Mix Safari 4 Beta and Final to get tabs on top

Jun 11, '09 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: petersconsult

Just a quick note to those who, like me, greatly miss the 'tabs in the title bar' feature of Safari 4 Beta in the final release of Safari:

After installing Safari 4.0 Final, I was quite disappointed to no longer have the 'tabs in title bar,' but I still had both the app and the installer from the last Safari 4 Public Beta (remember there were two main versions; the last one was published on May 12) on another disk, and I noticed that it launches just fine using all the underpinnings of the final version.

I'm sure it's not 100% compatible, but we all know that most of the meaningful components of Safari are *not* in the app itself. In fact, I'm using it right now to write this.

In short, you can install the final Safari 4.0, then use Pacifist to extract just the app from the Public Beta disk image. Better yet, if you still have the beta, rename it to something like Safari_beta.app, and you'll be able to use the tabs in the title bar again, as well as any of the customization tricks found here and elsewhere.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one, as I no longer have the beta installer around. I also don't know what issues, if any, this may cause.]

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