How to add refresh and stop buttons to toolbar

Escape key equals stop.
Command-r "reloads" the page.
Why do you need buttons?

AFAIK Currently no way to customize the toolbar with stop/reload button. I suggest you select "Safari->Report bug to apple" and ask that they add these two options to "customize toolbar" back. It's driving me nuts too.

As to the question "why do you need buttons" from the other poster - this is why, for me at least:
If you put BACK/FORWARD/STOP/RELOAD all within a few pixels of each other, you can navigate a history, with a mouse with barely a movement of your hand. This makes it much easier one where you're debugging a form or some sort of randomizer on a web page.

It also makes no sense to break the navigation controls to either side of the toolbar. (What would have made a little more sense would be to allow us to move BACK/FORWARD over to the right, beside the new, STOP/RELOAD location but that's not possible now either.

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Graeme Rae wrote:

As to the question "why do you need buttons" from the other poster - this is why, for me at least:
If you put BACK/FORWARD/STOP/RELOAD all within a few pixels of each other, you can navigate a history, with a mouse with barely a movement of your hand. This makes it much easier one where you're debugging a form or some sort of randomizer on a web page.

My sentiments entirely. Working as you suggest means I can put my elbow on the desk and use my other hand to support my chin, most restful.

How to get it back:

Download install SIMBL

http://culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php

Download reload button bundle

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/canberland/

Drop the bundle in Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins

Restart Safari and customize your toolbar.

Add me to the list of people for adding a Refresh button to the choices under the "Customize Toolbar..." menu item. I want it next to my Forward and Back buttons. How do we get the word to Apple -- or is this the way on this board??

Hi all,

Just trying to link most of the 'Reload/Refresh' button topics together.

*How to add refresh and stop buttons to toolbar*
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2050820

*Add a 'reload page' bookmark in Safari 4*
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2033937

*Reload button and progress bar*
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2031329

Dr.MORO

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Use Safari>Report bugs to Apple... and cross your fingers. The forums are NOT a way to get Apple's attention - My experience with AppleCare is that, even with scores and scores of posts concerning an issue, they inevitably claim ignorance of said issue.

Thank you, Graeme Rae! I now have my Reload Button back on the left side of my URL window. No more re-training my ingrained habits!

Works great!

Here is an easy way to add a reload button, go to this website and drag one of the several icons to your Favorites bar just below where you want the reload button, and it's done.
Drag & Drop baby.

http://thequantumbyte.com/2009/06/tip-add-reload-button-to-safari-4-bookmarks-ba r/

Graeme Rae:

Thanks for posting the link to the SIMBL plug-in to restore the RELOAD/STOP button to its proper place. The plug-in works fine under Leopard, not so fine under Snow Leopard, for everyone's information. It does add the button in the "Customize" dialogue, and one can drag it from there to the toolbar, but for some odd reason, Safari doesn't remember the button in the toolbar config on relaunch, at least not consistently. Sometimes it's there, sometimes not. No obvious way for English-speaking users to contact the plug-in developer. Guess we'll need to wait till it's updated on the d.hatena_ne.jp/canberland site or Apple comes to its senses on this one and at least gives back the option to users who don't want to mouse across the screen to reload a page.

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Further info: Reinstalling Snow Leopard from the disk (10.6 replacing 10.6.2) reverted Safari from 4.0.4 to 4.0.3. The plug-in appears to be stable under this just earlier version.

Spoke too soon.