20 Excellent Plugins for Safari

6. SafariStand

SafariStand is a useful little plugin that adds a thumbnail sidebar and a bookmarks shelf.

The shelf lets you easily save your browsing sessions and then resume them at the click of a button.

Other features include site alteration (e.g. modify the minimum font size on a particular site, use a custom style sheet or a different user agent) and an Action Menu, which allows you to easily browse the various assets that a site has, such as Javascript, CSS and cookies. Plugin website

7. Saft

Saft is like a Swiss Army Knife. It does so many things that it would take too long to list them all here. Here’s a link to the full list of features.

Some notable ones include: ad blocking, always open new windows in tabs, block animations, undo support for closing tabs, sidebar, Growl support, Kiosk mode and full screen browsing. Plugin website

8. Cooliris

Cooliris is a great plugin for viewing image and video galleries, such as those on Google image search, Facebook, YouTube or Flickr.

At the click of a button the gallery on a web page turns into a full screen view where you can see all the photos and videos as well as zoom and pan around using the Cooliris interface.

It features a beautiful interface with smooth animations and transitions that delivers a very satisfying browsing experience. Plugin website

9. Inquisitor

Inquisitor is a great plugin to enhance the Google search field.

It runs the search live as you type it and brings in the results in a little window that pops up below the search. It can list results and search suggestions and you can customize how many of each you want to see.

It’s a very high quality plugin, so much so that Yahoo has recently purchased it and is working on versions for Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Note: the Yahoo purchase also means that the search engine powering Inquisitor has now been changed from Google to Yahoo, so this is something to consider before you install the plugin. Plugin website

10. Safari140

Find something interesting on the Web that you just have to share on Twitter? The Safari140 plugin makes this easy.

It allows you to write Twitter messages from an integrated menu in Safari, and will even pre-fill and shorten the URL address of the current site you’re browsing. Plugin website