Downgrading from Safari 6 to 5.1.7?!

[b13o0r12e3]

no luck BRLawyer

Check the link I've posted above for finding it...then you MUST move it to a different place like your desktop, remove the dot from it and unzip the file. Unless ML already deleted that backup, which I would find improbable...

nah i can't find it, the backup has been deleted

i do have the install DMG of Safari 5.1.7 for Lion downloaded from Softpedia, is there any way of extracting the files to put back from there?!

 

[InuNacho]

I have been so much in love with apple for about 20 years. For the last couple of years, I have been falling out of love. Apple seems to "know better" than us users, and decide how our experience should be. Well, sorry to say, but for a while now, they have been taking me--and I think I am not alone--down a blind alley where everything becomes murkier and more difficult and more "well, buddy, if you do not like our new stuff, then too bad because it means you don't know what's good". I think that apple has been going ahead of itself while trying to stay ahead of the competition.

I agree, I stuck with SL because I couldn't adjust to Mission Control, no color, and autosave. Now that ML is out they strip Safari of some of it's most basic parts that I use everyday: backspace and Activity.

 

[Yamcha]

Since you have a Macbook why not use the trackpad to go back and forward? Thats what I've been doing.. It's a two finger swipe to the left or right.

 

[InuNacho]

Since you have a Macbook why not use the trackpad to go back and forward? Thats what I've been doing.. It's a two finger swipe to the left or right.

I'm using a MBP but I never use the trackpad unless I'm sitting in bed, I'm always using a mouse and it's just easier to slap the delete button instead of a two finger swipe or some other keycombo.

 

[thomaskc]

I'm using a MBP but I never use the trackpad unless I'm sitting in bed, I'm always using a mouse and it's just easier to slap the delete button instead of a two finger swipe or some other keycombo.

Good old Firefox still does just that! Also scrolls better wen using a pen

 

[rorschach]

https://sites.google.com/site/solushex/keystroke

 

[davidohio]

Another option:

- copy paste Safari 5.1.2 to your desktop.
- remove Safari 6 from your menu bar
- launch Safari 5.1.2
- keep icon in menu bar

This will still keep S6 in your apps folder but leaving the S5
on your desktop will always launch via the menu bar. Wait
till there's a fix for 6 and re-evaluate.

HTH

 

[pdjudd]

4 | http(s) section of a web address is not shown

I signed to my banks website which uses HTTPS from the get go. Safari 6 not only shows a lock icon (to indicate security as before) it shows a box right next to it that says HTTPS. So it ill show HTTPS when you use it. otherwise you assume that it's normal HTTP. Perhaps an extension might fix this. I dunno.

 

[jw2002]

I was able to downgrade to Safari 5.1.7 in Mountain Lion as follows via the unix command line. First I made sure to run a time machine backup just in case I made an fatal mistakes. Also, I made sure to quit Safari. Next, I mounted time machine backup volume (not by running Time Machine) and went to my most recent backup prior to upgrading to ML:

% cd /Volumes/Backup\ of\ jw2002/Backups.backupdb/2012-07-26-145227

Next I tarred up all the folders that I thought might be related to a Safari installation:

% sudo tar cf sudo tar cf /tmp/prevSafari.tar Applications/Safari.app/ \
    System/Library/SyncServices/AutoRegistration/Schemas/com.apple.Safari.syncschema \
    System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari \
    System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SyndicationUI.framework \
    System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Safari.framework \
    System/Library/Frameworks/PubSub.framework \
    "Library/Widgets/Web Clip.wdgt"

and finally I did a cd to the root of my primary volume and untarred the archive in place:

% cd /
% sudo tar xpf /tmp/prevSafari.tar

Note the 'p' in the final tar command to make sure that permissions are preserved upon extracting the archive. Finally, I double clicked the Safari icon in the dock and confirmed that it loaded correctly and was of version 5.1.7.

 

[jedijiver]

I just used Pacifist 3.0.8 to install the Safari 5.1.7 package over 6. It took 2 minutes and a couple of clicks - easy as pie and now I'm back to the Activity window. I'm using it to write this post.

Cheers
-JJ

 

[psakke]

Edit. Ops, not for ML.

This worked for me http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/59342/26707 when Safari 5 kept crashing at launch after a plain Pacifist re-install. No command line required.

 

[bvkoski]

To jedijiver who wrote:

"I just used Pacifist 3.0.8 to install the Safari 5.1.7 package over 6. It took 2 minutes and a couple of clicks - easy as pie and now I'm back to the Activity window"
--------------------------
Could you please explain the steps you used in accomplishing this? I have Pacifist 3.0.8 and I don't have a clue what you did. Thanks.
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EDIT:
SUCCESS!!!!
IGNORE MY EARLIER QUESTION. psakke's post of http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/59342/26707
worked for me. ALL IS GOOD.

 

[psakke]

SUCCESS!!!!
IGNORE MY EARLIER QUESTION. psakke's post of http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/59342/26707
worked for me. ALL IS GOOD.

So it did work on Mountain Lion also? If so, good that I didn't delete my post.

 

[AnotherScott]

You can get all the functionality of the activity window in the Web Inspector, which is enabled in the preferences by checking "Show Develop in the menu bar"

That doesn't restore the easy ability to download a video from some sites, as you could in the old Activity Window.

Other issues:

I hate the combined URL and search bar. I liked being able to type something into the URL bar and have it automatically append the .com - if I wanted to search instead, all I had to do was tap the Tab key. Much better. The problem with Apple guessing what I want is that Apple sometimes guesses wrong.

For some reason, I get somewhat frequent tabs that freeze up or generate an error. Copying and pasting the URL into a new tab will load the page just fine, so there's nothing wrong with the URL, Safari 6--at least on Lion--just seems less robust and more error prone than 5.1 was.

In general, I have found more downside than upside to Apple's "upgrades" lately. I only moved to Lion because I had no choice when I got my new Air, though I have to say I really like the much faster booting. I am tempted to get Mountain Lion just to get "Save As" back, I don't think it has anything else I care about. But I would like confirmation that I will be able to revert to Safari 5.1 if I go to ML.

EDIT: One more 6.0 issue I forgot to mention... I miss having a separate Downloads window. And for some reason, a lot of stuff "disappears" from the new Download pop-up... it doesn't seem to consistently show everything.

 

[dcorban]

I'm using a MBP but I never use the trackpad unless I'm sitting in bed, I'm always using a mouse

What the… You have an Apple glass trackpad and you choose to use a mouse?

Someone call the mental ward, because this guy is nuts! The trackpad alone is worth switching to a Mac!

And what in the world are people doing with the activity window? The only reason I have ever seen given is "to download youtube videos" and you can easily do that with clicktoflash, or probably any number of Safari extensions, and it's a hell of a lot easier.

Clicktoflash supports 11 different video sites and allows you to easily download the source from each.

 

[scottwaugh]

For folks looking for a way to rollback to 5.1.7 (get RSS, page update indicators and much better memory performance back), this nice guy has a link to the last uninstaller for the v6 beta which works with 6.0 on Lion only (not sure about 6.01 or 6.02):

http://steevepatrick.com/

Seems like that uninstaller been cleansed from much of the rest of the net. I just rolled back from 6 after getting sick of the memory issues 6 has. 5.1.7 even though it has RSS and those page update indicators etc. is much better at keeping its memory from growing like a monster over time.