Safari 4: How to get back tabs in titlebar

Even though in earlier articles I mentioned my preference for Opera browser, I recently switched to Safari 4. The version was beta and the fact for which I loved the browser was its speed and tabs in the titlebar. However, when the final version was released I was sort of disapointed as it is remarkably slower and the tabs in the titlebar have gone.

There are ways how to downgrade back to beta, but I found them too complicated. The point is extracting the Safari.app from the beta (which is hardly available anymore) and then putting in the place of installed Safari 4 final into the Applications directory. Well, I did the extraction, uploaded the .app file to rapidshare and up to you is just getting it to your App directory.

Safari4.0BetaSecUpdateLeo.dmg

Obviously the Safari 4 Beta does not work so easily on Snow Leopard. I recently found out, that it is possible to use it anyway. You have to replace the Info.plist file by the current version:

Open the package of current Safari and fetch the Info.plist and Version.plist file.
Paste it into the downloaded Safari4Beta.

The only problem is the keychain. You have to create a new keychain certificate in the „Keychain Access“ utility and set it to „Trusted“. Than just write in the command line:

codesign -s Name_of_created_certificate -v Safari.app -f

There is also a discussion on macosxhints concerning this.