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A First Overview and Roundup of Safari Extensions

One of the most important features of Safari 5 is support for extensions: it’s what Safari users had been wanting for a very long time, and it’s a big deal. It’s a big deal for users who want to customize their browser the way they want, it’s a huge deal for developers who may start to charge for full-featured extensions in the future. Just think about Twitter clients or RSS apps living inside the browser.

Safari 5 has been available for 12 hours now, and some developers have already released their first extensions. Obviously these extensions are far from being “complete” and “full-featured”, but still it’s worth taking a look at them, as they’re giving us a glimpse at what devs might offer in a few weeks.

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Thoughts on Safari 5

Apple has rolled out Safari 5 and I have to say, it feels faster indeed. A lot of work has been put into making Javascript faster, and you can see the difference from Safari 4. Loading a rich web application such as Zootool takes a few seconds less than before, which is a great thing.

I haven’t noticed that 3% difference from Google Chrome, but thing is - Safari feels snappier overall, it’s not just about the Javascript engine. And it’s native. Tabs behave just like you’re used to, close buttons are there in the right place, inline dictionary is what is meant to be. If Chrome could have convinced many users like me to switch because of extensions (I did), I am proud to come back to Safari now that it’s got extensions as well. And they’re based on web standards, which once again proves how much Apple cares about promoting them, and not just about building a “walled garden”.

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Apple Releases Safari 5

Safari 5 is going live. The new (and somehow unexpected after no mention at the keynote) Safari update features an improved Javascript engine (30% faster), a Reader button in the Address Bar and improved HTML5 support.

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New “Highly Critical” Vulnerability Discovered in Safari

Secunia has discovered a new vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser, which can be used to compromise a user’s system. The security hole is confirmed in Safari 4.0.5 for Windows and “other versions may also be affected”.

“The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of parent windows and can result in a function call using an invalid pointer. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code when a user e.g. visits a specially crafted web page and closes opened pop-up windows.”

Security update coming for Safari, perhaps for a 4.1 version? And could this 4.1 version the one with “full HTML5 support”? We’ll keep you posted.

How Glims and Keyboardr Changed My Workflow

If you work 24/7 at your computer, it’s very likely that every solution to save time and be more productive is welcome. It could be a new to-do list manager, a new Google service or a new mail client: we’re always searching for the new kid on the block which will save us precious time.

Today, I’d like to talk about how Glims (a Safari plugin) and keyboardr (a website) recently changed my workflow.

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Tweet from Safari with Thurly. Reviewed.

If you recently switched from Firefox to Safari, you’ve probably noticed the lack of browser addons. While there are thousands of addons / extensions / whatever for Mozilla Firefox, there’s no doubt that Safari is not a very customizable browser. But anyway, there are a few developers who have developed excellent plugins (that’s how they are called in Safari) you should definitely check out.

Today, I would like to talk about Thurly.

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