Restore the Progress Bar

February 24th, 2009

Apple removed the progress bar from Safari 4, for reasons completely beyond me. Luckily, though, you can restore it by putting this in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari AlwaysShowTabBar -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO

That’s the biggest issue I’ve had with Safari 4. The progress bar was my favorite thing about Safari, and it baffles me that Apple would remove it.

(Thanks to Faruk Ates for the tip.)