Saft

Updated: 21.06.10 License: Shareware - $15 URL: Saft Requires: 10.5.3+ and Safari 3.1.1+

Saft is quite simply the vital extension for Safari. Its started life as a way of getting full screen/kiosk mode, but has grown to include many other features as well. Hao Li, the developer, is regularly adding new features, and updates are always available soon after a main Safari update.

Saft has a number of versions depending on which Mac OS and Safari version you're using. Currently available for download as of June 24, 2010:

Saft 12.1.0 PB 3 for Snow Leopard and Safari 5.0 Saft 11.1 PB for Leopard and Safari 5.0 Saft 9.3 PB for Tiger and Safari 4.1

Safari 5 has made a made at least one feature obsolete (tab close undo). The author has removed that feature from versions 11 and 12.

Features:

Ad/banner blocking with simple URL pattern matching Add bookmark folder here and add bookmark here in every bookmark menus Always open browser window in tab Auto hide Downloads window Auto save and restore opened browser windows at quitting and start Block animation Block HTML refreshing in front-most browser Block images and plugins Bookmark search Bookmark this group of tabs Consolidate browser windows Control-1 to 9 to popup bookmark menu or open bookmark Control-drag page Crash protection Customizable HTTP timeout Customized Google search field Do not allow scripts to bring tab to front Drag tab buttons to add the URL string to other applications Enter/ctrl-enter to go to next/previous links (like in Google) Export Selected Bookmarks Extended search from contextual menu External text editor support for TextArea Focus the last selected tab when closing the current one Full-screen browsing Growl support History search Install debug menu Kiosk mode Max screen for normal browser windows One-page PDF export Open tab in new window Option to use Aqua interface Original URLs in Finder comments of downloaded files, exported PDFs and saved pages Save and load browser windows Separator in bookmark menu Sidebar Sort bookmarks in every bookmark menus Stop download warnings Tab rearranging with drag and drop Type-ahead searching Undo support for closing tab (removed in Safari 5 versions) Undo support in HTML TextArea and TextField URL shortcuts URL traverse with return-key Work-around of click-through bug in WebKit

Saft is now a Universal binary. Changes for 10.5.3

Improvement: Better info about blocked pages (ad blocking or Google Safe Browsing) Bug fix: Block Image Animation not functioning in Leopard Bug fix: Block HTML Refreshing not functioning in Leopard

Changes for versions 11.1 (Leopard) and 12.1 (Snow Leopard)

Safari 5.0 (6533.16) support Undo closing tab supported changed to use native implementation of Safari 5, but Saft still restores history Added "Sort Top Level" to the contextual menu of the bookmarks window Search field extension not functional