Safari extensions gallery, Safari 5.0.1 available

That wasn't a very long wait. Apple has finally published the Safari extensions gallery we've been anticipating for a few weeks. There's a large number of extensions available right off the bat, including some from The New York Times, Major League Baseball, Amazon and Bing.

There's also an official Twitter extension that looks similar to the Ostrich extension we pointed out yesterday. In fact, extensions are available across several categories, like social networking, news, photos, productivity and security. Root through and find something you'll like; we're partial to Brett's Tablinks extension for copying all the URLs from your open tabs.

Note that you'll need Safari 5.0.1, which was also released today (check Software Update). In addition to the extensions support, Safari 5.0.1 includes more accurate top hits results in the address field and improved scrolling through MobileMe Mail. It's also notable that the Safari Extensions Gallery is now an option in the Safari Menu, just below About Safari. A restart is required to complete installation.

Enjoy the new extensions gallery and point out any gems you find.

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Source: http://extensions.apple.com/

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Lisa Malloju

Nice but not fully satisfied.
http://www.myspace.com/lisamalloju

July 29 2010 at 11:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

colouroflight

Am I crazy, or am I running Safari 5.0 with extension support right now?

July 29 2010 at 10:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Shunnabunich

The difference, extensions-wise, is that 5.0 had them turned off by default and didn't have the direct link to the Extensions Gallery in the Safari menu. Still worth the update for security's sake.

July 29 2010 at 1:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shunnabunich

They're going to have to find a better layout than that if they get many more extensions in there.

July 29 2010 at 12:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jenny

Ostrich would be nice IF it worked all the time. Defacer and Adblock are the best ones so far.

July 28 2010 at 11:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brett

Wait, I'm confused... what kind of product do you sell?

July 28 2010 at 3:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

vjevtic

Don't know if anyone noticed, but the 2-finger-iphone-like scrolling is now working on Safari... pretty cool indeed :-)
(was it the Safari update or the magic trackpad one that did it ?)
vjevtic

July 28 2010 at 1:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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vjevtic

Update... Actually, inertia scrolling is now part of the trackpad prefs pane and therefore works w/ all apps... don't know if this is new to all but it's definitely a cool minor update ;-)

July 28 2010 at 1:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

AppleZilla

First thing I installed. 'Defacer.' Goodbye, Facebook crapola cluttering up my blogs, news and other sites.

July 28 2010 at 1:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

frank

so far i love what i'm seeing and using, but my only quibble (and this might be something that needs to be addressed on the developer side, i think) is with the fonts used in the extensions. i'd love to be able to control the size and fonts used on the extensions that make new bars in safari. some of them are too fugly for my tastes.

July 28 2010 at 12:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

SCUM

Nice - but looks like safariextensions.org has a more thorough list.

July 28 2010 at 11:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tdowling

I'm curious to see how the extensions affect speed and stability. It'd be nice if there were a way to track the amount of resources being taken by each one that's installed.

July 28 2010 at 10:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply