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PlugSuit: legacy plugins in Safari 3 for Leopard

I have to be honest, as a browser, Safari, on its own, does very little for me. In my pre-switcher life I loved Firefox, in large part because of its plug-in structure - and although Safari is certainly more stable than FF (on my system at least) - it's not the same. Luckily, a number of good plug-ins for Safari DO exist. Unfortunately, many of those plug-ins have not been updated to be fully compatible with Safari 3 (which was previously in beta) or Leopard. In fact, because of the way Input Manager was changed with Leopard, there was a lot of speculation that plug-in development for Safari would become obsolete.

That's where PlugSuit from Infinite Labs comes in. PlugSuit is a Leopard compatible plug-in manager that will work with many popular Tiger plug-ins like Inquisitor and SafariStand without changing a thing. Infinite Labs also makes the great free plug-in, Twicetab (that allows users to open up a new tab simply by double clicking on the tab bar, a la FireFox or Opera), and users even have the option of downloading and installing PlugSuit and Twicetab together. Plus, it's free! It's important to note that that plug-ins that were not designed with Leopard in mind may still have some problems or not function correctly. Infinite Labs says that most that were developed for the latest Safari 3 beta should work, but double-check with the plug-in developer to ensure compatibility.

My favorite non plug-in Safari hack, J.Y. Design's Full Screen script, works just fine with Leopard.

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I have to be honest, as a browser, Safari, on its own, does very little for me. In my pre-switcher life I loved Firefox, in large part...
 

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Aaron

Saft 10.0 for MacOS 10.5 and Safari 3.0.4 (5523.10)
Saft is now a Safari launcher. To enable Saft features, run Saft.app and it will start Safari with Saft plugin loaded. This change is due to MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) has dropped the support of InputManagers.

Improvement: MacOS 10.5 and Safari 3.0.4 (5523.10) support

http://haoli.dnsalias.com/Saft/Download/index.html

October 29 2007 at 9:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MILE

David Watanabe just released an update to Inquisitor -- it works just as before, without any need for additional plugins or whatever...! :)

I guess that's good news, we'll probably see most of the other ones updated as well over the next few days...!?

October 28 2007 at 1:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
K

Saft:

Saft for Leopard
Apple has released Leopard, but did not give us developers the GM version of it for testing. Saft for Leopard is delayed by few days to be verifed to work with the public release of Leopard. Please check Saft site later for Leopard release.
Posted on 27 Oct 2007.

http://haoli.dnsalias.com/

October 28 2007 at 8:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
millenomi

A small aside about InputManagers: PlugSuit loads them but doesn't use Apple's loading method: it uses a way that Apple says won't go away for a while (injection via mach_inject), so it will continue to work even if InputManager capabilities are removed.

If you feel there's a bug, please report it ASAP at plugsuit@infinite-labs.net. Thanks!

October 28 2007 at 3:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
john russell

This Preference Pane is a godsend. When I installed Leopard today and opened Safari, I was crushed when SafariStand and Inquisitor didn't work. I installed PlugSuit and boom—both started working on my Rev. A Intel Mac Mini. Other plugins, however, such as Blacktree's Visor for Terminal crashed.

October 27 2007 at 10:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Carlos Fonseca

inquisitor works for me, but Mail.appetizer doesn't
:(

October 27 2007 at 8:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nuno Sousa

PlugSuit was giving me problems aswell, but I have to admit, its a way better alternative than hacking around InputManagers. I'm sure once all the bugs are ironed out, it will be great.

However, in the meantime, I was attempting to get my existing InputManagers working using the TextMate method. I simply could not.

I copied Inquisitor.bundle (for example) and did:

sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/InputManagers
sudo chmod -R 755 /Library/InputManagers

Nothing. Doesn't load in Safari.

October 27 2007 at 7:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MILE

Not sure what I am missing here, but none of the plugins I tried seem to be working...!?! Inquisitor, PithHelmet, FLVR...nothing...!? I even installed them again and they don't work...and also the freshly installed ones don't show up in the PlugSuit list of installed plugins...!?!

And if that wasn't bad enough, it broke my install of 1password as well...!! 2.5 worked for me, then I installed 2.5.1 today, which worked as well...until I installed PlugSuit -- now I can't get 1Password to show up in Safari anymore...!! :(((

Hopefully I can uninstall it somehow and at least get 1Password working again...! I'll worry about the other plugins later then...

October 27 2007 at 6:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Quine

...and in a week or two all of these will be updated to work flawlessly with leopard. It's only been out 22 hours O_O.

October 27 2007 at 6:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Luigi193

This is so weird... i was just talking to my dad about this!!! I don't want to buy saft...so i got an add blocking program called Safariblock, which is an InputManger. I was so sad it wouldn't work in leopard, but now it will!!! Now i am happies...

October 27 2007 at 5:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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