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Tweaking Safari 4’s Hidden Preferences

Okay, who else thinks Safari 4 is cute and all that, and that it looks like Google Chrome? New look and spanking great new features. Safari 4 has the tab bar on top, fancy URL completion, circular progress bar (instead of the bluish progress bar on the address bar we used to have in the previous version) and many more.

Some people are excited about the changes, some don’t. I personally can’t get used to the tab bar relocation so I looked for a solution to revert it back. There is the hard way, typing this and that into Terminal app but hey, let’s cheat and use the easier way.

Swoon dot net made a neat app that allows us to tweak the hidden preferences in Safari, such as relocate the tab bar to where it used to be. Installation is fairly simple, you can’t screw this up, really. Download the app here and run it.

My safari 4 buddy preferences

My safari 4 buddy preferences

Press apply and restart your Safari. Voila! You’ve got your familiar-looking Safari with the massive new features :)

Note: if you are using Safari 4 on Windows and you’re looking for the hidden preferences: sorry, not your lucky day.

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May 4th, 2009 in Mac, Tips and Tricks by anima

1 Comments

  1. Gary B
    June 9th, 2010 at 5:08 am

    Great site with some very useful tips, but two things that bug me about Safari, is there any way to 1/ make the downloads window auto-vanish when the downloads are done ( like ff and camino ) and 2/ anyway to stop the “are you sure you want to” dialogue boxes when you clear the cache and/or history so I only have to click once… how many unnecessary clicks does a person need in one lifetime ?
    that would be a winning set of tips please !
    Cheers
    Gary

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