Safari Help

[adsl3g]

So i had my adsl upped to 4096kbps (took 24 hrs) and now I am looking at videos on CNN with safari as Firefox just shows a black frame with sound.
Some irritations - how do I kill the tooltips? box when hovering over a thread in myadsl?
Secondly - is there not a 'add new tab' icon that I can put on the toolbar?
..any other cool tips would help as well - or maybe a link to a site?
Ta

 

[bwana]

I prefer keystrokes but for a new tab button download SafariStand.

While you're at it get acidsearch and pithhelmet.

Not sure how you would kill mouse overs - not sure why you would want to. How did you achieve it in ff?

 

[adsl3g]

I prefer keystrokes but for a new tab button download SafariStand.

While you're at it get acidsearch and pithhelmet.

Not sure how you would kill mouse overs - not sure why you would want to. How did you achieve it in ff?

Under about:config, there is a setting to disable them in FF - can't remember where - I always google it when I need to do it.

Thanks for the tips - will look at them

 

[bwana]

This is a solution for Safari 2 but it also works for 3 apparently.

Not too long ago, I was toying around with one of the many third-party tools that allow you to modify how your Mac works. During my testing, I enabled a setting that made those little yellow tooltips pop-up every time I hovered over a URL in Safari. Ugh. Within a week or two, I couldn't take it anymore, and wanted to turn them off again. However, I could not locate the program that I had used to enable them -- I probably had trashed it shortly after trying it out.

So, a little Unix juju to the rescue. First, I had to find where that option was set; it's not a regular preference, as far as I could find. After quitting Safari, I typed this at a Terminal prompt:

defaults read com.apple.Safari | grep -i tooltip | grep -v grep

This search would show me if anything containing the word "tooltip" was present in Safari's settings file. Bingo; the search found a line that read:

WebKitShowsURLsInToolTips = 1;

This result naturally suggested one more command in Terminal.app to turn that "feature" off:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitShowsURLsInToolTips 0

And voila; no more tooltips. Whew! Of course, for those who like those things, replacing the 0 with a 1 in the second command above will enable the tooltips.