Safari extensions Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Quickly enable or disable JavaScript in Safari

by TJ Luoma (Jan 4th, 2011)

By using "Disable JavaScript" on Safari's Develop menu, you can eliminate annoyances from some websites, without the frustration of disabling JavaScript altogether. I'll even show you how to make a custom keyboard shortcut for it, so your fingers never even have to leave the keyboard. The ...

Safari Extension highlight: Stop animated GIFs, make your own CSS

by TJ Luoma (Oct 18th, 2010)

Earlier today I was looking for a Safari Extensions that could stop animated GIFs, and another to allow me to override CSS on a particular page. After a fruitless search of the official Safari Extensions page, Google turned up both Deanimator and User CSS. Deanimator takes care of my first ...

Safari Extension highlight: gleeBox

by Dave Caolo (Sep 27th, 2010)

With the addition of the Safari Extensions Gallery to Apple's website, TUAW will be highlighting extensions that we think are special, useful, or just plain fun. gleeBox will certainly delight keyboard jockeys, as it replaces many browser-based tasks you'd typically complete by mousing around ...

Safari extension highlight: Add to Reader

by Dave Caolo (Sep 13th, 2010)

With the addition of the Safari Extensions Gallery to Apple's website, TUAW is highlighting extensions that we think are special, useful, or just plain fun. Today's extension highlight is Add to Reader by Richard Käll. Like most of the extensions we've highlighted so far, it makes one aspect of ...

Safari extension highlight: Naked Twitter

by Dave Caolo (Sep 6th, 2010)

Here's an extension that's quite at home with Cleaner YouTube. Naked Twitter relieves your Twitter account's homepage of all the sidebar clutter. The only remaining links (profile, replies, direct messages and log out) are represented by small icons at the top of the page. Additionally, there are no ...

Safari extension highlight: Better Geocaching

by Steven Sande (Aug 6th, 2010)

Although I don't get a chance to do as much geocaching as I'd like to, I still check the Geocaching.com cache maps on occasion to see what's new in the area. Usually, I do this by checking with the US$9.99 Geocaching app, but sometimes I find myself logging into the Geocaching.com website to do my ...

Safari extension highlight: MLB.com Toolbar

by Steven Sande (Jul 30th, 2010)

With the addition of the Safari Extensions Gallery to Apple's website over the last few days, TUAW will be highlighting extensions that we think are special, useful, or just plain fun. I'm a baseball fan, but other than my beloved Colorado Rockies and the rest of the NL West, I don't follow a ...

Apple collecting Safari extensions for gallery

by Dave Caolo (Jul 14th, 2010)

A marquee feature of Safari 5 is its ability to use 3rd-party extensions. Apple is collecting examples of great ones from registered developers to be featured in a gallery. There's no word on Apple's judging criteria or when the gallery will be launched, but Apple is really pushing this technology ...