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Inquisitor is updated for Leopard

Well slap my Safari and call me Susan-- it seems that the rumors of Inquisitor's demise (like so many things nowadays) were greatly exaggerated. Apple Reporter points out that Inquisitor, the Safari search plugin that everyone likes so much, has been "repackaged" for Leopard. Originally, we were told that the fact that InputManagers were being discontinued in the new OS would kill off Inquisitor and other Safari plugins that used them, but Inquisitor works.

Of course, as we've already noted, noone knows for how long. But it seems that instead of deleting them whole hog, Apple just reined InputManagers in, and Inquisitor was able to stay in business. Good news.

Well slap my Safari and call me Susan-- it seems that the rumors of Inquisitor's demise (like so many things nowadays) were greatly...
 

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Evan

I always hated Inquisitor. Its search suggestions feature always took just long enough to screw up your typing, so you ended up missing a letter or word etc..

Anyone who hasn't used it yet, I advise to stay away. Its awful!

November 29 2007 at 1:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tym

So is there something like this for Safari on Windows?

November 28 2007 at 5:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Paulo Matsui

I'm a Acquisition user. When David Watanabe (the same guy behind Inquisitor and "the most hated developer in the Mac community") promised Acquisition licensees "full upgrades for life", I believed him and bought a copy. Now he upgraded Acquisition to version 2 and "warned" that since this is a major upgrade, none of the previous licenses would be good. I questioned him on the subject. He was totally rude ("stop wasting space on my blog"...) and said that promise was done before I bought my copy. I hope that Apple lock this idiot out.

November 28 2007 at 12:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Leroy

hm, i used to use inquisitor, but then i remembered that mozilla also gets paid from firefox search queries, apple from safari's, which means david is getting paid for people using inquisitor. Now if you're familiar with his 'business practices', aka taking an open-source project, bolt a new UI on it, and sell that, then giving the man money seems crazy to me. So i stopped using it, happily using the original search bar ;)

November 28 2007 at 11:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Geoff

The reason I stopped using Inquisitor? When it offers suggestions as you type, it's actually Googling for each of those on the fly.

That means my browsing history (and the router logs at our conservative office) showed lots of Google searches for things like "Paris Hilton" and "Angelina Jolie's body" as a result of me typing "party favors" and "angels."

That was a little hard to figure out and explain to the IT Administrator ... once I got the problem nailed down, bye bye Inquisitor.

November 28 2007 at 9:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris Parker

You might be interested to know that PicLens (another great input manager plugin) was also updated a while back for Leopard. These are the only two plugins I need for Safari.

November 28 2007 at 7:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ben

Must be a problem at your end Rob. Plenty of users have been using this version trouble-free for weeks...

November 28 2007 at 5:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rob

Well Susan and all the fans of Susan, I installed Inquistor 3 and now I can't close windows with command-w. And I can't seem to uninstall it, so DON'T install it until this is fixed.

November 28 2007 at 4:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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wpm

Rob, I had the same problem. The fix: delete taboo.bundle from /library/application support/SIMBL/Plugins.

December 01 2007 at 5:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mac Boy

I finally broke down and ordered a Mac book, I find this very interesting to read. I am loving the Mac so far but still in the "getting comfortable" stage with using it.

I thought I would let you know about this really amusing post I found while trying to learn how to use the Leopard operating system
http://www.gadgethabit.com/2007/10/29/watch-out-bill-there%e2%80%99s-a-leopard-chasing-you/

Now back to learning about this Mac thing, so far I am loving it and can't believe I stuck around on the windows platform for so long.

November 28 2007 at 3:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Simon Arch

"Well slap my Safari and call me Susan"

How 'bout I call you Thrakkorzog instead?

November 28 2007 at 3:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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