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Most Wanted Safari 5 Extensions

Keyword search
Tabs on top
Unified Search & Address Bar
Cookie whitelisting and deleting on browser exit (marked cookies don't get deleted upon browser exit)
 
Unified Search + address bar
Tabs on top

I'm not someone who has 50 tabs open (not sure how some people do that), yet I'm a power user. I've never liked Firefox (too clunky for me, and it *needs* to have extensions to "work") and I switched from Chrome when I discovered the Top Sites feature on Safari that tells me a site has been updated with a little blue star.

If I can get the two features I indicated (which I dearly miss from Chrome), I would be in love.
 
Zooming

I defected from OmniWeb for Safari 5.
But OmniWeb has site preferences and once Full Page Zoom is enabled
each of your favorite sites zoom to your preset Zoom.
If OmniWeb and Firefox can do it Safari should also.....
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Keyword search. I'm not switching to Safari 5 until an extension for this comes out. I've just gotten too used to it.
 
Iglio said:
I NEED tabs on top and integrated search+address bar...Chrome has popped my tab/integrated bar cherry and now i can't go back
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I don't know if anyone else remembers this, but I could swear that the Safari 4 Beta had tabs in the title bar. I thought it was the coolest thing, and then when Safari 4 was officially released, it disappeared. It couldn't be that hard to add back in or modify, I mean cripes, Safari 5 is almost identical to the old one appearance wise.
 
drewdle said:
I don't know if anyone else remembers this, but I could swear that the Safari 4 Beta had tabs in the title bar. I thought it was the coolest thing, and then when Safari 4 was officially released, it disappeared. It couldn't be that hard to add back in or modify, I mean cripes, Safari 5 is almost identical to the old one appearance wise.
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You can't go back to tabs on top. If you ever find a way to post it here on the forums.
 
A multi rows bookmark bar would be most appreciated.

And an alphabetical sort of bookmarks (as many have suggested).
 
I would like something that works like chrome to phone.

I have an Android phone (don't shoot me - it was far cheaper than the iPhone :p) and in chrome theres a button that will send whatever you're reading straight to your phone. Theres also a firefox add on for it.
 
Not all of the new safari ext work. Instapaper does not. I counn't find it anywhere in safari and had to uninstall it.
 
applesupergeek said:
Another one of your typical irrelevant posts trying to portray apple as lacking in features support for safari.
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I believe this thread was about what extensions we would like for Safari, not what limitations we have found.
Custom search engines are already there with glims, so with the extension api out there, this is all the more so a non issue.
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I will look into Glims, but I don't like to use haxie software since it usually breaks with updates.
Opera sync is there, and it's called mobile me.
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True. I guess I already have it then, since I'm a MobileMe user. (I don't hate Apple or Safari despite what you may think)
Opera Turbo is something particular to opera (which I love and admire as a great browser btw) that won't be coming any time soon to safari because it's supposed to be the mobility component of opera which is primarily a mobile browser platform, and safari is not.
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It still wouldn't hurt if someone made an extension that did the same thing as Opera Turbo.
There are plenty of torrent software, excellent and open source ones for the mac, no reason to incorporate that in the browser, because there is no reason why you should have a browser open to run torrents, these are separate processes and unrelated ones.
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I like to have my torrents downloaded in the browser since I like to treat torrents the same as web downloads. I'm having a hard time understanding why you felt the need to shoot down all my extension suggestions.
 
As for the request request for bookmark synchronization with Firefox, you can achieve that goal with Xmarks. You just install both the Xmarks for Safari and Firefox, that's all. Sign up an account and Xmarks can sync your bookmarks across platforms and browsers. Chrome is supported as well. I've used it for few years now, it's always been great. Give it a try.
 
Some sort of cookie management with white/blacklists would be great. The Cookie Monster extension in Firefox is a good example of this.
 
I want sync everything: bookmark, extensions, settings, etc...just like chrome.
 
Much better bookmark management (and what's with the smallest font on os x being on the bookmarks window???? increase the font size, make them usable) with tags, smart folder, an integrated search pane when adding a bookmarks so you don't scroll down hundreds of folders, icons (oh yes please!!) for each bookmark folder - this is really important I don't want to read through, I want to quickly (and brain science tells us we are almost 100 times faster registering an image than text) scan through an image of a folder in my bookmarks just as I do on my desktop and in finder where I 've set images to folders I use -.

Please also enable someway to save the reader or readability produced txt, this again is very very important, what's the use in reading clutter free text if you can't save it and archive it for reading say on an ipad clutter free or for future reference clutter free.
 
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