Comments on: Safari 4: Webkit gets dressed up

By: Pinderkent: Responses to the release of Safari 4 Beta.

Pinderkent: Responses to the release of Safari 4 Beta. — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:03:41 +0000

[...] Safari 4: Webkit gets dressed up: The author of the review says that his “biggest pet peeves with Safari have been addressed with this release.” However, also mentions that it’s “just a pretty toy to play with.” [...]

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:57:20 +0000

Tab’s on top? I’ve had that in Ion WM on Linux for every app for ages. It’s great to see Apply and other major application writers copy a correct implementation of tabs.

http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:08:28 +0000

I just find myself not noticing them. When I’m doing web design and I’m switching in between two sites, I actually want them to be somewhat obtrusive so I know they are there.

When I used Safari with the tabs on top, I found myself closing the browser window rather than just the tab.

Perhaps I will change my mind when the full version is released. Maybe I just need more time with it.

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:10:15 +0000

That’s interesting that they kept it as a defaults write pref. What don’t you like about the tabs?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:14:21 +0000

I actually hate the tabs on top, so for those like me you can fix this:

Go into terminal and paste this:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool FALSE

if you want the tabs back on top, change FALSE to TRUE

I can’t take credit for this, as I found it over at macosxhints.com. There’s a couple other changes you can make as well. I hope they just make it a preference in the “final” release.

Chris