Safari Aqua look

Mon, 9 January 2006

To remove Brushed Metal theme from Safari 2.0 in Tiger and make it look like on the picture below here’s what you need to do.

Firstly you have to make sure you have developer tools installed on your Mac. If you haven’t got it please see instructions how to install it.

Now we need to dig a little to get to the stuff we need.

Open your Finder and right-click the Safari icon. Select Show Package Contents and the new window will open. Open Contents, Resources and then English.Iproj. (or your local language) Find the file called Browser.nib and double-click to open.

Select Tools / Show Inspector and the inspector window will open. All you need to do is to un-tick Has texture and save the file.

If you can’t see section of the inspector please find the window below and click on Window (highlighted). Then your inspector will look like the one on the picture above.

If you’d like to have the title bar like in Panther then you can enable it by un-ticking unified title/toolbar look.
But i wouldn’t recommend this because I have experienced two problems, address bar is always highlighted, even when not selected and …