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What are the best Safari plugins?

  • 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.

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    Not exactly a plugin, but http://www.inquisitorx.com/ (for searching) is an awesome addition to Safari (unfortunately no support for Camino that I would rather use).

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http://pimpmysafari.com/plugins/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.

dance

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

Captain_Science

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. http://www.etresoft.org/privoxy.html is now my ad blocker of choice since it works with all browsers and never crashes.

majick

I use http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19202 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.

chillmost

Saft.

dobbs

I've had good luck using Saft and http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2003/03/08/adblocking/ 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.

qwip

Have you tried http://www.caminobrowser.org/ browser? It has many of the features you expect from Firefox if you came from Windows (except for the add-ons). I like http://www.kitzkikz.com/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.

junesix

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...

dmd

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

phaedon

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