ksafari: Commands to take back control

Safari Users Toolchest
* {Type|Copy|Drag-and-Drop} all text in red in Terminal

#1. Quit Safari

#2. Open Terminal

#3. Safari History Clean, type into terminal:
computer$ rm -fr ~/Library/Safari/History.plist

#4. Safari Downloads Clean, type into terminal:
computer$ rm -fr ~/Library/Safari/Downloads.plist

#5. Safari Icons Cache Clean, type into terminal:
computer$ rm -fr ~/Library/Safari/Icons/* 2

#6. Turn off Safari Caches for Broadband Users (Speedup for people who don't web upload files)

To enable this behaviour, type into terminal:
computer$ rm -fr ~/Library/Caches/Safari;ln -s /dev/null ~/Library/Caches/Safari

To disable this behaviour (use when temporarily enabling the above if you need to upload a file with Safari), type into terminal:
computer$ rm ~/Library/Caches/Safari

#7. Turn off Safari Icon Caching (Speedup)

To enable this behaviour, type into terminal:
computer$ rm -fr ~/Library/Safari/Icons;ln -s /dev/null ~/Library/Safari/Icons

To disable this behaviour, type into terminal:
computer$ rm ~/Library/Safari/Icons

#8. Remove the imposed time delay to read web pages

To enable this behaviour, type into terminal:
computer$ defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 0.000001

To disable this behaviour, type into terminal:
computer$ defaults delete com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay

#9. Ensure extra security is enabled preventing Safari from automatically opening downloaded files without the users control, type into terminal:
computer$ defaults write com.apple.Safari AutoOpenSafeDownloads -boolean false

#10. Run Safari, feel the joy

Optional & Troubleshooting Enhancements:

[Limit the History to a specific number of websites (last 10 for example)]
computer$ defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitHistoryItemLimit 10

[Make Safari download PDF documents as it did in OS X versions prior to 10.4.x Tiger]
To enable this behaviour, type into terminal:
computer$ defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES

To disable this behaviour, type into terminal:
computer$ defaults delete com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport

[Turn on the Debug menu]
To enable this behaviour, type into terminal:
computer$ defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu -boolean true

To disable this behaviour, type into terminal:
computer$ defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu -boolean false

[Remove Google Search Bar]
To enable this behaviour, type into terminal:
computer$ defaults write com.apple.Safari AddressBarIncludesGoogle -boolean false

To disable this behaviour, type into terminal:
computer$ defaults write com.apple.Safari AddressBarIncludesGoogle -boolean true

[Reset Safari from thinking it has imported IE favorites]
computer$ defaults write com.apple.Safari IEFavoritesWereImported -boolean false

[Reset Safari from thinking it has imported Netscape/Mozilla favorites]
computer$ defaults write com.apple.Safari NetscapeAndMozillaFavoritesWereImported -boolean false

Jan J.