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\"Gravatar\"hey there i need help badly!!!! there is no top sites botton on my new safari 4 browser and it does not work when i open a new tab too! please help me here is a screen shot: http://cid-5adcb124db645c5f.skyd...top%20sites.bmp thanks for your help!
Michael Fritz | 02.26.09 - 4:46 am | #

\"Gravatar\"@Michael

Sorry I haven't used the Windows version of Safari, so I have no idea what to do. You could try deleting the file at C:Documents and Settingsyour username hereApplication DataApple ComputerPreferencescom.apple.Safari but I can't guarantee that will help anything though. Keep a backup of the file in case anything goes wrong when you delete it, so you can just put it back.
Matt | Homepage | 02.26.09 - 11:21 am | #

\"Gravatar\"backslashes in the above comment have disappeared for some reason...

try Documents and Settings, your username here, Application Data, Apple Computer, Preferences, com.apple.Safari
Matt | Homepage | 02.26.09 - 11:22 am | #

\"Gravatar\"I don't get why they'd get rid of useful features like the progress bar and change the tabs to that useless top of the page thing.
First thing I did was get rid of most of the supposed 'improvements'.
BillyBob | 02.26.09 - 11:28 am | #

\"Gravatar\"where is the \"terminal\" and what EXACTLEY do you type in?
jordan | 02.27.09 - 3:51 am | #

\"Gravatar\"@Jordan

Sorry it isn't exactly clear. Go to your Applications folder and in there you'll find a folder called Utilities. Inside this folder you should find an application called Terminal. Double-click it to open it up, and a window should appear on the screen.

Now just copy and paste one of the lines from the article into the Terminal, then press return. If it works, you shouldn't receive any errors.

Now quit and reopen Safari to see the changes take effect.

If you decide you don't like the change, go back to the terminal and paste in the command again, but change the FALSE to TRUE and then press enter. Once you quit and reopen Safari, things should be back to normal.
Matt | Homepage | 02.27.09 - 12:26 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Well I still don't get it because I use windows so and don't see any terminal button or any applications folder. Can u please explain in detail how do it in windows XP.
Jordan | 02.27.09 - 2:54 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Ah, in windows you have to edit the preferences file directly. The location is given in one of the comments above. I'm not a windows users so I can't give you any more help than that I'm afraid. I'm sure a google search will bring up more detailed instructions.
Matt | Homepage | 02.27.09 - 4:04 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

That slow-ass \"Top Sites\" thing was driving me crazy!
KM | 03.24.09 - 6:02 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Any way to turn the iPhone like zoom off and revert to the old way?
PXLated | Homepage | 04.11.09 - 6:42 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"@PXLated

In the View menu you can choose \"Zoom Text Only\" right below zoom in and zoom out.
Matt | Homepage | 04.12.09 - 5:35 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Cool - Thanks Matt
PXLated | Homepage | 04.12.09 - 7:38 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"I'm very new to the Macworld but have had an iPod touch for a while now, and the cover flow in the Bookmarks of Safari goes the opposite way to how it goes on the iPod, (ie, the direction you swipe is the direction it moves, not the opposite, which is more like physically moving something)

Is there a way to reverse these swipes?
Matt | 04.23.09 - 5:04 am | #

\"Gravatar\"These tips are FANTASTIC!!! Thank you VERY much!!!!

I quite loved Safari 4 from the second I started using it (the day it was released as beta).

Unfortunately over time I've come to be very, very frustrated with performance issues in the application itself. Opening new windows and opening links in new tabs turned into an extremely slow process.

I really like \"Top Sites\" but I had to disable it on New Windows and New Tabs, in order to retain some sort of usability.

Hopefully I can use these tips to tweak the browser a little more, to stretch some more life out of my aging G4.
Jackson | 05.12.09 - 4:51 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Thanks so much for giving me the code to remove the bookmarks cover flow from the display. It takes up so much room on my 20 inch screen, and I never use it.

Now I don't see it, and do not have to use it.

Thanks.
JP | 05.13.09 - 11:15 am | #

\"Gravatar\"Changing the progress bar back to the old style, as in tip 8, also seems to remove the refresh arrow. Is there a way to get either the arrow or the button back?

Thanks
CJB | Homepage | 05.13.09 - 2:56 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Ignore that. The refresh button can be put in using Customise Toolbar.
CJB | Homepage | 05.13.09 - 3:19 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"In case anyone wants to try out some of these tips but doesn't want to play around in Terminal.app, I wrote a little app that lets you make the changes with a mouse and stuff.

http://cocoastep.github.com/tweaky/

Hope you find it useful.. I would have made this sooner but I didn't switch from Firefox until this past Wednesday.
lowell | 05.24.09 - 4:12 am | #

\"Gravatar\"Soooo.... basically these \"tips\" castrate Safari 4 and make it work just like Safari 3. You remind me of the people that tried to make OS X work like OS 9.
Chris McGee | 05.24.09 - 5:37 am | #

\"Gravatar\"lol

it's the blue loading bar that bugged me the most. the spinner thing is tiny.
lowell | 05.24.09 - 3:36 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Chris McGee: Thanks for being a belligerent poster, determined to make others feel bad for wanting to modify settings in their applications. How productive is that?

Getting back on track: I tried playing with the settings -- but specifically the refresh bar/button settings don't go far enough. They leave a hung refresh icon in the tabs, and it's background isn't transparent, so it looks awkward. I've tried restarting my browser, and the mac.

I really don't like the tiny refresh button -- poor responsiveness to \"escape\" when you want to \"Stop\" loading a page. For some reason, that feature ('escape' to stop a page from loading) just got wonky after Safari 4 initial beta. It seems a little better.... but overall the app is still far more sluggish than safari 3 (and i've been using it fulltime for months).

I feel like it's UI is sluggish, but pages render OK. It's odd -- so I'm really hoping the final release is really tidied up.

On a related note, to avoid any known issues, or potential problems, I removed all of my \"Internet-Plugins\" from my Library (all of the libraries)... and re-acquired each of the plugins I wanted again.... and that seemed to cure a few headaches --- but nothing specifically.

Seems like there's still some work left to do.

I CAN'T WANT until they fix the \"Reload\" problem where-in third party apps that embed safari/webkit into their app can't seem to send a \"reload\" through a button push -- the only way to get a page to properly reload is to right-click and reload. Specifically this is happening in Coda -- from Panic -- but i hear it's also happening in other apps -- though I haven't found any).

Thanks again for this cool list!!!
Jackson | 05.24.09 - 5:02 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"The real way to get Safari running smoothly is to stay far away from version 4.0. This version lays waste to the human interface guidelines Apple created, leaves a horrible trail of personal information unprotected on your machine, and breaks too many other applications and services to list.
Michael Argentini | Homepage | 05.25.09 - 1:23 am | #

\"Gravatar\"Excellent stuff, thank you very much. The only thing still bothering me is the horrible feature in the Google search bar where it stores your previous searches, and now there's no way to delete it without deleting your whole history. I don't want it to store my searches EVER, but I don't want to turn on the \"Private browsing\"-feature, because I want Safari to remember some passwords and user names.
HappyPappy | 06.01.09 - 2:23 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"@HappyPappy

if you're comfortable in Terminal.app, copypasta this whenever you want to clear your search history:

defaults delete com.apple.Safari RecentSearchStrings

that's a single line..

otherwise, i'll throw the feature into the tool i mentioned above.
lowell | 06.03.09 - 11:56 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"I pasted several of the commands in Terminal and restarted Safari, but, oddly, they didn't seem to take effect. Do you happen to know if these fixes are disabled now that Safari 4 is out of beta? If so, I guess I'll have to learn to love it...
midnite | 06.13.09 - 4:40 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Yes, unfortunately most of these tips no longer work now Safari 4 is out of beta.
Matt | Homepage | 06.14.09 - 12:46 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Hallo I tried to disable the TopList according hint #11

8:~ tomas$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeTopSites -bool FALSE
8:~ tomas$

But nothing changed. I have Version 4.0.2 (5530.19)

8:~ tomas$ defaults read com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeTopSites
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Tomas | 07.21.09 - 1:41 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Thanks for this. The \"topsites\" thing was annoying the hell out of me, nice to be able to turn it off. Pity Apple don't pre-warn you when one of their \"updates\" is not only going to include horrible features, but is also going to break something important. Somewhat disgusted to learn that a safari update, of all things, breaks XCode, and moreso when I learn that the XCode update to fix it means shelling out 75 quid to \"upgrade\" to leopard.

Particularly pissed off about this given that I only use Safari as a secondary browser, was quite happy with the old version, and hated most of the new \"features\" even before learning that it broke XCode. I mean, *how* does a frickin' browser update break XCode, FFS?

Guess I should have learned my lesson with Apple's software updates a while back, what with disabled iTunes features and so on. Been refusing iTunes updates for ages. Unfortunately, there's no easy way I can find to totally disable update alerts for a particular bit of software.

Once again, Apple updates something to more broken than it used to be, for no good reason. Grr.
Carl Williams | 07.30.09 - 5:52 pm | #

\"Gravatar\"Found this simple way to uninstall Safari 4. and restore at:
http://www.myappleguide.com/foru...alling-safari-4

I also experienced many problems running Safari 4 on my G4, which is running OS 10.4.11.
I found that it was very easy to uninstall and reinstall Safari 3, following these steps:
1. Download the desired version of Safari from this site:http://michelf.com/projects/multi-safari/
(I installed Safari 3.0.4. The program downloaded to my desktop, where it was labeled \"3.0.4\")
2. Locate Safari 4 in your Applications folder (or wherever you stored it) and drag it to the trash.
3. Empty the trash.
4. Drag the downloaded version of Safari from your desktop into your Applications folder.
It was that easy, and my Safari 3.0.4 is now running like a dream. The Safari 4 nightmare is over!
A. Moss | 11.02.09 - 9:14 am | #

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