Configuring Safari 5.1.5

How can I configure the browser please to remove what in IE would be 'Show only friendly HTTP messages'?

I'm not familiar with that particular IE setting. Could you please post a screenshot of the setting you mean?

Paste the screenshot into an image file (using a program like Paint), and save the file.

Start a reply here and click the wee camera icon at the top of the reply window. Click "Choose file", browse to the image file, select the file and click "Open". Now click "Insert file" to insert the screenshot into the reply.

🙂 Many thanks.

I've checked through the Safari preferences. I don't believe Safari has that particular preference built in.

Not all of the settings in Internet Options are specific to IE. (A number of them are Windows system settings, and also apply to Safari and/or iTunes.) So, if "Show friendly HTTP error messages" is one of the Windows system settings, you may have already disabled it for Safari.

Unchecking the "Show friendly HTTP error messages" is useful because if it is checked and you come across a web page that displays 'IE is unable to display the contect, etc', instead, if it is unchecked it will show you a line of code from the server to tell you what the coding error is, so it is useful if you are developing web pages.

There's a couple of things thart might be useful for that in Safari. For a broad idea of the issue, you could try using the Activity monitor:

(It helps to have your Source Bar running ... if there's an error on the page or Safari can't load an element on the page, you'll get an alert in the Source Bar saying to check Activity.)

For more fine-grained analysis of the trouble, try using your Develop menu. First, in your Safari advanced preferences, select "Show develop menu in menu bar":

Now you'll have access to the Error console, Web Inspector, Javascript debugging, etc:

🙂 You're welcome.

The Develop menu looks useful for trying Web sites via different browsers.

Yeah ... I'm not a developer myself, but I find that very useful too. I've had "Open Page With" running successfully for Chrome, IE and Firefox on an XP system, and IE and Firefox currently on a Windows 7 system. (I haven't used it with Opera, though ... but given that Safari can run Opera User agents, I'd guess that Open Page With would work well with Opera .)