I went and installed the beta version of Safari 3 after the WWDC keynote recently. Much to my surprise it installed itself over the top of Safari 2 and required a reboot. Safari 3 itself seems more like Safari 2.1, there’s not much in there to justify a whole new version and I uninstalled it pretty quickly.
Fortunately the uninstaller does a resasonable job, there’s a site that shows you how to run them both on the one machine. But what I noticed is that even after uninstalling, my dock was still broken. I use a program called Transparent Dock that makes the dock ‘float’ by removing all the background and outlines. But this didn’t work after installing the beta. This is because the beta installs version 10.4.10 of the dock and this isn’t removed by the uninstaller. I had to copy the old dock application off my backup to get my dock back.
I have no idea what other stuff the beta installs, but this may mean that Tiger 10.4.10 is definitely on its way and will be the first OS X build 10 for a while.
Thanks for your article…I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why Transparent Dock stopped working. I have a question though…how did you replace your old dock app with the new one? Everytime I try to copy it over I get “the operation cannot be completed because the item “Dock” is in use. HELP!
Head into activity monitor and kill the dock application from there. Then you can drag over the old dock app if you have a copy of it. I think you need to enter your adiminstrator password.
I have seen any I’ll effects from replacing the updated dock. Looks really ugly without transparent dock. I’m so used to it without any background or anything.
[...] 24 06 2007 Quick postscript to the Safari 3 beta [...]
Was there a Safari 2.1? I’ve been working on a site with a JS drop down and in 3.0 the java has a lot of bugs…but I’ve heard about a Safari 2.1 out there and can’t find it…is that just a name for 3.0?
Yeah, I dropped Safari 3 very quickly. Haven’t heard about 2.1 but that’s not saying much.
mm… bookmarked