Safari 4 Beta was introduced with some eye-catching new features, one of them being a merged tab bar and title bar similar to Google Chrome. In the next version of Safari, however, this feature disappeared. If you’d like to save a little bit of screen space or just like to see all of your tabs in the title bar, follow these steps to download and run Safari 4 Beta.
- Download Safari 4 Beta for Leopard from Apple here:
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/Safari4/061-4669.20090224.lpsaf/Safari4.0BetaLeo.dmg. If you simply wanted to replace your current version of Safari, you could run the installer from the disk image, but since you probably want to keep the current version installed as well, the following steps will tell you how to install the previous version non-destructively. - Download Payload Extractor (free) here: http://hactheplanet.com/download/Payload Extractor 1.0.dmg. You can leave the application on the disk image if you don’t want to install it.
- Drag the Safari installation package (named Safari4.0BetaLeo.pkg) from the Safari 4 disk image onto the Payload Extractor application.
- Let Payload Extractor find and decompress the installation files (it will take about 25 seconds on a relatively new Mac). When it is done, it will show a list of all the files that would have been installed if you were to have installed the package normally.
- Drag Safari.app from Payload Extractor to your desktop or to an open Finder window:
Dragging the old version of Safari to my desktop so I don't overwrite the newer one in my Applications folder
- Launch your new Safari application from the Finder. Your bookmarks, history, and preferences will automatically be shared between both versions of Safari, so you should have no problems switching back and forth.
Browsing the web with Safari 4 Beta
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