How to regain features from Safari 5 that are not found in Safari 6?
I upgraded to Mountain Lion, there are a lot of differences in Safari 6.
Have the four features below been relocated?
If not relocated, are there fixes?
- Activity window (previously: Window -> Activity) is gone.
- Bonjour access from the bookmarks menu is gone.
- Ability to empty cache (previously: Safari -> Empty Cache) is gone.
- delete/backspace key no longer works for going to the previous page.
Solution 1:
The action for emptying caches was moved to the develop menu:
You can still see resources in the web inspector:
To download YouTube videos, reload the page after opening the web inspector and double-click the videoplayback resource. To download it, you have to focus the location bar and press ⌥↩. ⌘S only saves some metadata.
Solution 2:
Actually, Bonjour is still there, but you have to include it yourself. Just go to Preferences > Bookmarks, and enable what you'd like there.
Solution 3:
The delete/backspace key navigation has been removed.
To restore it:
- Quit Safari.
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Open Terminal and enter this code at the command line:
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2BackspaceKeyNavigationEnabled -bool YES
Restart Safari.
Solution 4:
Bring any tab to foreground
I used the Activity window of Safari 5.x to switch between tabs. Effective for all tabs of all windows, including windows that were minimised before quit. Very quick and simple:
- double-click.
Without the Activity window
Sessions 1.3.0.2
The popover works as expected – click and hold the toolbar item to reveal a menu.
The manager, which appears in a separate tab, fails to list reopened windows that were minimised before quit. I reported this bug to the developer, with reference to this post.
Solution 5:
Bonjour access from the bookmarks menu is gone.
Well I found out that in Mountain Lion, Bonjour is available from Safari > Bookmarks > Bonjour > Device.
I still haven't figured out the other problems.