Move the tab bar on Safari 4 and other hidden preferences

Safari Buddy v1.0 makes it simple to change often requested hidden preferences.

A Mac OS X Utility that enables the ability to change several hidden preferences in the Safari 4 Public Beta web browser, such as: moving the Tab Bar, reverting the Progress Style indicator, disabling Google Suggest and Top Sites and more.

I think the tabs on top approach is intended to show the tabs open across multiple open Safari 4 windows without you having to click on the underneath windw, or they're simply copying Google's Chrome.

Freeware from:
http://www.swoon.net/site/software.html

Terminal method to directly set preference:

To quickly change the tabs to the old Safari 3 position enter the following into terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO

To change tabs back to the top, enter again but with -bool YES at the end.

Known Safari 4 bugs on Mac

• Breaks Wordpress add link function on blogs
• Hotmail doesn't work fully
• GMail logged in on http:// rather than https:// doesn't work
• Resorts the currency convertor widget on Dashboard so that the lists are out of sync and therefore creates incorrect conversions.
• Breaks Mail when Growlmail is installed.

Update: the full release of v4 in June fixed many of these issues.

Safari 4 Mac breaks currency converter widget

Resorts the panels so they mismatch currencies. Clever.

http://tinyurl.com/d5b9z4

How to manually remove GrowlMail plugin if safari 4 causes Mail to Crash

• Quit Mail
• Delete the GrowlMail plugin stored in your Library, here ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
• Logout and log back in again.

Sync Safari and Firefox bookmarks

http://www.foxmarks.com/

Foxmarks (free) is a plugin for both Firefox and Safari which will keep your bookmarks in sync between these browsers across multiple computers. Also supports something called Internet Explorer. You can also access your bookmarks on their website when away from your computer. Started by the chap who created Lotus 1-2-3, Mitch Kapor, who was heavily involved in the early stages of Firefox.