Where did the Activity window go in Safari?

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Where did the Activity window go in Safari?

Updated to Mountain Lion and now the activity window in Safari has disappeared. I use that a lot so am really hoping it still is accessible. When I search activity window in Safari help, I get this:

You can monitor and examine each element of a webpage loaded by Safari. This is useful if you want to view the structure of a webpage.

Open the website using Safari, and then choose Develop > Show Web Inspector.If the Develop menu isn’t in the menu bar, open Safari preferences, click Advanced, and then select “Show Develop menu in menu bar.”

To view webpage resources in the Web Inspector’s sidebar, choose Develop > Show Page Resources.

But there is no menu labeled "Develop" and nothing called "Web Inspector". So what's up with this?????

Posted on Aug 2, 2012 4:40 PM

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Linc Davis

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Aug 2, 2012 5:45 PM in response to Dan Bryant1

Safari > Preferences > Advanced > Show Develop menu in menu bar

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Yodrak

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Aug 4, 2012 10:42 AM in response to Dan Bryant1

Dan,

Read that Help article again, more carefully this time. It contains the following sentence:
"If the Develop menu isn’t in the menu bar, open Safari preferences, click Advanced, and then select “Show Develop menu in menu bar."

Yodrak

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er3L

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Dec 23, 2012 6:48 AM in response to Dan Bryant1

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

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siys

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Dec 23, 2012 8:44 AM in response to Dan Bryant1

If you still have Lion you can download the Safari 5.0.5 app here: http://siys.blogspot.com/2012/08/safari-505_16.html

No installation required. Follow the instructions.

This does not work for Mountain Lion.

If you have Mountain Lion and truly wish to be able to still use Safari 5 you would need to create a small partition and install Lion. You'd then need to log out of Mountain Lion and login to Lion each time you wish to use Safari 5, which is not all that practical, but it will work.

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Dan Bryant1 Author

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Aug 3, 2012 1:19 PM in response to Linc Davis

Thanks! So now the question is, why does Help assume that I have the Develop menu activated? Shouldn't have been that hard to find the activity window.

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Dan Bryant1 Author

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Aug 6, 2012 9:05 AM in response to Yodrak

Well that's embarassing! 🙂

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