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Tap into Safari 4's hidden preferences
by Jay Hathaway Feb 25th 2009 at 11:00AM
If this is all too much for you to take at once, and you want the faster rendering and improved standards-compliance without all of the UI upheaval, you might want to have a look at this list of hidden preferences compiled by Caius Durling. Using the Terminal, you can change everything I mentioned above back to the way it was in Safari 3. Want tabs on the bottom again? You got it. And long live the load bar!
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Max said 11:15AM on 2-25-2009
I always hated the blue bar. I would, however, love to get the "pie" display that was available as a hidden pref on earlier Safaris.
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Nik said 11:52AM on 2-25-2009
Thanks for this! I missed the blue bar!
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lureofthesea said 1:19PM on 2-25-2009
The link to the list of hidden preferences is broken. Thx
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Parker said 4:01PM on 2-25-2009
I primarily use Firefox but I've always loved Safari's blue bar. In my opinion it's better looking and more useful than the traditional throbber, and it saves precious screen real estate as well. I recommend the Fission extension to bring it over to Firefox -- works great!
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kyleabaker said 4:50PM on 2-25-2009
'Chrome-like "tabs on top" layout'
This is actually an Opera-like layout since Opera has done this far longer than Chrome.
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Jay Hathaway said 4:55PM on 2-25-2009
That's completely true, and my friend Faruk Ates pointed out the same thing to Macworld. I agree with Jason Snell's response to him, though: in all the time Opera's been doing that, Apple never copied them. Chrome does it, and all of a sudden the feature is in the next version of Safari.
http://www.macworld.com/article/139011/2009/02/chrome_safari_4.html
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Quikboy said 5:29PM on 2-26-2009
Is there a way to get Safari's search box to have more options beyond Google and Yahoo!?
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