OK, so you’ve installed the Safari 4 Beta and found, perhaps to your mild surprise, that you no longer have Safari 3 around and that your default browser is now beta software. (For what it’s worth, I think this beta period will be pretty short, and that a proper release is not far away. Anyway.)
But there are some things you don’t like. Perhaps you’d like the tabs to appear where they used to. Perhaps you liked the old loading progress bar – the blue one that filled the address bar, instead of the new spinning wheel which only displays *activity*, not progress. Or perhaps you hate the new Top Sites feature and want to disable it completely (not much need for this, as it’s easy to switch off, but still).
All these tricks and more can be achieved with a little Terminal-fu and some copying and pasting from this web page, upon which Caius Durling has posted some of the nuggets of hidden prefs he found lurking inside the Safari 4 package.
Maybe that messing about isn’t enough for you, and you want to go back to Safari 3. Fair enough: look inside the Safari 4 Beta disk image that you downloaded, and there you’ll find an uninstaller. Run this and all will be reverted.
And if you’re fed up with all versions of Safari, you could always try something new by downloading OmniWeb, which is now free (as Pete pointed out earlier) and is full of browser feature goodness.
