When Safari dropped support for the old event model between 5.0.1 and 5.1, a bunch of Internet Plugins just stopped loading.

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Download RealPlayer. It's the best free media player available to play, manage and download all your mp3, flash and video files.

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Download Adobe Flash Player, the cross-platform browser plug-in that delivers breakthrough Web experiences to over 99% of Internet users.

There are some issues with Safari as of the posting date. Many people are trying to simply go Flash free.

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Download QuickTime 7 Player free for PC and Mac. Upgrade to QuickTime 7 Pro and capture video with a single click or convert media into a variety of formats.

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SafariOmnibar - Safari plugin to add Chrome like omnibar in Safari

One of the major advantages Chrome has over Safari is the combined address and search bar. This plugin solves that problem in a big way, by eliminating the search bar in Safari and replacing it with an "Omnibar".

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GreaseKit is a SIMBL plugin, that adds user scripting to Safari, Mailplane, Diet Pibb.app and all WebKit applications.

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Stumbi is a StumbleUpon plugin for Safari. The developer of this plugin seems to have gone out of business as their website is down.

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There's a new version of Glims available as of today, version 1.0b26, aka "build 26" Glad to see these guys cranking out the updates.

In short, there are a number of bug-fixes, though I must say, I don't think anything that was particularly bugging me.

The big changes are aThey've added a number of features around the preferences so that it is easier to figure out what Glims can actually do (excellent decision to treat the noobs better!)

Full list of updates and some before and after pics of the preferences after the break...Before...

After...

From the update notes...

This update requires OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or later.

Glims doesn't rely on Apple's session manager anymore which allows us to include history for undo and tab restoring.

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you experience any problems.

Some of the users reported that they had to restart their computer for the update to kick in.

Note: Italian and Korean localizations are discontinued for this version.

Whats new in build 26:

Added - Undo tabs now includes history Added - Restore tabs now includes history Added - Improved preference panels Added - More preference flags to the restore tabs Added - More preference options for undo Added - Google Latvia search suggestions

Fixed - Google Suggestions Links Fixed - Google Suggestions Words Fixed - Tabs not restoring properly Fixed - Wrong results while Google selected as search engine Fixed - Google SSL not showing thumbnails properly Fixed - Undo tabs reopen twice Fixed - Glims Agent log error Fixed - Tabs restore performance improvements Fixed - Commas are stripped from custom search engine URLs Fixed - More Safari5 improvements and more...

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You might think that the new extensions platform available in Safari 5 means lights out for the old school Safari kitchen-sink plugins like Glims, Saft, and Safari Stand.

Not so fast.

Last week the guys at MacHangOut.com updated Glims to fix the issues introduced by Safari 5. It's not dead yet. Here's why.

Quite simply, through backdoor programming access to the browser (via SIMBL apparently not via SIMBL, I was thinking of some other plugin. Thanks for the reader who straightened me out), it can do a good deal more than what can be done through the extensions browser API.

Here are my three top favorite features that make Glims a must-have on the Safari browser, even the new version 5.

More search engines in the search field

Glims allows you to easily configure any search engine you want in the search droplist, adding as many as you want to the default two three search engines provided by Safari. In addition, you can add hot-keys and key modifiers to the address bar.

Even if I don't use the many of the search engines in the drop list, the mere presence of this feature makes it useful to me. The google icon in the search box reminds me to type my searches in that field rather than the address bar, which I do chronically, and en up on the annoying Verizon search page that my ISP injects when it cannot resolve something that I type as a domain.

And if I do find myself typing a search in the address bar, I can just put a 'g' in front of the term and Glims will intercept it and perform a google search. I had to configure this. There don't seem to be any defaults here.

It simply makes the search feature better.

Search Suggestions

Glims adds an enhanced search window that gives suggestions as you type your search term for a set of configurable search engines.

This is configurable so you can choose which search engines supply these results, and how many to show.

Favicons in tabs

Glims adds the favicon for each site into the tab. I don't believe that Safari's new extension architecture allows this level of access to the browser. If it did, an extension would surely exist for this by now.

If this was the only feature in Glims, I'd be using it. Heck, I'd pay for this.

Most of the other features of Glims are being knocked off one by one by new Safari 5 extensions, but they're holding fast with these few killers that can only be implemented with an advanced plugin tool like SIMBL.

It also does appear that some of the old stand-by plugins are dropping off. It seems that Saft and Inquisitor have stopped development.

Get Glims here.

Update: Saft has a Safari 5 compatible Snow Leopard beta version available here. I misread the Saft FAQ page earlier and mis-interpreted the current state of the product. I have purchased an upgrade and will be trying it out.

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Updated: 02.11.05 License: Freeware URL: Acid Search 0.61 Requires: 10.3+, Safari 1.2+A powerful SIMBL plugin that adds extensive search engines to the Google search bar. Also implements find-as-you-type. New Features in AcidSearch 0.6

SnapBack fixed (for most channels) New Search Channel Repository, where you can share channels with others Set the encoding for individual search channels Change the color of Find As You Type's selection

Changes for 0.61

Bugfixes Preferences window redesigned (again)

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