Many many versions of Safari ago, I used a handy little plugin (well, it’s a whole lotta plugins from one dev), called Saft. Saft is extensible as it gets, covering just about every feature that someone would want from Firefox’s add-ons ability, for instance, in Safari. I really enjoyed the ad blocking features, kiosk mode (for the house guests) etc.
Many downloads and installs later, I have all but forgotten about it. But, lately I’ve been thinking about quality content to bring to safarihacks.com, so I’ve done some searching.
Lo and behold, I found Saft! I believe I’ve found the actual dev’s site too, not just a link from versiontracker. As I attempt to contact the dev, and make a permanent home for Saft in our plugins section, you can download Saft here.
For those of you that have never had Saft installed, or are just curious about it’s features, here’s the rundown.
Saft is available for Mac OS X only (But there is a version for just about every OS X, support for outdated versions is obviously limited)
Feature list:
- 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
- AutoComplete always on
- 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
- Create dated folder for downloaded files
- 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
- Fix for Frame Creation Attack
- Fix for Safari AutoFill Information Disclosure
- Focus the last selected tab when closing the current one
- Full-screen browsing
- Google Safe Browsing
- Growl support
- History search
- Install debug menu
- Kiosk mode
- Max screen for normal browser windows
- Modified “Open in Tabs”
- One-page PDF export
- Open tab in new window
- Option to use Aqua interface
- Original URLs in Spotlight comments of downloaded files, exported PDFs and saved pages
- Plain copy
- Print All
- Reload All Tabs
- Reversed tab order
- Save and load browser windows
- Save tabs and save all
- Separator in bookmark menu
- Shortcut for Look Up in Dictionary
- Sidebar
- Sort bookmarks in every bookmark menus
- Stop download warnings
- Tab rearranging with drag and drop
- Tab search
- Tab thumbnails
- Type-ahead searching
- Undo support for closing tab and closing other tabs
- Undo support in TextField
- URL shortcuts
- URL traverse with return-key
- Work-around of click-through bug in WebKit
Obviously this is worth a try, so I highly encourage to try it in Safari Beta 4. Keep in mind that all previous versions will need to be removed before attempting to install this version. More on installation can be found directly from the Saft page.
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