Activity window

In Safari 6.

1. Click Preferences

2. Click Advanced Tab

3. Check the 'Show Develop menu in menu Tab' button located @ the bottom of the menu.

->You should now have a Develop menu button in the top menu between Bookmarks and Window

4. Click Develop menu button.

5. Click Show Page Resources

-> This will open a window pane along the bottom of the browser should look something like this:

6. You want to make sure that you have the the file icon selected top left hand corner of the grey bar

7. Any downloadable FLV will appear the folder called 'Other'

8. just click on the FLV file or any other file you want do download and it will downloand to your download directory.

-> if the flv doesn't load the first time, keep the developer window pane open and just reload the window, as the page loads all the resources will load one at a time into the developer window as a long list, once all the resources are loaded safari will then organise them into folders, most video content will be in the folder labeled 'Other', just double click what ever you want. For some video's this doesn't work because they have restrictions.

Also the Develop menu also allows you to turn on WebGL.

I hope this helps.

It's still possible to download videos without any additional plugins, you just have to do it a slightly different way, explained below;

(Actually this first step is optional, as the keyboard shortcut works whether the Develop menu is enabled or not)

First, make sure the "Show Develop menu in menu bar" checkbox is ticked from Safari, Preferences -> Advanced, it's at the bottom.

Secondly, go to the page where you want to download the file from.

Thirdly, either go to the Develop menu, and choose "Show Page Resources" or press the shortcut ⌥⌘A (A with Cmd and Alt held down) which is the same shortcut as the old Activity Window;

This will open the Page Resources inspector, which if you haven't seen it before can be quite confusing, but don't worry. What you're looking out for is a little finger pointing cursor icon in the top right hand side of the middle bar, that looks like this;

Click that and then click on the video you want. When you mouse over the video, or any other element of the page, it should turn blue. Clicking this shoud take you to the link to the video in the page source code as shown in the Inspector at the bottom. Mouse over that, so it underlines in blue and right click on that link and choose "Edit Attribute" what you're after should be highlighted.

Copy that to your clipboard with ⌘C.

Click on your downloads icon in the top right hand side of Safari, and press ⌘V. There's no indication that you can do that, but you can. Your download should begin.

Viola! Job done with no plugins.

This seems to be a pretty popular gripe with Safari but all that's how to do it.

Hope that helps

I was missing Activity too but it is not completely gone although it´s a bit different.

Hitting alt-cmd-i opens the developer window.

You got to choose "Show Developer in the menu" in Safari/Preferences.

You get a window with three columns. In the left column you have some hirarchy. One of which is called Others. Here on my german system it is Anderes. This one contains movies currently played. Similar to Activity.

If you found the proper line click on it. In the right column, under Location you will find the complete Url which you can copy, similar to Activity.

i use and like many of the safari extensions for flv/youtube/html5 etc but a more general solution for the missing activity monitor list is provided by hetima with SafariStand https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4153861?answerId=20651191022#20651191022

I was able to revert to 5.1.7 from Safari 6. See #6 for caveat... not sure if this was just an issue with my machine.

1. Go to /System/Library/StagedFrameworks
2. Delete the "Safari" folder
3. Google "Safari5.1.7LionManual.pkg" and download pkg
4. Go to Applications folder. Give read & write permissions to Safari.app, then delete.
5. Open "Safari5.1.7LionManual.pkg" and run installer
6. After the installation was finished, it didn't actually place Safari in the Applications folder, but I had a backup copy in my Time Machine archive. I restored version 5.1.7 to Applications from my backup.
7. Launch Safari, and it should be like nothing changed.

Removing the Activity window means LESS functionality for users. What is the point? What does Apple gain in omitting this feature?

Seems that Steve Jobs is gone not only in body but also in spirit.

PLEASE, Apple, return the Activity Window to Safari.

Yep...

And the shift+Enter key to add the .com in the address bar is also gone, now it open the query in a new window... That's what cmd+Enter would do if my memory is correct....

I'm kind of happy with Lion, but Safari 6 is more of a downgrade than an upgrade in my opinion.....

At a minimum Apple should describe whats been added or deleted from a new vesrsion so the user can decide if he wants to download the "upgrade". If I would have know I had to give one or more of the tools or functions I like to use II wouldn't have done it.

More Information Apple!!

Also, it seems like they also removed the option that allowed us to send a feedback.

As far as I can remember, through the top menu, we could post a feedback on any of the Apple apps. This is no longer there for Safari (but still there for iTunes for instance...)

If that's the direction they are taking....

Lion Safari 6.0 update...

This was a shocker....

Not only is the Activity Window good for downloading videos from sites, but it also comes in handy when your browser stalls, you can open the AW and see if some web request is going haywire. It also illustrates how much tracking goes on behind the scenes on those innocent looking webpages - a bit shocking...

This was a great feature that for me, made Safari stand out over Chrome or Foxfire.

Unfortunately, the Activity Window is such an important feature to me, that tonight I will have to restore my harddrive with Time Machine to a state before the upgrade. There I will have to sit until either the Activity Window returns or I find a plug-in or something that will easily replicate it's function. (Any suggestions?)

Does Apple ever do user groups for feedback on such changes, or does a programmer sit in an cubical somewhere thinking "if I don't use it, you don't need it"...

I'm currently still running Lion and haven't upgraded to Mountain Lion, I wonder if Safari 6 was designed to work with Mountain and those new functions wont work with an older version of Safari?

Just thinking outloud............

Well. As I understand, the issue is downloading flash video.

1. You make any bookmark on the Bookmarks bar

2. You replace address with

javascript:%20window.open('http://en.savefrom.net/#url='%20+%20escape(location.href));

(right click on your bookmark, then "Edit Address")

3. Rename Bookmark for example "Download video"

rd2110

I tried the DL button, it took me to Safari 6.0, so it's dead.

I did however, restore from Time Machine and have my Safari 5.1.7 back - Yeah!

For all the other suggestions that people gave, thank you.

Nothing seemed to work for me, most gave me errors of no videos found on website even though I was watching it, and although I found the Show Page Resources, the best I could do is get it to open another window, but I could not get a download option on anything.

I did take jhfcdxf's advice and submit a formal request to apple.

Thanks again all for your help!

I could'nt agree more either, but either way you would still have to upgrade if you wanted mountain lion, so either way there is no activity window. I wonder if anyone knows of a way to download through the web inspector, something is better than nothing.....:( Not to happy about this....

I Can't beleive they got rid of the Activity Window. To be honest that was the only reason I used Safari over Gooogle chrome. This was a huge mistake on Apples Part. I realize its not the only way to download Flash videos but it was by far the easiest way. Why would they make this more time consuming than it needs to be.

BRING BACK THE ACTIVITY WINDOW!