Safari 4, some good things and others not so much

I’ve been testing the Safari 4 beta for a couple of days and the truth is that the impressions in principle are not bad at all in some aspects, despite having incorporated some changes that drive me really crazy, mainly the tabs, which now appear automatically in the title bar, saving space (something to be appreciated on 13” widescreen computers).

The Top Sites, a view in CoverFlow of the last pages visited, although it does not work very finely, is quite interesting and eye-catching, but it is difficult to get used to all those pages appearing when you are quite methodical and are used to finding your iGoogle page every time a new tab appears.

What I consider its worst novelty is to replace its progress bar with a simple rotating image that does not give any type of information and also the reload/stop button with a small icon in the address bar in the same place as the rotating image.

As an advantage, I have to say that it works like a shot, and as an example the loading speed of this blog:

In Safari 4

In Firefox

Luckily, for the new features that we don’t like, there are ways to return these features to how they were in version 3 by writing the corresponding commands in the terminal:

Puts the tabs below the bookmarks bar.

[actionscript]defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO[/actionscript]

Returns the reload/stop buttons and the classic progress bar to their place

[actionscript]defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO[/actionscript]

Disable the new autocomplete menu

[actionscript]defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeFancyURLCompletionList -bool NO[/actionscript]

Disable Google Suggestions in the address bar

[actionscript]defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeGoogleSuggest -bool NO[/actionscript]

Disable Top Sites

[actionscript]defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeTopSites -bool NO[/actionscript]

To restore them again, just replace the ‘No’ at the end with ‘YES’ and voila.

Via	Snipt