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Safari 4 Beta. New Features and Tweaks
I feel impressed on many new features of Safari 4 and I believe you feel the same. However, some of the features are not essential for us and may even break our usual workflow. This creates the urge to disable some of the features.
In this article, we will discuss with you new features of Safari 4, as well as Terminal command lines that can be used to disable these new features.
Note. For using Terminal command line provided, you follow these steps:
- Open Terminal
- Select All Lines and Copy to Terminal
- Hit Return Key to Update Changes and Relaunch Safari
Tab Bar Designed on Top
In Safari 4, the tab bar is totally redesigned and put to top of the browser, just like what we see in Google Chrome. It takes time to adapt to this change, but you can always change it to old position using following Terminal command lines.
Change. Move Back Tab Bar to Old Position
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO killall Safari & open -a Safari
Loading Indicator
Instead of using blue progress bar, Safari 4 now is using loading indicator to tell user that Safari is loading the page. The drawback is that now we can't really see how many percents of the page have been loaded.
Change. Restore Blue Progress Bar
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO killall Safari & open -a Safari
Autocomplete Menu
Like the autocomplete form, now Safari 4 provides autocomplete menu for its URL bar. By typing a few letters for the URL, Safari 4 can help us search through History for matching URLs.
Change. Disable Autocomplete Menu
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeFancyURLCompletionList -bool NO killall Safari & open -a Safari
Google Search Suggestion
If you've installed Inquisitor before, you will get the idea of how this works.
Change. Disable Google Search Suggestion
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeGoogleSuggest -bool NO killall Safari & open -a Safari
CoverFlow View for Bookmarks
The elegant coverflow view now appears on Safari 4 bookmarks, though it's not necessary for quick bookmark search but I really love it.
Change. Disable CoverFlow View
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeFlowViewInBookmarksView -bool NO killall Safari & open -a Safari
Top Sites
The most obvious change in Safari 4. No need to explain further. *he he*
Change. Disable Top Sites
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeTopSites -bool NO killall Safari & open -a Safari
Top Sites Dimming Animation
When you're clicking on one of your top sites, an animation will take place and the browser screen will be dimmed.
Change. No Dimming
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TopSitesZoomToPageAnimationDimsSnapshot -bool NO killall Safari & open -a Safari
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40 Comments
easyk
i was really missing the blue status indicator on the address bar, great tweak now i dont have to reload the same page thinking it's not doing anything, thanks! btw, the addblock works great on the new safari for all those who hate adds.. do not install saft, hard to get rid of and not worth it, my two cents. cheers
dumitru
great tips, especially the progress bar one, I hate the new method, old school progressbars FTW
iBookmaster
Or we can do it the easy way and download and install Safari Modifier 4.
Dude
hee great tip with the status bar. But what is the terminal command if I would want to change it back to the original safari4 setting ?? Maybe also a point for the other changes ?! The command for the way back, if you shouldn't like the change. thnx
chhuang
i really wish that Safari has the option 'Ask where to save' option.
Xero
If you change the boolean from 'NO' to 'YES', you can reverse the changes -Xero
Shari
these were great. any tips for how to make up terminal commands? i was having a lot of fun with these and others on this site.
Shari
these were great. any tips for how to make up terminal commands? i was having a lot of fun with these and others on this site.
Andrew
Since they updated Safari on June 8, the load indicator tweak does not work (I haven't checked everything else) do you know a new code? Thanks
Jacob
Hmmm..... the tip to Disable Google Suggestions doesn't work for me. Does anyone have the same problem or know another way to disable Google Suggestions in Safari 4 (5530.17)?
Mr Kirk
None of these work for me :-(
gee
the load indicator tweek does'nt work on the safari 4 update, any new codes for this ?
scottb
Many of these will NOT work on Safari 4, release version. Scott
dan
why can't apple just put these options in the preferences instead of having to use terminal. put it in the GUI ppl. its the 21st century
Ray
With the release version of Safari, virtually all of these tweaks do not work. This page should indicate this or be removed from the web.
iRock
Agree with Ray. All of these just doesn't work now.
b43rb8
yup, none of these tweaks work. please remove this page from this site as it is more confusing than helpful esp to folks who are not very familiar with terminal and hence are not quite sure what to expect when hitting return/enter key... however, thanks for trying. hope there are some workarounds to some of those issues, ie cover flow in bookmarks.
Wendy
The tweaks are available for Safari 4 Beta, I've changed the title of this article, sorry for the out-of-date article.
-JJQM-
use safari modifier 4 google it!
Peter Vanderhaden
I went to the safari 4 modifier site (it's not safari modifier 4), and the author says that his utility does not work on Safari version 4 as the developers of Safari have changed the way the internal settings can be modified. Wendy, the name of the article should include something about these tricks won't work with the final verison of Safari 4. Also at the bottom of the comment post box it says: "Rest assure, your email address...". The correct English is "Rest ASSURED, your email address...".
Raymond
I'd like to select all the text in the address bar by a single click, just like in Firefox 3.5 Does anyone know the command line for this? Thank you in advance
Dannee
I tried changed my status bar to the "Blue Status bar", and nothing happened. What am I doing wrong?
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How do u take the inquisitor off my safari?
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