Filed under: Internet Tools, Leopard
Saft 10.0.1 is fully Leopard compatible
Back when we were worried about Input Managers in Leopard, the biggest cause of concern for me was the potential loss of Saft, the absolutely essential plugin for Safari from Hao Li. Well now that the situation has settled down (at least for the time being), Hao has released a new version of Saft 10.0.1 that conforms to the new Input Manager restrictions in Leopard. It has basically the same features as before, but is now compatible with Safari 3.0.4 in Leopard. He originally released Saft 10.0 as a Safari launcher (which actually didn't work for me), but the new 10.0.1 version allows it to run as an Input Manager and works like a charm.Saft 10.0.1 is $12 to buy or $6 to upgrade from the Tiger version. A demo is also available. As far as I'm concerned, it's worth every penny (and then some).
Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Georgi said 8:24AM on 1-31-2008
To remove saft.app start it as app launcher by clicking control + click. Dont start it as a plugin and then remove the saft.app because it will give you an error message everytime you start safari.
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Andrew said 9:00AM on 11-06-2007
Finally! Safari is whole again!
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Andrew said 9:03AM on 11-06-2007
Finally! Safari is whole again!
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Ben said 9:03AM on 11-06-2007
Saft and me are like this!
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Ben said 9:04AM on 11-06-2007
--crosses fingers--
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christian said 9:09AM on 11-06-2007
I have been using it for the last couple of days, but I find it slows down Safari considerably and more so than before. Also its filters seem to be broken, i.e. on some sites they do not work very well (or not at all).
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ron said 9:23AM on 11-06-2007
how come TUAW are allways 2-3 days late?
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Richard Thomas said 5:54PM on 11-06-2007
@ Ben
HAHA! nah man me and Saft are better friends that you are. I just talked to Saft and told me he doesn't like you :P jk!
yeh the safari launcher wasnt a very good fix... i had two safaris in my dock and the only way i could launch safari with saft was to open saft in the inputmanagers folder.
a working inputmanager is a welcomed fix!
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Dan said 7:33PM on 11-06-2007
I originally installed (Saft gives you the choice on first launch) the new version as an app launcher. I want to switch to an input manager. Does anyone know how to get that to happen - deleting the app and reinstalling doesn't do the trick. (SAFT is great, but documentation is sparse...)
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Greg said 12:25PM on 11-06-2007
I love Saft, bought it for Leopard yesterday (but have been using it for a while). But ever since I installed it, my bookmarks bar has disappeared!!! The bookmarks from the bookmarks bar still appear in the dropdown menu, but the bar itself is gone!!!
I can't find a link to contact Hao Li and ask whether this could be symptomatice of a Saft glitch or not, and it's starting to bother me. Has anyone else experienced this?
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Michael Nerad said 2:40PM on 11-06-2007
Dan and Greg,
I think I can help you with your questions.
Greg, if you click on the "View" menu in Safari, the first option in the drop down menu is "Hide Bookmarks Bar". If you select this option from the View menu, your bookmarks bar will return to normal.
Dan, I found the way to switch Saft for Leopard from an app launcher to an input manager or from an input manager to an app launcher.
The process is simple, but I don't think very "Mac-like"
Instead of double clicking on the Saft icon in the Applications folder to start Saft, simply click on the icon while holding down the Control key, or by right clicking on the Saft icon. From the drop-down contextual menu, select the first item "Open".
A dialogue box will open and you then have the option to use Saft as either an app launcher or change to input manager mode. If you decide later that you want to change back, just use the same process to change modes.
I think this is really a non-standard method to selecting the manner in which you are able to access some of the options that are available when you start programs.
It seems sort of hacky to me. Maybe this will improve as Haoli has more time to make the change to Leopard.
Michael
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JD said 3:42PM on 11-06-2007
I agree that it seems to slow Safari down way more than it did (with Safari 3) in Tiger. When I open a bunch of tabs at once, I get much more spinning-beachball than either before (Saft with Tiger) or when I just use Safari in Leopard without Saft. I hope he can figure out why.
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jonathan said 7:09PM on 11-06-2007
I tried out the demo but changed my mind when I realized that Safari still has no way to delete all the cookies upon exit EXCEPT a few that are whitelisted. Until that is available I cannot use safari.
But now I cannot get rid of Saft. It says to remove, just delete Saft.app, but then when you do that you get a warning message every time you start Safari.
Anybody know how to delete this thing properly?
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Dan said 8:13PM on 11-06-2007
answer: hold down control when launching the SAFT app to restore the option
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Mike said 2:34AM on 11-07-2007
Is the Input Manager version not working for anybody else? I'm wondering if it's some residual of PlugSuit.
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south said 10:31PM on 11-13-2007
i used to like Saft, even paid for it. But since Hao Li won't reply to messages or support the program he wrote, i'm looking elsewhere for answers. Stand seems to fill most of the gap.
but geez, come on Apple -- why do we even need plugins just to make your browser perform basic functions like session saving and tab control? these should all be in Preferences.
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pHfactor said 11:18AM on 11-20-2007
Very disappointed with Leopard Saft. Too buggy to be workable, and emails to Hao Li unanswered. I'm also disappointed in TUAW for being such uncritical fanboys.
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jmorton said 6:27PM on 11-25-2007
Saft as an Input Manager won't "install" for me either. It did initially, but then I needed to disable it, so I started the Saft program which let me use it simply as a launcher. Now I'd like to return to using it as an input manager, but can't get it to install in that way again. Any thoughts?
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