Restore previous Safari version from .SafariArchive.tar.gz

Restore previous Safari version from .SafariArchive.tar.gz

Did that new Safari update (5.1) break something and you'd like the old version back? Thanks to Apple's prescient yet secretive engineers, there's a way.


When Safari does an upgrade it saves the previous version in this location:

/Library/Application Support/Apple/.SafariArchive.tar.gz

To restore Safari, have tar to expand the archive to the root folder:

 sudo tar -xvf /Library/Application\ Support/Apple/.SafariArchive.tar.gz -C / 

To be complete, delete the receipt from /var/db/receipts, in this case it is the one for Safari 5.1: ...

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