Safari 3.0 and Taboo
Friday, June 29th, 2007
In the old days, before 3.0, Safari had an annoying habit. If you pressed Cmd-Q with many windows and tabs open, then Safari would quit. This could be incredibly frustrating; especially when you accidentally pressed Q instead of W.
Taboo, a questionable InputManager hack, provided a work around.
Safari 3.0 fixes it properly. Apple has included the option of prompting the user on close if multiple tabs or windows are open.
However, if Taboo is still installed, you cannot close top level windows.
Taboo lives in one of the following two directories.
~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins
/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins
Remove it, and Safari 3.0 will work as intended.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Awesome. I had a feeling this was the problem, but my 5 minutes of Googling didn’t turn much up. Thanks!
November 28th, 2007 at 8:11 am
Works as advertised. Thanks!
January 11th, 2008 at 7:28 am
I just found this searching the “interwebs”… I don’t have taboo on my machine, but safari 3.0.4 does not prompt me about closing tabs.
I hate that and would prefer to be warned.
Any ideas on how I can activate this in Safari, or other solutions?
thanks,
z.
January 13th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
In Safari 3.x, see the Confirm when closing multiple pages option in the Tabs tab of the preferences. It will prompt if you try to quit Safari with multiple tabs open.
I’m not aware of a way of prompting on close of each tab.