No refresh button!

If you want to get the blue loading bar, reload button etc back, close Safari, and enter this in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO

then reopen Safari.

Hi Again,

As for a self-update,
I have also posted on these threads:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2033937
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2031329

A kind and thoughtful poster has corrected this,
and suggested that the javascript should be this:

javascript:location.reload(true);

Please also read this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9657491#9657491

And the suggested name to use is symbol ♻
(recycling symbol: selected from the Character Pallette),
or and arrangement of it.

Hope this helps!

Dr.MORO

The refresh button has moved to inside the URL entry area, just on the right hand side. It also doubles at the 'stop loading' button when a page is loading and also as the page load progress indicator.

Y do u not just hold ⌘ & press r? I've upgraded Safari to version 4.0 & this key combo still works as a refresh (reload page) shortcut. Keyboard shortcuts r almost always faster than mouse maneuvers.

Message was edited by: DarrellSY

my left hand is always on my mouse navigating my browser, not on my keyboard. plus it's beyond stupid that they've separated my most often-used item, refresh, all the way across the browser from back/forward/home, while at the same time not even giving me an option of putting a duplicate refresh button where I want it via the customize toolbar menu.

it's like sticking a car's gas pedal over in the passenger side footwell....useless and completely against practicality and years of association. but hey I guess they know what's best for me.

Can u use the Automator to create a shortcut? or just use your left thumb to hold the ⌘ and your index finger to press the r? I'm sure that after u try this a few times it will work much better for u than the button was working for u. There r also instant keyboard shortcuts for navigating forward & backward that save time. It's quicker for me to take my hand off of my mouse pad and hit the keyboard shortcut than to maneuver the mouse. Shortcuts r great. Have fun and be thankful that u'r not running Microsoft Windows.

Relying on keyboard shortcuts for web browsing is counter-intuitive. My mouse pointer typically stays within a 3" circle (back/forward/refresh/bookmarks) and my eyes stay on my screen. Having to look down and start hen-pecking shortcuts is not productive (especially multiple key shortcuts...*** is wrong with something like F5, Apple? oh right...that'd be too easy.)

Just wanted to throw my hat in the ring too. This is driving me CRAZY! (and yes, we're all familiar with keyboard shortcuts, thanks. That's not the issue here. The issue is that they took a useful button that everyone was accustomed to, then shrunk it and moved it away from the other buttons. With no option to customize.) I press the Stop or Reload buttons at least 500x more often than I hit the Home or Autofill buttons, but those are allowed to sit right there by forward and back. Why oh why can't I put my most-clicked button there too?

(csmith50, I was clicking around here earlier this week, looking for other people with stop/reload frustration, and last night I thought to myself "you know? it's like if Apple was building a car, and they decided to move one of the pedals..." I came to this thread to post that exact analogy, and look, you wrote my exact thoughts already!)

I'm hoping for a terminal solution to change that setting, which is how I dealt with the public beta. No such luck yet...

Everyone be sure you report this as a bug, Safari > Report Bugs to Apple

Yeah, that's what Apple do I'm afraid.

Nanny knows best...

I love OSX and have from the word go but it irritates me that features that should be available as toggled options - "cut" in the finder, cascading menus and options to retain the old style Safari tab bar and progress bar - are not there.

In KDE you can even have a middle button click which brings up a customisable contextual menu from which you can do just about anything. That's the kind of user options I'd like to see in OSX.

Hi All Refresh Button lovers, like me.

I've found this solution while surfing the web for an answer.

Copy and paste this:

javascript:location.reload();

Put it into your bookmark bar, any order your like.

Then, rename it obviously, like [ R ] or something.

Once you hit this while surfing, it will refresh/reload your viewing homepage!

I understand that 'Java' stuff might be the problem of hanging-Safari 4 issues.
But, for me, having this 'Refresh' button-ish in the Bookmark bar does help ease my frustration of No-'Reload'-button-option.

Should work in any other browser.

Enjoy!

Dr.MORO

You can also just hold down the command key & press the r. This "Reload Page" command is in the View menu. If version makes a difference, I am running 3.2.3.
DarrellSY

I've tried this several times in Version 4.0 (5530.17) and it isn't working.

HATE the refresh button all the way over there.

*steamed*

I will second the problem with the Reload button. It should be customizable.

Just acquired Safari 4.0 ten minutes ago. The refresh/stop button thing is incredibly annoying. Grr.

It is just not cool to take the refresh/stop buttons away. they've been on browsers for 15 years, no need for a change!!!!!!!!