Enabling debugging for Safari

[foxfirefey]

If you do web development, this might be useful to know about Safari. You can open up the terminal and use these commands to enable some of the built in debugging tools:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1 
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true

I don't know much about what the debug menu does, but the developer extras is quite useful. You'll need to restart the browser before it works. Right click on the screen, and then select "Inspect Element" to see the interface.

Comments

[pakratz]

I think it's a shame that these features are disabled by default - that's exactly why I use Firefox and Opera, even though I hardly ever do webdesign.
I really like the 'inspect element' option, thank you for the info!

[kareila]

A simpler way to enable this is to look under Advanced Preferences and check "Show Develop menu in menu bar." I think this turns on the Inspect Element functionality as well.