Avram Grumer's Safari Extension list

Avram Grumer over at the MakingLight blog has a great list of his favorite extensions.

Plain Gmail by Brad Lindsay ??" Modifies the mail composing field in Gmail to use your browser's default fixed-width font. (I like Inconsolata.) YouTube5 by Connor McKay ??" "This extension removes the need to use flash on YouTube by converting all videos to their HTML5 video tag equivalents. It also has the added benefits of decreased CPU usage compared to flash, and the removal of in-video ads."

Linkify by Nicholas White ??" Turns plain-text URLs into real hyperlinks.

Helvetify by Johan Brook ??" Sets the current webpage's font to Helvetica Neue. (I think you probably need to have Helvetica Neue installed on your machine for this to work. Interacts unpredictably with existing stylesheets. I'll probably remove this one after a while.)

BlockTarget by Sven Weidauer ??" Removes the target attribute from links to keep them from opening in new windows. (I don't know if this is limited to target="_blank".)

Delicious by Paulo César Machado Jeveaux ??" Opens a new tab with a Delicious bookmark-saving form populated with the current tab's title and URL. (My Delicious.com bookmarks.)

Deanimator by Mat Sadler ??" Deactivates animated GIFs. (Seems to work automatically on all animated GIFs, rather than allowing you to enjoy clever animations and click something to disable annoying ones.)

AdBlock by Michael ??" Blocks ads.

NoMoreiTunes by Florian Pichler ??" Disables the script that tries to start iTunes when you visit a link to the iTunes Store.

In that post, he's also got some interesting thoughts on signed vs. unsigned apps and how this may play out in the coming months.

Marco Tabini has an article on Macworld with more background about Safari extensions. I think he's wrong when he says "Safari will refuse to install any extension that has not been signed with a digital certificate issued by Apple", because Safari happily installed a bunch of unsigned extensions for me.

I think so too.  It does warn me when I go to install an

Update: Something that just occurred to me: Perhaps the regular MacOS X version of Safari 5 will be able to load extensions from arbitrary sources, and the iPhone/iPad version will be locked in to the official Apple gallery with the cryptographic signing and the vetting and the centralized control and the censored genitals. That'd be in keeping with how Apple is handling software on the two platforms.

via Making Light: Safari 5.

This is an interesting idea and distinction.  I can definitely see Apple restricting extension installations to the official gallery.

But we're getting ahead of ourselves, no?  Has Apple announced anything about extensions working on the iPhone and iPad?

I haven't seen anything.