Jeff Malterre

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Enabling the Developer menu in Safari 4 (for Vista and Windows 7)

Had a little bit of a run-around trying to do this because some information I found was for another version so I thought I’d post a quick ‘how-to’ up here. We’re going to be editing the preferences file for Safari. This file has a .plist extension and to edit it you’ll need to get this. After you finish downloading and installing it, launch it. Now go to File -> Open, and browse to this location: \Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\Preferences\, the file we need to edit is com.apple.Safari.plist so go ahead and open it.

Append these lines before the final </dict> and </plist> elements:

<key>IncludeDebugMenu</key>
<true/>

Restart Safari, you’ll now notice the ‘Develop’ menu option next to ‘Bookmarks’ and ‘Window’.

Enjoy.

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