SafariStand - Add many useful features to Safari

Jan 04, '06 07:42:00AM

Contributed by: robg

SafariStand imageThe macosxhints Rating:
8 of 10
[Score: 8 out of 10]

This week's pick is a bit odd in that ... I'm not even sure I can tell you everything it does. The developer is Japanese, and the product is "mostly" translated into English. What that means is that the documentation is somewhat sparse, and some features may be hard to understand. With that said, however, SafariStand is an amazingly useful plug-in. SafariStand adds a Stand menu to Safari, and through that, you have access to a ton of interesting features, including: There's more, but those are the main things I found interesting. As noted, the interface and documentation can be a bit daunting, but I found it well worth the learning curve. I especially appreciate the control over individual sites. My bank's site, for instance, requires pop-up windows to be active, so I had been manually enabling and disabling the pop-up blocker in Safari. Now I have a custom setting for their page that allows the pop-ups. Very nice.

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.

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