The macosxhints Rating:
[Score: 8 out of 10]
- Developer: Hetima Computer / Product Page
- Price: Free
- Separators (both lines and labels) in the Bookmarks menu, as seen in this screenshot.
- Add a sidebar showing icon views of presently-opened sites, ala OmniWeb.
- Add a New Tab button to the Bookmarks bar.
- Display a floating window with bookmarks, history, and even a page viewer and RSS reader.
- Use a 'shelf' to store collections of tabs in an easy-to-access manner. This is tricky to describe, but basically, you open a bunch of sites in tabs, then use the 'Create Shelf from Current Workspace' menu item to put those tabs into a shelf entry. From now on, you can open all those sites via the shelf. This is a great way to temporarily store visited sites, and to re-open them in tabs in a hurry.
- Use keywords in the URL bar to do quick searches -- typing mu screenshot into the URL area, for instance, will search MacUpdate for entries that match "screenshot." You can add your own search shortcuts as well.
- Let ordinary keystrokes do useful things. If you're not in the URL bar or the search field, Safari ignores your typing. SafariStand lets you assign a few useful keys to often-used tasks: the +, - and = keys on the 10-key, for instance, can be used to increase, decrease, and reset the text size and/or image scaling for a web page. And (very useful), you can use , and . to select the previous or next tab.
- Supports 'site alteration,' which is a way of customizing what happens when you visit certain sites. For instance, for cnn.com, you can disable plug-ins, meaning those annoying flash ads won't be displayed. In addition, you have control over images, JavaScript, pop-up windows, Java, page encoding, default and minimum font sizes, and user agent. You can even specify your own style sheet to be used, on a site by site basis.
- Auto-close the Safari Downloads window automatically, after a user-settable period of time. Hooray! I hate the fact that that window opens every time I start a download!
- Colorize HTML in the View Source mode.
So far, I haven't had any crashes or other issues, but note that this is (a) technically beta software, and (b) something that extensively modifies Safari's behavior. As with most things in this category, having a current backup is a Very Good Idea.

