Safari 3 - Not Just on Windows

Tue, 06/12/2007 - 12:43.

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Steve Jobs announced the availability of Safari 3.0 Public Beta during yesterday's WWDC Keynote. For audience at large the biggest news about the release was that it is now available on Windows, as well. However, apparently there is a "hidden" (well, unpublicized) new feature that is just as exciting for Mac geeks like moi - Web Inpsector.

Web Inspector is a context menu-activated DOM analyzer a-la FireBug for Firefox. This thing is sweet (!) and will make Safari troubleshooting much nicer, from now on.

Thanks, Apple! Well done.

How? Where?

Submitted by dharris on Tue, 06/12/2007 - 13:56.

I don't see it on my (windows/safari) context menu -- are there special instructions to get this working?

OS X Only

Submitted by irakli on Tue, 06/12/2007 - 14:40.

This feature is present only in OS X (hence the "Mac geeks" in the initial post). Sorry :) Hopefully they will add it to Windows version, as well, once the release is final. Let's hope it is a beta-version problem.

The feature should be there on Tiger, though. The screenshot is from Tiger installation of Safari 3. It is not Leopard-only.

Where is this feature ?

Submitted by Alex (not verified) on Tue, 06/12/2007 - 14:05.

I'm using the new Safari on 10.4.9 and I don't see this feature anywhere... is it only available on Safari on Leopard ?

You should be able to

Submitted by Rob (not verified) on Tue, 06/12/2007 - 14:34.

You should be able to right-click on an element in the page and have "Inspect Element" listed as an option. If not, type this into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true

Then just relaunch Safari v3 and the option is there.

Great tip, Rob

Submitted by irakli on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 14:49.

Thanks Rob, great suggestion.

On my Mac the debugger just worked, but on some other OS-X installation the feature did not show up after Safari 3 upgrade and running the command you posted turned it on.