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Inquisitor updates, and is doomed?

Inquisitor, a bee-you-tiful Safari plugin that allows you to get instant, Spotlight-esque search results, has updated to 3.0 v43, adding "aesthetic tweaks" (always nice) and slightly better output from Google. The new version is available for free download right now.

And unfortunately, it may be the last version-- Dave Watanabe, the creator, writes on his blog that the rumors say Input Manager, which is the construct that Inquisitor uses to work the way it does, may be eliminated in Leopard. And that would leave a lot of plugins, including Inquisitor, out in the cold. It's not guaranteed yet-- some say that while Input Manager may be disabled by default, it'll still be allowed to be enabled when a plugin tries to use them-- but Watanabe says that if Apple ditches it completely, it would mean the end of Inquisitor.

Supposedly Apple claims Input Managers are a security risk, but Watanabe is asking Inquisitor fans to send them feedback asking to keep the construct in Leopard. Then again, Apple isn't really a company that takes advice on how to update its software, but losing plugins like Inquisitor would definitely be a shame.

Thanks, Space Taker!

Inquisitor, a bee-you-tiful Safari plugin that allows you to get instant, Spotlight-esque search results, has updated to 3.0 v43, adding...
 

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JeremyC

Inquisitor doesn't work for me in Leopard, so I'm assuming that Input Manager is toast in Leopard. It's too bad because it was a great time saver. Can you add another TUAW post to bring attention to this?

October 29 2007 at 9:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
J Brown

Bugger. I love inquisitor. Let's hope that their is a stable work around, or that apple buys inquisitor. As with others, inquisitor is the reason i started using safari again.

September 02 2007 at 9:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jonathan Badeen

Code stealer or not he makes some really cool apps. I've purchased some of them knowing full well that there are free alternatives but he does a great job in ui and bringing together useful features into a nice pretty package.

August 27 2007 at 11:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
R. Cabell

It's too bad... InputManager is a much cleaner way to inject code than the alternatives, ie, Unsanity's crash-happy crapware.

August 27 2007 at 11:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JD

We've known for a couple months or so that Leopard doesn't have InputManager. Handy things like Textpander is out too.

On a default install, I don't think InputManager is a security risk because it isn't enabled, the user has to create the directory. I really don't think that most Mac users have the functionality enabled.

August 27 2007 at 10:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Axel

Without saft and inquisitor I wouldn't use safari

August 27 2007 at 4:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark S

I'd surely miss Inquisitor. It's an add-on that brings me back to Safari time and time again. I really wish that Apple would buy the rights to it as they did with Coverflow. It just seems like a natural extension of Spotlight.

I really don't care what people say about the developer. Although I may not always agree with his pricing model, he does great work and he actually DOES give credit for any open source technologies he uses in his apps such as the Limewire core in Acquisition and his use of libtransmission in Xtorrent. Honestly, folks. Just open the "about" window in Acquisition or Xtorrent. I've never had problems with any of his products (except when Inquisitor stops working due to changes made by Google, but he is very proactive in getting a fix out).

August 27 2007 at 12:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jon

Great, except Watanabe is a code stealer... so I really won't shed too many tears over this.

August 26 2007 at 11:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joshua Ochs

Watanabe is a parasite and should not be supported.

Amen, OCM. Inquisitor is great and free (for now), but just look at his long history with XTorrent, Acquisition, and others to get an idea of how he treats his users, uses open source software without proper attribution, and basically abuses anyone and anything to make money.

August 26 2007 at 8:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joseph

been using it since the previous version and i love it also one of the reasons i started using Safari again along with some new Safari 3.0 features. Still use Camino and Firefox occasionally!

August 26 2007 at 7:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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