Safari 4: How to Remove CoverFlow from the Bookmarks View

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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5 Responses to “Safari 4: How to Remove CoverFlow from the Bookmarks View”

  1. March 12, 2009 at 1:35 am, Anonymous said:

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

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  2. June 08, 2009 at 10:41 pm, gary said:

    this no longer works! :(

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  3. June 12, 2009 at 1:15 am, turtle_mac said:

    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.

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  4. June 15, 2009 at 7:42 pm, Jan Barelds said:

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

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  5. June 30, 2009 at 7:12 pm, ferdly said:

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

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