Safari 4: How to Remove CoverFlow from the Bookmarks View

Posted March 8, 2009 by Rob Rogers in 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

    i think cover flow is a bit to much, usual simple list is better

  • gary

    this no longer works! 🙁

  • turtle_mac

    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

    The command line to stop cover flow, also did not work on my computer, 24 inch Intel MAC

  • ferdly

    That may have worked in the beta, but it doesn’t seem to have any effect on the released version.

  • ren

    doesn’t work, please give an update that works with Lion!!!!

  • David Kirk

    Thanks for reporting that this content is not working. We are currently looking for a solution. If a solution is not found in a timely fashion, I will remove this tutorial. Thanks for helping us. Sorry we don’t have an answer right now.