If you ever wished to get the good, old reload button back in Safari 4, here’s a great tutorial from elasticthreads (you can reach him on Tumblr or Twitter) to acheive this.
I tried it and it works perfectly.
Enjoy!
Download the files here.
- Go to your Applications Folder and find Safari. Right-click, or control-click, on it to get a contextual menu. Choose “Show Package Contents”
- In the Safari.App folder that just opened, go to Contents/Resources.
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Copy ToolbarReloadButton.png and ReloadPressed.png into this folder.
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In the Contents/Resources folder, go to the Language-of-your-choice.lproj folder. for English speakers that’s the English.lproj folder.
- Find “ToolbarItems.nib” and copy this somewhere as a backup.
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Copy the “ToolbarItems.nib” that you downloaded with this tweak into the .lproj folder, replacing the original.
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Restart Safari. Then right click on the Toolbar and choose customize toolbar and drag your new stop/reload button onto your toolbar.
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Reload reload reload the next time Steve Jobs has one more thing…
–Disclaimer: it’s not quite the old stop/reload button, not visually. The old one changed its icon from a reload icon to an “x” (for stop) when a page was loading. This button still acts the exact same. Clicking it while a page is loading will still stop it from loading. But it doesn’t change its icon. It’s always the reload arrow… Sorry.
