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Re: 10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing

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Post by e1ven » Thu, Jun 10, 2010, 10:09 PM UTC

marknutter wrote: post #7

Are Safari extensions starting to increase dramatically in number now? If so is it because of Safari 5?

Safari 5 includes support for Chrome/Jetpack style HTML + JS Extensions, whereas before Safari didn't include extension support directly.

Some tools, like 1Password did load "extensions" in Safari, but they did with hacks like SIMBL, which Apple discouraged use of.

Re: 10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing

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Post by stu » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 1:08 PM UTC

pietrofmaggi wrote: post #2

Sadly 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)

Despite every release of Safari reducing the feature set of SafariTabs (which is good), I've had a load of requests for an updated version. It should be available within the next couple of days:

http://stuconnolly.com/blog/safaritabs-and-safari-5/

Re: 10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing

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Post by logic » Sat, Jun 12, 2010, 7:51 PM UTC

cabacon wrote: post #8

There'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 b…

http://safariadblock.com/

He packaged it up when he got back from WWDC.