[X4U] Safari Bookmarks Bar Items (was: OS 10.3.9)

[Eddie Hargreaves]

"The default bookmarks reappearing after being removed won't happen going
forward now that the way this is handled has been changed."
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2005_04.html#007980


On 4/19/05 4:56 PM, John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:

> On 04/19/05, Jim Freeman <jpfreeman at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm not sure about "whenever you apply an OS X update". I've applied
>> many an update and this is the first times I've seen the extra bookmarks.
>> 
>> On 16-Apr-05, at 10:53 PM, John Baltutis wrote:
>>> On 04/16/05, Jim Freeman <jpfreeman at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> Now I have a bunch of new favorites in my Safari bookmarks bar: Apple,
>>>> Amazon, .Mac, Yahoo
>>>> 
>>>> Where did that come from?
>>> 
>>> Standard default set whenever you apply an OS X update. Open
>>> bookmarks->Bookmarks Bar and select + DELETE, and they're gone.
> 
> While beta-testing 10.3.9 and Safari 1.3, I reported this behavior, and
> engineering responded: "Safari will add any default bookmarks that were
> added since the last version of Safari you used. New users get the entire
> set of default bookmarks. If you don't like the new bookmarks you can
> remove them. There's no way for us to tell which users do and don't want
> these bookmarks, and the UI for letting Safari know is deleting them in the
> normal way you'd delete any other bookmark." That includes any defaults
> associated with the Bookmarks Bar.