Inputmanagers Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Lost your favorite Safari plugin after upgrading to Snow Leopard? Try 32-bit mode

by Chris Rawson (Sep 3rd, 2009)

Snow Leopard has brought a host of improvements to OS X, but Safari has been changed in one way that could ruin your day if you're used to using third-party plugins. Support for Input Managers has been removed in 64-bit Safari, which means that popular Safari plugins like Saft won't work. Getting ...

SIMBL plugin woes after 10.5.3?

by Cory Bohon (May 28th, 2008)

Did you get home only to find that Mac OS X 10.5.3 had been released today? Well, just as some users were unpacking and installing the shiny new update, issues with SIMBL plug-ins were discovered. If you have SIMBL plugins installed, then you may have an error show up when you try to launch an ...

Inquisitor is updated for Leopard

by Mike Schramm (Nov 27th, 2007)

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 ...

Inquisitor updates, and is doomed?

by Mike Schramm (Aug 26th, 2007)

Inquisitor, a bee-you-tiful Safari plugin that allows you to get instant, Spotlight-esque search results, has updated to 3.0 v43, adding "aesthetic tweaks" (always nice) and slightly better output from Google. The new version is available for free download right now. And unfortunately, it may be the ...

Leopard Axing Input Managers?

by Mat Lu (Mar 24th, 2007)

There's a disturbing rumor floating around the Mac web today. According to this article at Infinite Loop, Leopard will no longer support Input Manager hacks. Input Managers allow programmers to insert code into cocoa applications, thus allowing the addition of new functionality. etc. These are ...