Customize the icon on Safari's error page

Jun 23, '05 08:59:00AM

Contributed by: allentown

When you do something that causes an error in Safari (try loading this site, for instance), you'll get an error page with a big Safari icon and then the text of the error message. If you find the large icon boring and/or ugly, here's how to change it.

Quit Safari, and then in the Finder, control-click on the Safari application. Choose Show Package Contents in the pop-up menu, then navigate to Contents -> Resources. In there you'll find error-page-icon.tif, which is a large version of the Safari icon. You can edit that image (save a copy of the orignial, of course!), and the next time you get an error in Safari, you will get your custom image instead.

[robg adds: There are also TIFF files for each of the border sides, so you could change those as well, if you wished. Dig around in the folder a bit, and you'll see many other images that Safari uses at various times. Just keep in mind that your customizations could vanish with the next system update.]

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