Safari Resources
Tools for Safari: Full Screen / Maximize Window, Resize Window, Gmail link, Print link, Resize Window "button" for Safari, and more.
Full Screen: How can you make your Safari Browser window quickly "Maximize" to fill your full screen? Easy, just Drag and Drop the link below to your bookmarks bar OR bookmarks folder. Then click on it and the simple JavaScript will expand your browser to fill all available screen real estate*. (Feel free to edit the name of the bookmarklet):
NOTE: Safari 4.x users
With the introduction of Safari 4, this script may require a small work-around. If you already have window(s) open, clicking on the "Full Screen" link may not work. Here's a simple work-around until another solution is identified:
- After adding the bookmarklet, Open a New Window (⌘-N)
- Then click "Full Screen" and it should work
If you keep your browser at full size, it should continue to keep it that way until you manually resize it. The issue may have something to do with Safari saving window position as part of a Sessions' history. Because you'll notice that when you select "Reopen All Windows From Last Session", that it also restores window size and position. This work-around also applies to the Resize Window scripts below.
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Opera Browser
Resize Browser Window: Automatically resize your browser window to various standard screen resolutions in order to see how pages will appear (similar to many Firefox plugins). Drag these link to your bookmarks bar or put them in a 'browser sizes' folder:
Print "Button": Want a mouse-happy way to print the page you are looking at?
Drag this link to your bookmarks bar/folder (feel free to edit the name of the bookmark):
GmailThis!: "is an easy way to create a new Gmail message without first visiting mail.google.com. Once you add the GmailThis! link to your browser's toolbar, emailing will be a snap. Or rather, a click. Clicking GmailThis! creates a mini-interface to Gmail, pre-populated with a link to the web page you are currently viewing, as well as any text you have highlighted on that page. Add additional text if you wish and then email or save as draft from within GmailThis!" (Source: thanks to "From the Hall" blog for this cool link code):
digg this: "universal JavaScript Bookmarklet, which will automatically submit the URL of the page your browser is currently on, to Digg" (Source: thanks to "Skatter Tech" for this cool link code):
New Window "Button": Want a mouse-happy way to open a new browser window?
Drag this link to your bookmarks bar/folder (feel free to edit the name of the bookmark):
Mail to / Email Page "Button": This is a simple way to email a link to a friend and it even places the title of the current page into the subject field.*
NOTE: I've had this one up for a while, it's not really necessary now that Safari has two different mailing options available via the File menu. Drag this link to your bookmarks bar/folder (feel free to edit the name of the bookmark):
Apple Safari:
- Download Apple Safari 4 for Mac + PC
Other Software for Safari:
- Saft is a Safari plugin to add features like draggable tabs, TRUE full-screen browsing, searchable bookmarks and history, URL shortcuts, kiosk mode and more.
- Cinch gives you simple, mouse-driven window management by defining the left, right, and top edges of your screen as 'hot zones'. Drag to right or left for side-by-side (splitscreen), or Drag to top to make the window fill the entire screen (fullscreen).
- SafariStand is An InputManager plugin that adds various useful functionality, such as bookmark/history searching, thumbnail tab sidebar, view related cookies/css/images for a site.
- Glims adds a cocktail of features to Safari (Tabs, Thumbnails, Full Screen, Search Engines, Search Suggestions, Forms autocomplete on, Dated download folders, Type Ahead ...)
- Megazoomer makes windows full-screen. Just press Command-Enter, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire monitor. Press the same keys, and it shrinks again. Like Graffiti, you have to download SIMBL in order for it to work.
- Safari140 - post directly to Twitter from safari, it auto-fills and auto-shortens URLs
- 1Password is a Password Manager that uniquely brings you both Security and Convenience. It is the only program that provides Anti-Phishing protection and goes beyond password management by adding Web Form Filling and Automatic Strong Password Generation.
- Cooliris is a plugin that transforms your browser into "a lightning fast, cinematic way to enjoy photos and videos from the Web or your desktop."
- Videobox allows you to quickly and easily download Flash video from most all of the popular video sites on the internet. Videobox will convert the video into a native Quicktime format so it's ready to view on your Mac, iPod, iPhone or iTunes.
- Web Snapper lets you capture web pages - exactly as they appear in your browser. You can send them to a file, as images or vector-based, multi-page PDFs.
- Safari AdBlock blocks ads in Safari. It is free of charge and under the GPL license.
- SafariPlus is a plug-in for Safari that lets you manage cookies as well as block Flash and GIF animations.
- The Safari Microformats plugin notifies you when the author of the website has published Microformats and allows you to easily import hCards and hCalendars in Address Book and iCal.
- iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It's the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it's free. Now that both the iPhone and the iPod touch support web browsing, the user base who may be enjoying content optimized for the "mini Safari" experience will certainly grow. iPhoney is a great tool for basic testing if you don't happen to have hardware on hand.
- SafariSource is a SIMBL plugin that adds syntax coloring to Safari's source view.
- DeliciousSafari: Use and create del.icio.us bookmarks from the Safari web browser via a file-menu style interface
- Bookdog is the world's premier shepherd and guardian of your bookmarks for the world's premier operating system, Mac OS X. Bookdog can sort, organize, eliminate duplicates, automatically verify, migrate and synchronize bookmarks between Safari, Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb and Opera.
- URL Manager Pro offers you an array of powerful features for collecting, manipulating, and using large collections of URLs. Not just URLs of Web pages, but also the URLs of email addresses, newservers, FTP sites, Telnet hosts, and more.
- Safari Bookmark Exporter is designed to do one thing and do it well: export bookmarks from Safari. Browser support: Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb, Mozilla.
- TabExposé is a Safari add-on that enables you to view all open tabs in Safari the same way Exposé displays all open windows on your Desktop.
- The Red Snapper is a light-weight Safari plugin that lets you capture web pages and save them out as a graphic or a PDF. Because the Red Snapper captures the "whole" web page - leaving out "unnecessary" elements like the browser trim.
- Safari Tidy plugin: The Tidy plugin for Safari checks websites for (x)html compliance using, what else, Tidy.
- MappingService is a utility for working with mapping websites. Select text (e.g. an address) in an email, webpage or other document, then choose Map from the Services menu to display a map using one of the following sites: Google Maps; ZoomIn Australia; ZoomIn New Zealand
- Safarilicious parses your Safari bookmarks and allows to export them to your del.icio.us account. And even more, it has a nifty Update Option which, if activated, only exports those bookmarks which are not on your del.icio.us account yet.
- BM Safari Tabs 1.0 is a script that allows you to bookmark all of Safari's currently open tabs.
- Inquisitor - "It's like Spotlight for the web. Start typing and websites pop up immediately, along with ideas to refine your search. It'll auto-complete your words (is it reading your mind?) and you can add more search engines to Safari with customized keyboard shortcuts." (Now Free)
- PithHelmet is an extended site preferences and ad blocking plugin for Apple's Safari browser. The basic purpose of the plugin is to empower you the user to view the web as you like. You can block ad images, Flash, Shockwave or horrible midi loops - the world is your oyster.
- shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet that can be applied to your browser to hide comments on many popular web sites without user intervention.
- Videobox allows you to quickly and easily download Flash video from most all of the popular video sites on the internet. Videobox will convert the video into a native Quicktime format so it's ready to view on your Mac, iPod, iPhone or iTunes.
- delicious2safari imports your del.icio.us bookmarks to Safari.
- SafariBookmarkChecker allows you check the validity of your Safari Bookmarks, FAST !, ie it can check 1'000 bookmarks in less than 2 minutes on a 1GHz machine.
- Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages. It uses the WebKit framework, so captures will look like page views in Safari.
TIPS:
- Test your Websites for Safari on a PC - Use BrowsrCamp - Mac Screenshot Compatibility Test.
- Having issues with docx attachments in Gmail on Safari (pre-Leopard)? The solution is actually easy...
*Thanks to MacAddict, Macworld, and macosxhints for these cool tips!
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