With the advent of, it seemed that the was gone, replaced by the new Develop menu. As it turns out, that's not the case at all; the Debug menu is still available in Safari 4, but it's now activated with a new command. While the debug menu contains a number of commands that are of interest mainly to developers, there are a couple of options that 'regular' users may also find interesting. For instance, a Force Repaint command (Shift-Command-R) will redraw the current screen without reloading the site (as would happen with Command-R). This can be very useful if you're one of those affected by the that many users have reported. You can also use the Debug menu to see a full list of keyboard and mouse shortcuts, and to view detailed information on caches; you can even clear various caches from this screen. If these features sound useful to you, here's how to enable the Debug menu in Safari 4, thanks to readers chleuasme and Frederico. Quit Safari if it's running and open Terminal, in Applications -> Utilities. Copy and paste the following command, then press Return: defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1 When you relaunch Safari, you'll find a new Debug menu, located to the right of the Help menu. There's no help available for everything in this menu, though most options are relatively self-explanatory. If you ever tire of the Debug menu, quit Safari, then repeat the above command, but replace the 1 with a 0. Press Return when done, and Safari will no longer have a Debug menu. See more like this: *, * This story, 'Add a Debug menu to Safari 4' was originally published. You can enable the debug menu by editing the Preferences.plist file which you can find in the C: Documents and Settings Your Username Application Data Apple Computer Safari directory. It’s just an XML file. Use your favorite text editor to open it. Jan 10, 2017. To use it you must enable it in Safari Preferences. Click on the Advanced tab and check the box beside the phrase “Show Develop menu in menu bar” at the bottom of the pane. You will now see a new Menu item appear between your Bookmarks and Windows menus. Most Mac users won't need to make. Safari's Debug menu allows developers to debug web pages and code, but it also provides a few tidbits for everyday browser users that can be very helpful. As you probably know, Safari 3 doesn't allow you to turn on the debug menu within any settings dialogs. It also doesn't come with a JavaScript Debugger either.
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