Enhance Safari with AcidSearch

Roberto, that's the problem with ALL these plugins-- you're only a point-release away from them not working. And the developer (often alone in the dark), might never update it... Saft does do regular updates, but what if they're hit with a C&D from Apple? Can they fight it?
I don't use any Firefox extensions either. Bah humbug!

I used to use AcidSearch, but I replaced it with Sogudi plugins for the regular toolbar. Now I can just type "wp " for a wikipedia search. It's much more efficient. I just wish we could get rid of the search field entirely, but I notice that the snapback icon defaults to the latter for some reason.

Yeah, this is nothing compared to Inquisitor.

No, no, no. Obviously personal choice plays into this, but AcidSearch kicks Inquisitor across the room. That's mainly because it's free, but the plugin makes adding additional search engines effortless. I particularly enjoy the shortcut feature, which allows you to set up a search engine so that when you type, say, "mu iTunes visualizer" (mu = MacUpdate), it'll go directly to MacUpdate. This generally gets you to what you need faster than Inquisitor, though its guessing system is pretty sophisticated.

Good, now I can have this for free.

I prefer acidsearch due to the fact that adding custom searches is so incredibly easy - it analyses a page and generates the url for you, something which for sites with long, obscure query strings is great. Inquisitor is good for searching but I couldn't face re-setting up the 30 odd searches I have in Acid Search.

One neat thing I noticed was that if you install AcidSearch, set it up with your search engines then install Inquisitor over it, you still get the AcidSearch options from within pages, so if you select a word then "right" click it you can search them from any of your acidsearch choices.

This is a great tool, but it breaks every time I need to update safari. it will keep popping up this amazingly annoying message or prevent the browser from opening entirely until I manually remove the plugin. If it could disable it's self, that would be amazing until then, It's a disappointment every time I have to get rid of it and wait

Not nearly as good as Inquisitor, by the guy who makes Acquisition...