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
by skymt on Thursday June 10, 2010 @03:54PM
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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
by stu on Friday June 11, 2010 @09:08AM
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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:
Re:10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing
by roryokane on Thursday June 10, 2010 @06:06PM
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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.
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?
He packaged it up when he got back from WWDC.
http://blog.libinpan.com/SafariExtensions/HackerNews/HackerN...
http://j.mp/hn4safari
Hope you will like it. Thanks!
Any idea on how a similar feature can be made available on Safari 5 (which I love for his "reader" feature).
(edited for grammar)
http://stuconnolly.com/blog/safaritabs-and-safari-5/
Some tools, like 1Password did load "extensions" in Safari, but they did with hacks like SIMBL, which Apple discouraged use of.
Cool extensions btw, love the gmail checker.