18/12/03
2Extending Safari
Just wanted to share with you my favourite apps for extending the capabilities of Safari – There might be one here you haven’t tried…
Safari Enhancer – Does a whole variety of tasks, but I use it to enable the debug menu (contains a spoof user agents menu), remove the metal skin (looks great in Panther!) and deactivate the cache.
Sogudi – creates search shortcuts to use in the location bar. For instance, to search for ‘skEdit’ on Versiontracker, just type ‘vt skEdit’ into the location bar. Comes with some preset searches, and the ability to add your own.
Pith Helmet – Blocks adverts, particularly annoying animated gif banner ads. Just makes life so much nicer. You can specify sites to always block or never block content from.
Safari No-Timeout – get longer than 60 seconds before Safari times out.
What’s more, these apps are all free. There are some nice people out there.
Incidentally, the new OS X 10.3.2 update, seems to include enhancements Safari or the WebCore, as I’ve just noticed that title attributes now show up as tooltips, as promised by Dave Hyatt. This doesn’t seem to be mentioned in Apple’s release notes. Presumably, this means that the other niceties on his list are now installed too.
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ste said 1760 days ago:
Nice enhancements - thanks for sharing! Still, I wish that the customizability were at the level of Mozilla or Firebird (particularly the Javascript functions and cookie functions). I do like how well Safari runs, though, and will be certain to check out these add-ons. :DCarla said 1760 days ago:
Thanks for the links, these are great. I'm already using your buttons. I agree with Ste though, if I just had more tab control, I'd be in browser heaven.