizmodo —
... , you might be interested in Random Genius' list of basic preference tweaks for people looking to disable some of the new features. [Random Genius] ...
MacOSG: How to tweak Safari 4
Macsimum News —
MacOSG: How to tweak Safari 4 Posted by Dave Merten Apple ico Feb 24, 2009 at 10:15pm image Are you disappointed in some of the new features in Safari 4—like the tab bar in the title bar, for example? Well here are some hidden preferences you can tweak (using your Terminal) to restore things back to the way they were in Safari 3. Safari’s binaries yeald the following strings: [image] You can tweak Safari 4 using your Terminal and following these commands . Special thanks to Caius “Hardcore” Durling for finding these tweaks. image“Macsimum News” is a proud supporter of ...
How To Bend Safari 4 To Your Will
Cult of Mac —
... tabs to appear where they used to. Perhaps you liked the old loading progress bar - the blue one that filled the address bar, instead of the new spinning wheel which only displays *activity*, not progress. Or perhaps you hate the new Top Sites feature and want to disable it completely (not much need for this, as it’s easy to switch off, but still).
All these tricks and more can be achieved with a little Terminal-fu and some copying and pasting from this web page, upon which Caius Durling has posted some of the nuggets of hidden prefs he ...
Safari 4 hidden preferences
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... There's quite a debate going on in the Mac web over Safari 4's new user interface. Personally, I think the new tab implementation is hideous, so I was glad to see that Caius Durling has discovered a bevy of hidden preferences for Safari 4. ...
Particle Debris (week ending 2/27) Adobe Snooze, News Muse, Safari Blues
The Mac Observer —
... with lots of demo photos. Finally, for those who have been experimenting with the beta of Safari 4, it's didn't take long for users to dig into the hidden preferences and make a list. If messing with beta software doesn't give you that special thrill, you can try messing around with these settings . Moving the Tab bar back where it blongs might be the most useful of the settings for those with the Tab blues. Question: Why do we "surf" with Safari? Shouldn't it have been named "Haleiwa"? Yeah, yeah, I know...
Weekly Recap: Leaked Mac Mini, New Safari and Shareholders
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... Perhaps borrowing a few design enhancements from its neighbors, Apple released Safari beta 4 to the public this week. While the browser’s speed is highly impressive, easily beating out its competition, certain elements are far from perfect and require some hackery to get used to.
READ → - Apple Releases Safari 4 Public Beta for Mac and Windows Users
READ → - Safari 4: Three Steps Forward, One Step Back
READ → - Safari 4 Hidden Preferences (Random Genius) ...
Apple’s Safari 4 Public Beta is a UI disaster
MacDailyNews —
... have come out of Microsoft. Holwerda doesn't need to junk Safari 4, he just needs to do this: $ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO $ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO $ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO So that Safari 4 Public Beta looks and works like this: [image] For more info on changing and restoring Safari 4 Public Beta features, see "Safari 4 Hidden Preferences," here .
ExtraBITS for 02-Mar-09
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... Hidden Preferences in Safari 4 Beta -- Liking the beta of Safari 4's speed, but ambivalent or truly annoyed by changes such as the top-mounted tabs and new toolbar? The Random Genius blog found hidden preferences to control these and other settings. (Posted 2009-02-26) ...
Are you ready to go on Safari?
MacBytes.com —
... to v3, when a site was loading the bar with the URL title in it had a blue progress bar going left to right. With 4B, at first I thought pages weren't loading at all and it was stalling until I realised there was a new, little spinning disc thing I can't see without looking for it. I much prefer the easy visual check that things are loading, thanks, so I aim to flip my Beta back to that, too. If you're confident to run a few UNIX commands, all the hidden preferences are detailed at Swedish Campground (I know, it's not the kind of name you'd expect. Trust me.) You can actually ...
An Objective Look at Safari 4 Beta - with Metrics
The Mac Observer —
... the list grows top to bottom in an expected way. Safari fails, OmniWeb does not. 5. Graceful changes. A browser, as it morphs into the future, should respect that people develop a work flow and hand-eye-coordination habits. A new UI, if it has compelling advantages, can break that, but the user must see an immediate payoff, not capricious design. Safari 4, in its compulsion to keep preferences minimalist, doesn't surface new interface options to the user. Instead, the user must locate mods by luck , and then implement them on the UNIX command line, not something everyone is ...
Daring Fireball’s Gruber on Safari 4 Public Beta: State-of-the-art-performance, but Tabs need work
MacDailyNews —
... -bool NO $ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO $ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO Then just relaunch Safari for the changes to take effect and go to View>Customize Toolbar> and add newly-enabled the Stop/Reload button, so that Safari 4 Public Beta looks and works like this: [image] For more info on changing and restoring Safari 4 Public Beta features, see "Safari 4 Hidden Preferences," here .
Mossberg reviews Apple’s Safari 4 Public Beta: ‘Succeeds at speed, flops on features’
MacDailyNews —
... -bool NO $ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO $ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO Then just relaunch Safari for the changes to take effect and go to View>Customize Toolbar> and add newly-enabled the Stop/Reload button, so that Safari 4 Public Beta looks and works like this: [image] For more info on changing and restoring Safari 4 Public Beta features, see "Safari 4 Hidden Preferences," here . Apple should at least provide the ability to do what we've done above via the final version of Safari 4's ...
