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Just had to do this and thought I’d post it for anyone who might find it helpful. Here is how you enable the Debug menu if you’re running windows:

1. Navigate to the folder below (replace USERNAME with your user account).
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari

2. open up Preferences.plist and add the following two lines anywhere before the line “</dict>”

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

3. Restart Safari and you should now have a Debug menu.

I stumbled across this news alert on Yahoo! News today that describes Mozilla’s mobile browser efforts with Firefox. This is very encouraging news for web developers. The current lot of browsers that work on handhelds are not that exciting (Opera and Safari on the iPhone respectfully excluded from the list – those two work great). Better and more compliant browsers for handhelds = a better Internet experience for all.

With Intervals we have developing a handheld version on our development roadmap, but we are longing for better browsers that allow the functionality to work as intended without having to make a separate user experience for handhelds.

I am currently writing this post on Safari on XP. The first thing I did was to check the navigator.userAgent js property.

I don’t know about everyone else out there, but seeing “Windows NT” and “Safari” in a userAgent property is something that I didn’t expect. It gives me both the creeps as well as a little excitement on what’s to come. Excitement would be more users submitting bugs to apple on this browsers crappy editable html javascript implementation, maybe this will get AppleWebKit to fix the bugs faster. What gives me the creeps is it gives me another platform our websites should run under… bittter sweet.

You can download the public beta here.

Update: It seems like most of the showstopper bugs are fixed with this version. With just a little push this very might well be a very good release.

UPDATE II: So I can’t maximize Safari on my RIGHT MONITOR… it just dissapears. Is that Apple trying to send a political subliminal message? ;)