Comments on: What are the best Safari plugins?

Question: What are the best Safari plugins?

jroybal — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:26:21 -0800

What are the best Safari plugins?

I recently bought my first Mac, a MacBook, and now I've switched to Safari. What are some Safari plugins that I should be using? Preferably free. Mac OS X Tiger, 10.4.10, Safari 3.0.2 Beta. I've seen some related threads on here, but they're kind of old, and there's no mention of Safari 3 Beta.

Two things specifically, but really anything that would be useful.
1. Something that would give me more control over tab behavior
2. An ad-blocker

Thanks very much.

By: dance

dance — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:29:19 -0800

Saft.

Also the website that hosts the Saft description is called 'Pimp my Safari'. It should be able to point you in the direction of more of the same.

By: anonetal

anonetal — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:39:21 -0800

Not exactly a plugin, but Inquisitor (for searching) is an awesome addition to Safari (unfortunately no support for Camino that I would rather use).

By: Captain_Science

Captain_Science — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:45:27 -0800

I've been using PithHelmet for some time now and love it. 10$ shareware but from what I remember no restrictions on the un-regestered version.

By: majick

majick — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:01:29 -0800

I've had reliability problems with PithHelmet for long enough that I finally gave it up. Lots of things seem to make it crash the browser, and according to the guy who makes the thing there isn't much he can do to make it less crashy. Privoxy is now my ad blocker of choice since it works with all browsers and never crashes.

By: chillmost

chillmost — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:04:04 -0800

I use SafariBlock to block ads, but unfortunately, it seems to be having problems in Safari 3.0.x. There may be an update soon though. Keep it in mind for the future.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:08:45 -0800

Saft.

By: qwip

qwip — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:46:30 -0800

I've had good luck using Saft and this CSS file to block ads on Safari 3.0, and I would assume it would work the same on 2.0. I was using PithHelmet, but it is not compatible with Safari 3.

Oh, and Inquisitor rocks.

By: junesix

junesix — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:41:25 -0800

Have you tried Camino browser? It has many of the features you expect from Firefox if you came from Windows (except for the add-ons).

I like Sogudi for Safarai. It allows keyword searches in the address bar. Unfortunately, it and PithHelmet don't work yet with Safari 3 beta which is why I haven't made the upgrade.

By: dmd

dmd — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:47:20 -0800

Any of you Safari wizards know of a good place to learn how to write a Safari plugin? The only thing keeping me tied to Firefox is the PasswordMaker plugin...

By: phaedon

phaedon — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:26:04 -0800

I'm really confused by the Saft website. How the hell do i download it?

By: nowonmai

nowonmai — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:41:53 -0800

Sogudi is one of those things that is so excellent that any browser I use that lacks it seems broke,

By: krautland

krautland — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:51:34 -0800

second pith helmet.

By: qwip

qwip — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:25:26 -0800

I'm really confused by the Saft website. How the hell do i download it?

Go here and pick the one you want for version 3 beta, or the normal version for Safari 2. Saft downloads are in two flavours: Demo and purchased. It's worth the purchase.

By: misha

misha — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:35:43 -0800

Any reason you switched to Safari instead of Camino or Firefox? I ask because my experience with my 10.4.10 Macbook gave me problems with some graphics files coming up properly in Safari. I also found that my web pages more closely mirrored what Windows IE users would see when I chose Firefox as my browser.

If you do decide to stick with Safari, though, Safaristand is another add-on to try.

By: 6550

6550 — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:34:49 -0800

If you're used to Firefox and like it stick with Firefox on Mac. I tried Safari, pretty extensively, and Camino, but the lack of the plug-ins that I wanted and the tab management sent me back to Firefox. I realize it's slower browser, at least theoretically, but it's still the best browser for me by far. I think anyone used to the extensive customization available with Firefox is going to find the other choices on Mac sub-par.