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Showing Safari 4 bookmarks without Cover Flow

The bookmarks in Safari 4 are shown using Cover Flow. If you have a lot of bookmarks, you may find this visual eye-candy to be a distraction that slows you down from getting to your bookmarks quickly. If you want to set your bookmarks back so that they are shown as a list, open a terminal window and run this command:

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeFlowViewInBookmarksView -bool NO

Your bookmarks will then be shown normally. If you want to go back to the Cover Flow display, you can reset it back by running this command in the terminal

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeFlowViewInBookmarksView -bool YES
Rating: 66% positive, 3 total Votes
Categories: Safari browsers customization terminal
Added: on Mar 09, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Added By: an anonymous user
Searches: safari bookmark terminal flow cover

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works fast and perfectly. it might be useful to include a tip on where to find and how to use terminal for non-experts.
– Added by an anonymous user on May 28, 2009 at 12:46 pm
No longer works - must be a beta only fix.
– Added by an anonymous user on Jun 15, 2009 at 5:20 am
Does not work in Safari 4.0.2
– Added by an anonymous user on Aug 14, 2009 at 7:15 am
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