How to revert Safari 6 Web Inspector?

The new Safari 6 Web Inspector UI is a usability nightmare for me due to loads of tabs/panes with small icons and no labels.

It also seems to complicate common tasks like showing a list of XHR requests and their responses.

Is there any way to revert the look and feel of the Web Inspector in Safari 6 to (more) how it was in previous versions?

The new Web Inspector was made to be a bit closer to Xcode.

There is no direct way to get the old one back, without reverting to other means. For example:

• running Lion in a VM (to run an older Safari).
• Running a nightly build of WebKit - but this may only have the new inspector
• Using Chrome (while still WebKit, it still uses something that seemed closer to me like the old inspector).

So no, at this time, it doesn't look like its possible to revert back to an 'older' version of the inspector. The best bet would be to submit bugs at http://bugreporter.apple.com. If it is missing features that the old one had, possibly future revisions would bring some of this back.

just install the latest nightly build of safari: http://nightly.webkit.org/ Then, you'll have the option to "Use Webkit Web Inspector". Yeah!

There IS a way to have your old web inspector back.

1. Quit Safari (or other apps that use the web inspector)

2. Go to Finder, then hit "CMD-Shift-G". Alternatively, click "Go" from the menubar, then "Go To Folder".

3. Enter this and hit Enter: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/WebInspector.framework/Versions/Current/Resources

   I recommend that you backup the contents of this folder before proceeding

4. Move contents of the folder "inspector" from the zip-file which you can download from the link below. Enter password if asked and replace already existing files.

   Copy the contents of the inspector-folder, not the folder itself.

5. Start Safari again and inspect away! :c)

Download the files here (Zip file).

Everything you need is inside. Hope this helps!