Video: Restoring Safari 4 Using Custom Hidden Settings

UPDATE (6-10-2009) Safari 4 have been updated for Snow Leopard and no longer has the tabs on the top.

Safari 4 Has some problems. We know this but at the same time Safari 4 offers us some more speed and flexibility. So rather than go back to previous versions here are 3 ways to bring back functionality from v3 but keep the speed and search-ability of v4.

Resources Mentioned in Video: Safari 4 Buddy – Free application Secret Safari 4 Menu – Menu File for Safari 4   Terminal Commands: 1. Move Tabs to bottom

$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO

2. Loading Bars & Circle When both set to NO it restores the blue loading bar behind the URL. Also puts a page loading spinner in the tab itself, which looks odd with the new tabs:
 

$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO
$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO

        3. Switch off the new URL autocomplete menu and go back to the original one

$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeFancyURLCompletionList -bool NO

4. Turn off the new Google suggest menu

$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeGoogleSuggest -bool NO

5. Remove CoverFlow from the Bookmarks view entirely        

$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeFlowViewInBookmarksView -bool NO

        6. Disable the dimming when clicking on a Top Site

$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TopSitesZoomToPageAnimationDimsSnapshot -bool NO

7. Disable Top Sites feature completely

$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeTopSites -bool NO

8. Undoing changes Just run the defaults command with the delete flag for the appropriate key you wish to delete.

$ defaults delete com.apple.Safari <key>