Safari 4: How to Remove CoverFlow from the Bookmarks View
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Apple Mac Safari 4 has incorporated CoverFlow into the Bookmarks view. If you find that this is a bit much for you, you can remove CoverFlow so that your bookmarks are simply listed like they used to be.
1. Open Terminal.
2. Execute the following command:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeFlowViewInBookmarksView -bool NO
Restart Safari. Your bookmarks will no longer be displayed in CoverFlow.
Your Bookmarks view will go from this:
to this:
To return to the CoverFlow display, execute the following command:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeFlowViewInBookmarksView -bool YES
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Anonymous said on March 12, 2009
i think cover flow is a bit to much, usual simple list is better
gary said on June 8, 2009
this no longer works! :(
turtle_mac said on June 12, 2009
This didn’t work for me! I hate that macs are supposed to be so easy to use yet the help menu sucks and you always have to look for help online! They should simply have an option on whether or not you want to have add-ons like this on the computer.
Jan Barelds said on June 15, 2009
The command line to stop cover flow, also did not work on my computer, 24 inch Intel MAC
ferdly said on June 30, 2009
That may have worked in the beta, but it doesn’t seem to have any effect on the released version.