Pimp My Safari: SafariStand Themes

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SafariStand Themes

Jan 31, 01:30 am

I only discovered these options the other day. Via SafariStand’s Setting panel, you can apply a variety of themes. Originally, this was just to remove the metal texture from Safari Windows, but at some point the list grew to give you all these options:

Light

Medium

Dark

Unified

Unified Light

Unified Medium

I’m currently using the last one, Unified Medium – I love it!

Posted by Jon Hicks

At last, a reason to use SafariStand! I like the thumbnail tab sidebar, but am confused as to why the standard tab bar is retained—a little redundant (not to mention, space-wasting). The stand bar RSS still cannot handle my del.icio.us feed, for some reason.

#1 Christopher 31/01/2006

There is a hack to remove the standard tab bar so that only the thumbnails are left. I use it on my Safari and it works great. I’m also getting ready to see if I can remove the Google search field. It’s redundant with SafariStand also.

#2 Phill Kenoyer 31/01/2006

I’m not catching the difference between the standard and “Unified” themes.

#3 Stephen 31/01/2006

Yep, Unified Medium is the main reason I use Stand. :)

Stephen, the difference in the Unified themes is in the tab bar…

#4 Jeff Croft 01/02/2006

John, what do you think about Smoothstripes 5.1.1, from Maxthemes.com? It offers a new theme to Safari, inspired by iTunes 6. I think it is ok, but it does not work very well in the installable version: the bookmarks view appears to have a repeated horizontal pattern. Even though, I think the theme is the best attempt to give consistency to the already inconsistent Tiger GUI.