Safari 4 has a predictive search option, as was previously available with various 3rd party apps and with Firefox. This predictive search also has a short list of recently used search strings. When you use the Empty Cache… option it doesn’t clear out the recent searches. Being curious about how to do clear them (without doing a repetitive search through the list with random data) I went hunting. These are stored in RecentSearchStrings in the com.apple.safari domain. To clear them out, simply issue the following command: defaults delete com.apple.safari RecentSearchStrings Now quit Safari and re-open and viola, a fresh, new empty list. Another item that can be managed with the…
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Safari 4 Beta
The Safari 4 beta has been posted on Apple for awhile and there are people talking about it on the interwebs. So my turn. But rather than wax poetically about browser wars, which seems to be what everyone else is doing, I’ll constrain the conversation to the Safari 4 beta, which you can download from here. If you haven’t moved into tabbed browsing yet, then after you install the upgrade you’re likely not going to notice much of a change. When you open Safari it will look a little like it always looked, with some minor enhancements to the GUI – notably the little picture of a bug in the…