June 19, 2007
Use an alternate Safari progress bar
Posted Jun. 19, ’07, 6:40 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Tips
You might be one of those people that really dislikes the way that Safari shows progress by filling the location bar from left to right. Sometimes I like it, sometimes it makes me think the text is selected. I’m on the fence.
There wasn’t much recourse until the 3.0 beta. You can now use a pie chart progress indicator in case that’s more your style. It takes one quick Terminal command to enable it.
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugUsePieProgressIndicator -bool true
If you have Terminal user’s regret after changing it, it’s easy to undo.
defaults delete com.apple.Safari DebugUsePieProgressIndicator
Which is your cup of tea?
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I've always really loved the address bar progress bar. I'd be willing to give the pie chart thing a chance though. It's still int the adress bar...what does it do, hide the little icon to the left of the address for awhile?
I have always liked the progress indicator. To deal with the whole selected text confusion I rely on the fact that they look totally different. The gradient in the progress indicator, the whitespace around selected text, the way the progress indicator...progresses. I have never had an issue with that.
You can also do this in Safari for Windows.
Add
to c:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari\Preferences.plisthm, for me it doesnt work don't know why. I typed in the command an hit enter. Then restarted Safari but still prograss bar.