10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing
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10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing
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Re: 10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing
#2Sadly Safari 5 inhibits SafariTabs which is a SIMBL based plugin (http://stuconnolly.com/projects/safaritabs/).
Any idea on how a similar feature can be made available on Safari 5 (which I love for his "reader" feature).
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Re: 10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing
#3Sadly Safari 5 inhibits SafariTabs which is a SIMBL based plugin ( http://stuconnolly.com/projects/safaritabs/ ). Any idea on how a similar feature can be made available on Safari 5 (which I love for his "reader" feature). (edited for grammar)
It doesn't look possible right now. I've looked through the extension docs (http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/Tool...), and the overall architecture is very similar to Chrome's. Safari extensions are essentially user scripts with a limited API for access to the UI and user data; if Apple doesn't provide an API hook for a given UI feature, the extension can't touch it. SafariTabs would be possible to implement if Safari fired events when tabs and windows are closed, but it currently doesn't.
Re: 10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing
#4Can i use extensions in webkit nightly or just safari 5?
Cool extensions btw, love the gmail checker.
Re: 10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing
#5Can i use extensions in webkit nightly or just safari 5? Cool extensions btw, love the gmail checker.
I've just checked with WebKit nightly, GMail checker works fine on it. However I am not sure if it will work if you don't have Safari 5 installed.
Re: 10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing
#6Can i use extensions in webkit nightly or just safari 5? Cool extensions btw, love the gmail checker.
WebKit Nightly is only a wrapper to make Safari use newer build of WebKit, you still need Safari 5 installed for extensions.
Re: 10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing
#7Are Safari extensions starting to increase dramatically in number now? If so is it because of Safari 5?
Re: 10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing
#8There's the chrome adblock extension that is safari-enabled now too: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepj...
It doesn't look like there's a binary you can just install yet, but if you grab a (free) Safari Extension Developer certificate from http://developer.apple.com/safari/ you can build/install it yourself. It seems nicer than the old SIMBL adblock stuff, and will presumably be kept fresh because it's used by Chrome users too.
I'm still looking for a "keyword in location bar -> expand an URL" extension. E.g., typing "wiki foobar" in the location bar expands it to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/foobar automatically. Is there one of those for Safari 5 yet?
Re: 10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing
#9I've just ported OnePage from Chrome to Safari, give it a try here:
http://blog.libinpan.com/SafariExtensions/HackerNews/HackerN...
Hope you will like it. Thanks!
Re: 10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing
#10Are Safari extensions starting to increase dramatically in number now? If so is it because of Safari 5?
Safari 5 actually introduced support for extensions. They were not possible before. What was possible before were plug-ins, but they were and are unsupported by Apple, and required coding in Objective-C instead of HTML and JavaScript, which more people know.