Showing posts with label safari. Show all posts
Showing posts with label safari. Show all posts

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Glims Safari plugin

Adds more search sites and preview of top N search results.

Undo accidental close of a tab!

Restores Safari's state on reopen!

Allows separators in bookmarks, and right click to add a new folder to the bookmarks toolbars.

Very good so far!

Update 24 June: uninstalled cos it seemed to make Safari unstable. Hard time doing it - had to find / -iname *glims* and remove everything I found, rather than trust their uninstaller.

Update 21 Oct 2010: found one I missed, in Library/LaunchAgent. Perhaps it was causing all the glims-related error messages in the console (think they were saying glims couldn't be started - what was it doing trying to start glims when safari wasn't running. Very devious software).
Eventually found that even uninstalling AdBlock didn't stop Safari hanging up - so switched to Firefox and now there is a plugin for Keychain Integration.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Recovering Safari crash at startup

Found that Safari wasn't starting up after one of the annoying crashes I have had lately. Google turned up an article that proposed deleting a whole host of files. In the end I just had to delete com.apple.Safari.plist from ~/Library/Preferences/ and it came back to life. The file did look like it had non-ascii garbage at the front before it was deleted, but the fresh version didn't (though it had some at the end).

Had to reset home page, plus settings like opening up browser pages in a new tab, fill in usernames and passwords when known, in Safari->Preferences.