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Safari 4 Buddy

Safari 4 Buddy - 1.0

Change several hidden preferences in the Safari 4 Public Beta.

All Time: (4.4)
Version 1.0: (4.0)
Selected Version: 1.0
Release Date: 2009-03-23
License: Freeware
Downloads (version 1.0): 677
Downloads (all versions): 3,242

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Product Description:

Safari 4 Buddy is a Mac OS X Utility that enables the ability to change several hidden preferences in the Safari 4 Public Beta web browser, such as: moving the Tab Bar, reverting the Progress Style indicator, disabling Google Suggest and Top Sites and more.

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Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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Version 1.0:
Overall Rating: (4.0) Features: (4.0) Support: (4.0)
Ease of Use: (4.0) Quality / Stability: (4.0) Price: (4.0)
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Safari 4 Buddy Usage TipVersion 1.2 for Safari 4 Beta ONLY - Version: 1.2, 6/23/2009 01:45PM PST

yeidel
... it reports "Safari 4 Betanot found" [sic] if you have the release version of Safari.
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Safari 4 Buddy ReviewThumbs down for Apple - Version: 1.1, 3/29/2009 07:04PM PST

(3 of 5 users found this comment useful)

Hannibal Fortune
I really wanted to like Safari 4.0. Honest. I gave it a couple of weeks, using it every day. But I really couldn't get used to the tabs on top. Yeah, it saves a bit of window real estate, but I missed being able to read full page titles. Sorry, Apple, but just seeing the first few words are not enough. And with today's big screens, most people don't miss a few more pixels on top anyway. I also definitely did not like the way the tabs kept changing width. Half and one-third window tabs just don't look right. And while I like Top Sites, even though it hasn't been terribly useful yet, I hated the way pages were grayed out for a few seconds when you select a site there.

With Safari 4 Buddy, a few clicks and all's fine again. Thank you! I hope either Apple learns their lesson and gives us the old options again, or at least doesn't block apps like S4 Buddy. There's a little bit of promise there. At least Apple finally got rid of SnapBack (except for search results, where it actually is useful). In years of using Safari, I used SnapBack maybe three times. So Apple isn't completely off in its own world.
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Safari 4 Buddy ReviewQuick and easy - Version: 1.1, 3/29/2009 04:18PM PST

(4 of 5 users found this comment useful)

John Hilgenberg
If you don't like some of the new features in Safari, let Safari 4 Buddy put you back in control.

I disabled all the new features and Safari is much faster.

Quick and easy. I could not be happier.
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