“Extensions are a fantastic way to bring new features to Safari and enhance your web browser,” Derek Erwin writes for Intego.
“You can customize your browsing experience by adding new extensions, many of which can help you stay productive this school year,” Erwin writes. “Here are our top 10 favorite Safari extensions to boost efficiency and online productivity.”
Safari Extensions allow developers to enhance and customize the browsing experience.
10 cool Safari extensions to supercharge your productivity:
1. Evernote Web Clipper
2. Horsey
3. Punchtime for Trello
4. Instapaper
5. Momentum
6. Website Opener
7. KeyStroke
8. PanicButton
9. Feedly
10. Harakirimail
Description of and links for each extension in the full article here.
Don’t forget POCKET. That’s my favorite for saving web clippings/sites for later reading.
Staying Alive
– ‘Staying Alive’ is for Chromium derivatives.
– ‘Session Keep Alive’ is an equivalent for Firefox.
– I’m unaware of anything similar for Safari. That may be deliberate on Apple’s part as the purpose isn’t exactly the greatest idea.
ClickToFlash is a Must!
Actually, expunging Flash entirely from your system is a Must.
and AdBlock to get rid of those annoying google ads 🙂
Specifically, the original, simply named ‘Ad Block’ by Michael Gundlach. Well worth donating to the cause.
The ‘Ad Block Plus’ thing has always had a shady reputation. First there was the ripoff name. Then there are the persistent stories of them, ahem, taking money to allow certain paying advertisers to make it through their blocking wall. I’ve never seen a satisfactory response from them regarding this allegation. It’s also clunkier to use than simple Ad Block.
Seriously – did we forget about 1Password?
Actually, it is my most used extension. I use it so much, I forgot it was an extension. It just seems like it has always been a part of Safari for me.
1 Password
Click to Plugin
Disconnect
Videobox
JS Blocker 5 (despite the learning curve)
DuckDuckGo
igTranslator For Google
ClickToFlash (if you aren’t yet Flash-free)
DictionarySearch
Dictionary
Ultimate Status Bar (rainbows and unicorns!)
SCD (Soundcloud downloader)
Dr. Web Link Checker
uBlock
WOT (Web of Trust. Some problems, but overall useful).
ScamZapper (Apple has blocked one JS scam, but not all)
Ka-Block!
DisableGoogleRedirect
MyPermissionsCleaner
Incognito
*grumble* Momentum’s developer page ONLY points out the Chrome version. That looks like a bribe from Google to me. – Just my opinion!
Gee, MDN. Thanks for the link to the AD. What happens if I click on the button to dismiss it?
How about having articles that do not require the dismissal of an alert to read?
(Check out the article on MacKeeper. They do the same thing. Time to drink your own kool-aid.)