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  1. Improve the appearance of Safari Reader
  2. Open Safari Extension
  3. Update to latest Chromium build

Improve the appearance of Safari Reader

Last updated: 2011-08-24
Level: Intermediate
OS:
  • OS X
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If you don't like Apple's style for the Safari Reader feature, you can edit the stylesheet in Reader.html. In Safari 5.0, the file is at:

/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/Reader.html
In Safari 5.1 the file is at:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Safari.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Reader.html

Detailed instructions are available for making the changes in Safari 5.0 and for Safari 5.1.

Open Safari Extension

Last updated: 2011-01-22
Level: Intermediate
OS:
  • Windows
  • OS X
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Programs:

Safari Extensions are contained in eXtensible ARchiver files, so the contents can be extracted using:

xar -xf extension_name.safariextz

Update to latest Chromium build

Last updated: 2011-12-13
Level: Intermediate
OS:
  • OS X
Programs:

To update to the latest build of Chromium, use this bash script.

#!/bin/bash
tempfoo=`basename $0`
TMPDIR=`mktemp -q -d /tmp/${tempfoo}.XXXXXX`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
	   echo "$0: Can't create temp file, exiting..."
	   exit 1
fi
LATEST=`curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-continuous/Mac/LAST_CHANGE`
curl -L http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-continuous/Mac/$LATEST/chrome-mac.zip -o $TMPDIR/chrome-mac.zip
unzip -qq -d $TMPDIR $TMPDIR/chrome-mac.zip
cp -R $TMPDIR/chrome-mac/Chromium.app /Applications
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