Safari 4: How to Move the Tabs Back to the Tab Bar

Contributor Icon Contributed by shamanstears Date Icon March 4, 2009  
Tag Icon Tagged: Apple Mac

If you don’t like that Safari 4 has the tabs located at the very top of the browser window, you can move them back to the Tab Bar like they were in Safari 3.

1. Open Terminal.

2. Execute the following command:

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO

Restart Safari. If you don’t see the Tab Bar, go to the Menu, click on View and select Show Tab Bar.

Your tabs go from this:

to this:

To return the tabs back to their original position, open Terminal and execute the following command:

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool YES

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  • vipersonic
    how do we windows users do that?
  • i think it's only for Mac OS.

    it's a pity! :(
  • Ken Hayward
    Tried this on Safari 4 Build 5528.17 and the format it accepted was:

    defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop NO
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