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Terminal Window?

glosterseagul said:
can't do it tho?

:confused:
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Where are you stuck? It works for me by following these steps:

1. Quit Safari
2. Open Terminal
3. Type in (without quotes) 'defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1'
4. Open Safari. The Debug menu should be to the right of the Help menu. Under the User Agent submenu select the browser of choice.

If you ever want to turn the Debug menu off, repeat those steps but type 'defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 0' into Terminal instead.
 
HexMonkey said:
Where are you stuck? It works for me by following these steps:

1. Quit Safari
2. Open Terminal
3. Type in (without quotes) 'defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1'
4. Open Safari. The Debug menu should be to the right of the Help menu. Under the User Agent submenu select the browser of choice.

If you ever want to turn the Debug menu off, repeat those steps but type 'defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 0' into Terminal instead.
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Don't forget to press return after typing that stuff in the terminal!
 
Hex, we meet again. Are you using Panther or Jaguar? I took a shot of your "type In' and made sure I followed it exactly .. hit return opened Safari and no change. I use Jaguar is the command line different?

PS the "1" is there I just cropped it out by mistake.
 
Sparky's said:
Hex, we meet again. Are you using Panther or Jaguar? I took a shot of your "type In' and made sure I followed it exactly .. hit return opened Safari and no change. I use Jaguar is the command line different?

PS the "1" is there I just cropped it out by mistake.
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I'm using Panther. In the screenshot, I did notice one mistake though. It says 'appl' but it should be 'apple'. What this is essentially doing is looking in the Safari preferences file and changing one of the settings. So if the line in Terminal still doesn't work, find com.apple.safari.plist in your Preferences folder and then edit it like follows:
a) If you have Property List Editor (I think it's among the developer things), double click it, click the triangle by root, find 'IncludeDebugMenu' and change the contents of the string to 1.
b) Otherwise, open it in a text editor, find '<key>IncludeDebugMenu</key>' and then in the following string tag change the 0 to 1. Make sure the text editor doesn't change the file's format when it saves though.
 
Or Cocktail, or just about any system maintenance/modification app.

For a second, I thought you wanted Safari to behave like IE :)eek: ), but I noticed you just want it to masquerade as IE, which is much better :)
 
Counterfit said:
Or Cocktail, or just about any system maintenance/modification app.

For a second, I thought you wanted Safari to behave like IE :)eek: ), but I noticed you just want it to masquerade as IE, which is much better :)
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Wooo hoooo! There's a whole new world out there!

It feels like Ive just discovered the Matrix!

I just logged on to my bank using Safari that only "works with IE!"

Thanks for your help the key was quitting out of Safari first and pressing return! apart from those teeny things I had it sorted! :rolleyes: LOL or not!


So what esle is terminal used for...and what esle can I add to safari?
 
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