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Porn Mode (or How to Hack your Safari Menus)

by C.K. Sample, III May 2nd 2005 at 10:00PM

Our readers are always good. Sometimes, they are friggin' great! Earlier, I made a crack about Safari's new Private Browsing feature being equivalent to a special "Porn Mode." One especially gifted reader made my joke a reality:
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Thanks, Josh! Read on after the jump to find out how Josh did it so that you can make your own Porn Mode.

The requirements:  Tiger and Developers Tools (also known as Xcode on the Tiger DVD; you'll have to install this separately) installed.  I also recommend that you make a backup copy of Safari before you begin.

Here's the steps as emailed to me by Josh:
  1. Right-click on Safari(.app) and click on "Show Package Contents"
  2. Follow the trail to Contents > Resources > English.Iproj > MainMenu.nib
  3. Double-click MainMenu.nib to open Interface Builder.
  4. Click on the "Safari" test menu that pops up, and double-click on "Privacy Browsing".
  5. Replace it with "Porn Mode" :)
  6. File > Save.. and restart Safari.
You're done.  Enjoy your new hacked copy of Safari, featuring Porn Mode.


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Miss_X

I've just come across this post and didn't get my mac that long ago. It has OS X 10.4.3 but I can't seem to do this!! Ive right clicked on Safari on the desktop and it doesn't give "show package contents" option - can someone help me, pretty purlease. :-)

November 03 2005 at 3:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sr

Extra Porn Mode: Use Safari Enhancer 'disable caching' don't forget to erase/disable your quicktime caching as well ;)

June 18 2005 at 5:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brent

Its just not complete until you edit the dialog box as well. While you're in there changing the menu, open up the Localizable.strings file and change the rest. Its a plain text file, so you can use your favorite text editor on it. Search for the following to change the dialog box title: /* title for Private Browsing confirmation alert */ Change the value on the RIGHT side of the equal sign. It will be in the form of original string = new string. Search for the following to change the dialog box message: /* message for Browse Privately confirmation alert */ Same deal as the title. This one is a really long string on one line. You'll be scrolling for awhile to find that equal sign.

May 17 2005 at 1:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
plosiguant

I think I need to start working on a new FireFox plugin (or get an iMac, but I think the plugin is cheaper) :)

May 11 2005 at 9:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jenna Jameson

so do i

May 06 2005 at 1:58 AM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
Bill Gates

hahaha apple and mac suck they can eat me

May 05 2005 at 4:00 PM Report abuse -4 rate up rate down Reply
Josh

Kyle, There are a bunch of features in the updated Safari for Panther that you can't see in Panther, only in Tiger. You can change them, but you can't use them :)

May 03 2005 at 7:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kyle

I haven't updated to Tiger yet, Tomorrow!!!, yay!, but i still looked into my safari and it has that option in the Interface Builder. Why can't I see it though?

May 03 2005 at 2:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
AltOpt

If only activating Porn mode, would also broadcast the Safaris current URL on ones iChat status.

May 03 2005 at 1:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kyle

I haven't updated to Tiger yet, Tomorrow!!!, yay!, but i still looked into my safari and it has that option in the Interface Builder. Why can't I see it though?

May 03 2005 at 12:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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