Apple Preparing to Launch 'Safari Extensions Gallery'

[3583582]

Quit being pedantic. Nobody calls those things used to cover wounds "Nexcare brand adhesive medical strips", Bandaids is good enough. It's an equivalent, spread a better name for it and maybe we will use it.

There is no AwesomeBar or equivalent in Safari. For example, try to write "super mumbo bambo bear" in the adressfield and press enter. Will it use the search engine to search for it? No. Safari still use a separate search bar and adressfield. Merge them and you have the beginning of an awesomebar.

 

[One Man Army]

Where is the bookmark alphabetization extension?

I know this isn't exactly what you're looking for but it's a handy trick you might like.

Click the 'show all bookmarks' button in the bookmarks bar
Drag all the bookmarks and folders out of the bar on the left onto your desktop
Now drag them all back in from your desktop
They should all now be in alphabetical order

 

[adztaylor]

I wish Safari had an AwesomeBar.

 

[kntgsp]

AdBlock Please. Or should I say iAdBlock.

Glimmer Blocker works fine for me.

 

[macduke]

For whatever reason, my Safari 5 install is garbage and runs super slow, especially when it comes to retrieving a site. Using the built in google search bar usually always results in the connection timing out. I can switch over to Firefox and be fine. Weird. Guess I should try to reinstall?

 

[Vmaatta]

Something tells me your really really wrong. If I was Apple I'd build an Ad blocker straight into the browser, the less people that see google ads the better, and since iAds is only in Apps it doesn't effect Apple one bit.

I agree with you in that there’s no reason for Apple to not allow ad blockers. But doing good business [Apple way] is not about hurting the competition. Apple has no need to start trying to back-stab Google .

 

[macswitcha2]

Is there going to be an extension that fixes the iPhone 4 issues?

 

[JGowan]

Sounds positive in light of some of Apple's troubles this past week.

 

[sphilipp]

Safariextensions.org

Good. Finding extensions is a pain in the ass.

I find http://safariextensions.org is a pretty decent compilation.

 

[reubs]

What's not mentioned is that Apple also introduced enhanced support for lags while switching tabs, more frequent beachballs, and DNS issues in the latest iteration of Safari.

 

[Yvan256]

I only want one extension: Disable animated GIFs. I just can't read if there's things moving everywhere on my screen.

 

[inferno10]

InvisibleHand FTW

 

[HiRez]

Will Safari extensions automatically detect when there's an update available and offer to install all updates at once, as in Firefox? If not, that's a pretty big drawback, no one wants to have to manually hunt down and separately install updates for all their extensions.

 

[tkermit]

Is there going to be an extension that fixes the iPhone 4 issues?

I would be satisfied with one that hides posts about iPhone 4 issues.

Will Safari extensions automatically detect [...] and install all updates

Yes, you can enable automatic updating in Safari's preferences panel.

 

[stoopkitty]

this is good, but they need to accept all extensions

this is the same thing with the app store all over again. the way they word it, "have your extention considered", makes it sound like they will have about 5 extensions. fine, make a place where its easy to find extensions, you can even scan them for virus, make sure they work, and categorize them, but don't pick and choose and have rules and do what you did with the app store!!

 

[tkermit]

this is the same thing with the app store all over again.

No, it's obviously not.

 

[nagromme]

I’d like an extension to remember a persistent Zoom level, please (I know you can fake it with CSS, but it’s not straightforward for most people.)

 

[G4DP]

OS 9.2.2 here we come!

Can't wait for all the crashes and Apple telling you to start with Extensions turned off.

So they now want private developers to advance their piece of software?

 

[BC2009]

Think we are seeing a new trend software distribution develop here. Once the iPhone/iPod touch user gets use to purchasing software via iTunes.....why not distribute it for the Mac that way too.....including, dah dah dah...Safari extensions

How is this different than the widget gallery they have had for some time now?

 

[nomar383]

If anyone uses SABnzbd+ for usenet, I have ported SABConnect from Chrome to Safari 5 and submitted it to Apple for inclusion.

You can see the official forum thread and download it here:
http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=4533.0

 

[BC2009]

Is there going to be an extension that fixes the iPhone 4 issues?

Can't we have a thread that is safe from the iPhone-4 antenna issue comments? Geeez.... there are already 10 or more threads on articles on MacRumors pertaining to iPhone-4 issues.

 

[rmwebs]

Is there going to be an extension that fixes the iPhone 4 issues?

Idiot. Take your iToy problems elsewhere.

 

[BC2009]

this is the same thing with the app store all over again. the way they word it, "have your extention considered", makes it sound like they will have about 5 extensions. fine, make a place where its easy to find extensions, you can even scan them for virus, make sure they work, and categorize them, but don't pick and choose and have rules and do what you did with the app store!!

if they are going to host a gallery, then they certainly have to leave some room to reject some. people could put out things that could get apple in PR or legal trouble. right now, apple is having enough PR trouble.

 

[Mitchelino]

i hope "click to flash" makes it to place one!

Same here. I love Click to Flash. Makes my life so much easier.

i hope "click to flash" makes it to place one!

...while my hope is that flash haters finally figure out how to uninstall the plugin.

I'm not a flash hater (and I doubt andiwm2003 is). Click to Flash is to stop flash videos/ads/etc. from loading while browsing a web page, yet it gives you the ability to click the blocked flash item to view it. This is very useful for blocking ads and selecting what flash items you want to view. Flash isn't dead yet, so I'm not going to uninstall the plugin yet.

 

[cocky jeremy]

I find http://safariextensions.org is a pretty decent compilation.

This is definitely good while we wait for Apple to get their site together. Thanks a lot.