Safari Plugins

Because I make stuff for the web, I care a lot about my browsers. I use them all the time for what I do, and I tend to change my default browser just as often. In fact, only a few days ago have I switched from the Firefox beta to the WebKit beta (again).

Anyone coming from Firefox can tell you, however, that plugins, (especially an ad-blocker), are necessities if you ever plan on making the most of your web browser. Seeing as a lot of people either aren’t aware of many of the great Safari plugins out there, or haven’t yet discovered that such plugins exist in the first place, I thought I’d share with you four of my favourite Safari plugins that I wouldn’t be able to browse the web without.

Safari AdBlock

The web is a very noisy, flashy and annoying place without an ad blocker. This one should suit most people's ad-blocking needs perfectly, and blocks almost all advertisements.

SafariStand

SafariStand is like the Swiss Army Knife of Safari plugins. I’m not even close to knowing everything that SafariStand is capable of, but some of my favourite features (among others) are its options to automatically close the downloads window, to use “,” and “.” to switch between tabs, to kill gif animations, and to format-ize the source code view (command-option-u). Awesome? Very.

DeliciousSafari

Del.icio.us bookmarking. What else can I say? (Other than to recommend Chris Thomson’s glowing review of the plugin, that is.)

Inquisitor

Described as “Spotlight for the web”, Inquisitor extends Safari’s existing search box and adds nice, live and pretty search results and suggestions for your query.

Well, that’s it for my list of plugins — there are a lot more plugins listed at Pimp My Safari if you’re interested. Oh, and feel free to share any plugins I didn’t mention that you feel should have made it onto the list!