Canisbos's Safari Extensions

PopSearch 1.8.6 speeds up history feature

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:06:48 -0800

Not having used PopSearch’s history feature in many months, I hadn’t realized how much it slowed down typing in the query field when there are many history items. I’ve made it faster now.

Factotum 1.0.9 has site fixes

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:51:17 -0800

The new build fixes the broken layouts of Twitter and Wikipedia.

Download Factotum 1.0.9

PopSearch 1.8.5 reenables search history on Lion

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:35:17 -0800

When PopSearch was updated to use a popover in Safari 5.1, I had to disable the search history feature because there was a bug in Safari 5.1 that caused it to freeze solid when a popover was dynamically resized. Apple has fixed that bug, so I’ve reenabled search history.

LinkThing 2.0.22 fixes a pesky bug

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:02:22 -0800

Some time ago a bug crept in that caused link control to fail on a page if you navigated to a different page and then came back to the first page using the Back function. This build seems to fix that problem.

Download LinkThing 2.0.22 or let Safari update your copy.

Quickscript

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:18:55 -0800

My latest Safari extension provides a convenient way to save and automatically run arbitrary bits of JavaScript for any web page. (It’s only useful for pages you don’t control.) Quickscript is similar in purpose to the Firefox extension Greasemonkey, but is much simpler and less powerful—for example, it does not support userscripts.org. On the bright side, Quickscript makes it really quick and easy to add a script, and it includes a copy of jQuery so you can easily include it with your scripts.

Download Quickscript or read more about it.

Tabkeys 2.4.3 enhances "close last tab" option

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:20:57 -0800

Tabkeys has an option to prevent closing the Safari window when you close its last tab using the tab-closing hotkey; this is accomplished by setting the last tab’s URL to “about:blank” rather than actually closing it. Now, you can specify any other URL to load in the last tab when you “close” it.

Download Tabkeys 2.4.3 or let Safari update your copy.

NoPageCache

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:34:00 -0800

This extension disables Safari’s “page cache” feature, which causes problems for many extensions. If you’ve noticed some of your extensions’ features not working after you use the Back button, NoPageCache can help.

Download NoPageCache or read a little more about it

Moofmarks 1.6.10 works around Pinboard rate limit

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:20:51 -0800

This build works around the new Pinboard rate limit for fetching bookmarks. If less than five minutes have elapsed since the last time Moofmarks downloaded your bookmarks, it won’t update them immediately but will set a timer to update them five minutes after the last download.

Download Moofmarks 1.6.10 or let Safari update your copy.

Moofmarks Pinboard access problem

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:48:00 -0800

Seems that Pinboard recently started limiting, or limiting more aggressively, how often you can fetch bookmarks through their API. The new limit is once every five minutes. So now, if you add, remove, or edit a bookmark and open Moofmarks, and then you do it again within five minutes, Moofmarks will not be able to fetch your bookmarks after the second change, and it will show this error message:

Moofmarks could not access your Pinboard account. Either the login info is incorrect, or there is a problem with the service.

I’ll need to rework how Moofmarks communicates with the Pinboard API to work around this new limitation. I’ll release an update soonish.

Moofmarks 1.6.8 adds initial setup page

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:03:58 -0800

This latest version of Moofmarks has nothing new for existing users, but new users may now be less puzzled on first use, as Moofmarks now prompts them to select a bookmarking service before doing anything else.

Moofmarks 1.6.6 fixes bug in 1.6.5 bugfix

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:09:18 -0800

No further comment.

Moofmarks 1.6.5 fixes an add-bookmark bug, hopefully

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:53:48 -0800

There was a bug in Moofmarks that could cause adding bookmarks to fail. This update should fix that problem, but please check your Moofmarks settings to make sure the services you’ve selected to save bookmarks to are what you want after the update.

Moofmarks 1.6.4 fixes a bad bug

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:30:11 -0800

Under some unidentified circumstances, the popover version of the Moofmarks dialog (enabled under Safari 5.1) would appear empty, and no amount of restarting Safari or reinstalling the extension would fix the problem. This update prevents that from happening, I think.

Download Moofmarks 1.6.4 or let Safari update your copy.

Moofmarks 1.6.3 fixes a layout bug

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:16:38 -0700

This update fixes a bug where if a bookmark’s name, description, and tags were too long to fit on one line, its URL would be hidden.

Moofmarks 1.6.2 adds mouseover selection

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:37:00 -0700

I really should have implemented this a long time ago, but I was too lazy. Anyway, Moofmarks now highlights bookmarks as you move the mouse over them, and you can click anywhere on a bookmark row to open the bookmark.

Safari 5.1 users note: If you’re using the popover version of the Moofmarks dialog, mouseover highlighting won’t for you until you update to Safari 5.1.2, which will be released soon.

Moofmarks 1.6 implements own add-bookmark dialog

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:10:00 -0700

When you click the Add Bookmark button, Moofmarks now displays its own dialog instead of simply opening a popup window for your bookmarking service’s standard add-bookmark form. The reason I implemented this is because, personally, I tend to add the same bookmarks to Pinboard, Delicious, and Google Bookmarks, all at the same time—and it’s a bit of a hassle to open and fill out each service’s add-bookmark form. Now, I can add a bookmark to all three services by filling out just one form. You can select which bookmarking services to save bookmarks to on Moofmarks’s settings page.

Oh, and this update also (hopefully) fixes a rather severe bug that affected a few users, where the in-page version of the bookmark dialog would sometimes appear partially off-window.

Download Moofmarks 1.6 or let Safari update your copy.

LinkThing 2.0.18: Yet another bug fix

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:56:10 -0700

Aren’t you getting tired of these stupid little bug fix releases? I know I am. Yet the bugs keep coming, so what can I do?

This one fixes not really a bug but a stupid decision I made earlier to ignore named targets when deciding the fate of links. This was stupid, because a common use of named targets is to make links in one frame of a frameset open in another frame. By ignoring the named target, LinkThing could force the link to open in another tab or, worse, in the same frame. LinkThing now respects named targets and does not mess with links that have them.

PopSearch 1.8.3 quashes a major bug

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:20:41 -0700

At some point in the last few updates to PopSearch, a bug crept in that caused the search dialog to appear partially off-window sometimes for some users. I still don’t know why that happened, because I’ve never been able to duplicate the problem. That hasn’t stopped me from finding a way to make the bug go away, and now I present to you the fruit of my (slight) labors.

Download PopSearch 1.8.3 or let Safari update your copy.

LinkThing 2.0.16: a tiny enhancement

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:03:45 -0700

Yesterday, while downloading some files from DeviantArt, I noticed that each download would open a new, blank tab, which (in Safari) would not go away when the download had been initiated. I realized that this was happening because DeviantArt adds a target="_blank" attribute to their download links.

I assume they have a reason for doing this, and they are not the only site doing it. Nevertheless, it’s annoying. So I decided to add some code to LinkThing to detect when a link is a download and if so to remove any target attribute it may have, so that the link will not open a new tab. I hope it works well enough to be worthwhile.

NatKeyScroll 1.0.1 is a tiny bug fix

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:48:47 -0700

There was a bug in NatKeyScroll that caused it to use a tiny bit more CPU time than necessary. (I forgot to use clearInterval after a setInterval.) No big deal.