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Safari Extender adds functionality to Safari in the form of a contextual menu item. With Safari Extender you can do things Safari never allowed you to do before, such as Save a complete Set of Tabs, Load a Set of Tabs, Cut and Paste a Tab, even paste it to a different window! You can easily get back to your optimal setup by loading a Tab Set. Or you can re-arrange your Tabs by making a Tab be the first one, or make it the last one. You can also compose an email with the current web address in your browser. An auto-save feature saves your currently opened tabs every 4 seconds. If Safari crashes you can easily get back to the state where you had been working before.
Rated (Very Good)  MacWorld Magazine, June 2004 Issue
Note: (not yet compatible with 10.5)
Another option is to temporarily turn Images OFF, which helps when you have a lot of browsing to do in a short time. After you found what you need you can then turn graphics back ON easily. You can also access 5 back and forward locations from the menu or set the User Agent which helps with banking sites.
A highly requested option is to print the page with the current Title, Web Address and time stamp. Safari Extender does this for you! (Please note that the first print request without a window always fails)
Other convenient functions in the contextual menu allow you to quickly go back or forward in a page, reload the page and increase or reduce the text size, set the policy for Cookies and close a window. You can also search for text you have selected using Google, Yahoo, MSN or Wikipedia in a new tab. That way you keep the original page intact. Expect more features in the future. Your suggestions are always welcome!
To open the "contextual menu" in Safari, hold down the control key while you click the mouse in a web page. Note that if you just installed Safari Extender you may need to quit and re-run Safari before the Safari Extender menu shows up.
Safari Extender is Shareware, it costs 10 U.S. dollars after a 15 day trial period.
Some of the features in the Safari Extender Contextual Menu
- Make Tab the First Tab
- Make Tab the Last Tab
- Cut Tab
- Paste Tab
- Duplicate Tab
- Save Tab Set...
- Load Tab Set
- Delete Tab Set
- Go Back
- Go Forward
- Print Page with Title-URL-Date
- Print Page with Title-URL-Date Showing the Print Dialog
- New Tab
- Search in Google in a new tab
- Search in Yahoo in a new tab
- Search in MSN in a new tab
- Search in Wikipedia in a new tab
- Open Wikipedia term in a new tab (if available)
- Open in Google Maps
- Open in Yahoo Maps
- Search in eBay
- Go Shopping
- Close Window
- Mail Web Page Address
- Mail Selected Text
- Mail Selected Text With Address
- Mail Current Tabs
- Copy Web Address
- Copy Web Address And Title
- Copy Web Address, Selection and Title
- Copy Selection and Title
- Copy Selection and Web Address
- Cookie options
- Bigger Text
- Smaller Text
- Reload Page
- Images ON
- Images OFF
- Go Back To...
- Go Forward To...
- Set User Agent
- Auto Save the current tab set
- Check for New Version
- Always free upgrades to new versions!
Software requirements
- Mac OS X 10.3 or above, PowerPC and Intel compatible
Installation
Download the file "Extender.sit" and after the file is uncompressed you will see a disk with an installer application called "Install Safari Extender". Double click the installer. The installer will install Safari Extender in the Contextual Menu Items folder. You may need to quit and run Safari again in order for Safari Extender to show in the contextual menu (control click on a web page in Safari).
Purchasing
Safari Extender is Shareware, you can try it for 15 days before you need to purchase it. It costs $ 10 U.S. Dollars. Safari Extender has to be activated on your computer, if you need to run it on a second computer send us an email along with your order number.
You can purchase it securely with eSellerate by using the "Purchase" menu in the Safari Extender contextual menu.
Using Safari Extender
Many of the functions that Safari Extender provides to you depend on the "context", or the current state of your window. For example, you can only "cut" a Tab if you have more than one tab, a window without any tabs does not look pretty. You cannot "Go Back" to somewhere where you have not been before. So keep in mind that the commands you may see on the menu vary, depending on what may be relevant at the moment. While some of the options in Safari Extender are built into Safari, some users find it easier to select an option from a context menu than moving the mouse to the top of a window to click on a button or menu, depending on your screen size and computer setup this may or may not be important to you.
If you have not done so already, enable "Tabbed browsing" in the Preferences of Safari.
Below is a brief explanation of some of the menu options available to you from Safari Extender, first the top level:
Go Back - Available if there is a history for that Tab, it takes you back to the previous location.
Go Forward - Available if there is a history for that Tab, and you have used the back button.
Mail - Holds sub commands related to email.
Tabs - Holds sub comments related to dealing with Tabs.
User Agent - Holds sub commands that can be used to change the identity of your browser. Some web sites demand that you visit them with a certain browser or even a version of a browser because they only tested their site with that browser. This option allows you to masquerade your browser as Internet Explorer running on Windows, Netscape and so on. You will find this useful at sites such as banking, stock trading and so on.
Back To - Available if there is a history, can have up to 5 recent locations from your back history.
Forward To - Available if there is a history, can have up to 5 recent locations from your forward history.
Safari Extender submenu, general commands:
Search in a new Tab submenu:
Go Shopping - opens a new tab where you can shop in a smart way, feature under development. Coming soon!
In Google - opens a new tab, and searches for the selected text in Google, text must be selected for this option to appear.
In Google With Exact Match - Uses an exact search, not just a search for all words selected.
In Yahoo - opens a new tab, and searches for the selected text in Yahoo, text must be selected for this option to appear.
In Yahoo With Exact Match - Uses an exact search, not just a search for all words selected.
In MSN - opens a new tab, and searches for the selected text in MSN, text must be selected for this option to appear.
In MSN With Exact Match - Uses an exact search, not just a search for all words selected.
In Wikipedia - opens a new tab, and searches for the selected text in Wikipedia, text must be selected for this option to appear.
In Wikipedia With Exact Match - Uses an exact search, not just a search for all words selected.
In eBay - searches eBay for the text selected
In eBay With Exact Match - As above but matches all words.
Map This Address With Yahoo - Uses the selected text to search the address in Yahoo maps.
Map This Address With Google - As above but uses Google maps.
Open Wikipedia page (if available) - opens a new tab, and attempts to open a direct page in Wikipedia that gives a reference to the text selected. Note that the page may not exist, in which case you should try searching for it using the previous option.
Close Window - Closes the current window, with all the current tabs you may have.
Bigger Text - Makes the text on the page bigger.
Smaller Text - Makes the text on the page smaller.
Reload Page - Reloads the current page.
Images Off - Disables the loading of images, this is useful when you are in a hurry looking for something and don't have the time to wait for all kinds of graphics to load.
Images On - If you had images temporarily off, you can turn them back on once you found what you wanted, and the page is reloaded to get all graphics back.
Print With Title-URL-Date - This option creates a hidden window with a modified document that includes the current location, the date and the document title. The hidden window is then printed once using the default printer.
Print With Title-URL-Date Showing Print Dialog - This option is similar to the previous one, but the window is shown so that you can select a particular printer, set the number of copies to print and so on. Wait until the window is fully drawn before you click the print button.
Allow Cookies - This option tells you browser to accept cookies from any sites that attempt set them.
Prevent Cookies - This option tells your browser to reject cookies.
Check For New Version - This option checks on the batista.org web site to see if there is a newer version of the software.
About Safari Extender - This option shows you the current version number of Safari Extender.
Copy submenu:
Web Address - Copies the web location to the clipboard
Web Address and Title - Copies the web location and Title of the page to the clipboard
Selection and Web Address - Copies the selected text and web location to the clipboard
Selection and Title - Copies the selected text and title to the clipboard
Selection, Title and Web Address - Copies the web location, selected text and title to the clipboard
Mail submenu:
Mail Web Address - Composes an email that contains the location of the current window.
Mail Selected Text - Composes an email that includes text you have selected in the current window.
Mail Selected Text and Web Address - Same as above, but also includes the address of the location.
Mail Current Tab Locations - Composes an email that includes the locations of all of your tabs of the current window.
Tabs submenu:
Make Tab The Last Tab - When you have more than one tab, and the current tab is not the last tab you can use this to move the tab to the end. This way you can re-organize your tabs. I tend to have junk tabs last and important, permanent things first.
Make Tab The First Tab - Similar as above, but used to make a tab the first tab.
Insert Tab - Inserts a new empty tab at the current tab location, shifting some tabs to the right depending on your position.
New Tab - Creates a new, empty tab.
Reload All Tabs - Forces all tabs to reload, so that you don't have to reload each one manually.
Cut Tab - Removes the tab from the window, but saves it in memory. You can then go to another tab or even another window and then "paste" the tab back. Cool way to re-organize your tabs.
Paste Tab - Once you have "cut" a tab, use this menu to paste it back, it actually inserts the tab before the current tab.
Duplicate Tab - Creates a new tab, and loads the same location in it as what you had before. This is so that you don't loose track of a place.
Save Tab Set... - This option takes all the tabs you have, and remembers all the locations in your preferences. You are asked to name the tab "Set". A set is composed of all the current tab locations. For example, you can have a tab set with all the news sites, or shareware sites, or favorite stores. Tab sets are like macro-bookmarks where you can save and load many locations at the same time.
Load Tab Set - This option loads a set, a submenu shows you the current sets you have saved by name and when you choose one tabs are created and the locations stored in the set loaded in all the tabs.
Delete Tab Set - Removes a tab set from your preferences, once you no longer have use for a tab set you can delete it this way.
Export Tab Sets - Allows you to save all of your tab sets into a text file so that they can be recovered in case of a system restore or crash.
Auto Save Tab Set - Keeps track of the current tabs into a tab set that gets saved automatically every 4 seconds. See the ReadMe file for details.
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