If you ever wished to get the good, old reload button back in Safari 4, here’s a great tutorial from elasticthreads (you can reach him on Tumblr or Twitter) to acheive this.
I tried it and it works perfectly.
Enjoy!
Download the files here.
1. Go to your Applications Folder and find Safari. Right-click, or control-click, on it to get a contextual menu. Choose “Show Package Contents”
2. In the Safari.App folder that just opened, go to Contents/Resources.
3. Copy ToolbarReloadButton.png and ReloadPressed.png into this folder.
4. In the Contents/Resources folder, go to the Language-of-your-choice.lproj folder. for English speakers that’s the English.lproj folder.
5. Find “ToolbarItems.nib” and copy this somewhere as a backup.
6. Copy the “ToolbarItems.nib” that you downloaded with this tweak into the .lproj folder, replacing the original.
7. Restart Safari. Then right click on the Toolbar and choose customize toolbar and drag your new stop/reload button onto your toolbar.
8. Reload reload reload the next time Steve Jobs has one more thing…
–Disclaimer: it’s not quite the old stop/reload button, not visually. The old one changed its icon from a reload icon to an “x” (for stop) when a page was loading. This button still acts the exact same. Clicking it while a page is loading will still stop it from loading. But it doesn’t change its icon. It’s always the reload arrow… Sorry.
