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).
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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.
January 31 2008 at 8:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySaft 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?
November 25 2007 at 6:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyVery 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.
November 20 2007 at 11:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyi 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.
Is the Input Manager version not working for anybody else? I'm wondering if it's some residual of PlugSuit.
November 07 2007 at 1:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyanswer: hold down control when launching the SAFT app to restore the option
November 06 2007 at 7:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI 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?
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.
November 06 2007 at 3:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDan 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
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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