Comments on: SafariStand – A Cool Safari Plugin You Should Install

By: tom

tom — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:28:12 +0000

the newest safari browser version 4, beta 2? did not have the feature where you could browse webpages like Itunes browser, so I removed it from my system completely. if it had this feature, it would have been neat! but the twerps at Apple want to feed the public a bunch of bullshit about a new and innovative way of browsing the web. the newest version of Safari browser did NOT have this feature that the makers claimed it had! WHAT A BUNCH OF LIARS!

By: Jackson

Jackson — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:27:31 +0000

Sorry to hear that. I agree about Firefox’s startup time though

By: aesop

aesop — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:04:11 +0000

no ‘stand’ menu item. I don’t think I’ll bother writing though.I’m happy with firefox- and their plugins generally don’t involve all this futzing around. I agree it’s faster sometimes though, especially starting the app, which, with firefox makes one think one’s starting some behemoth like Photoshop or something, rather than a browser.

By: Mulder

Mulder — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:40:53 +0000

If Cover Flow works just fine in iTunes in Tiger, then the ability to implement History Flow in SafariStand for Tiger also exists. It would only make sense to implement History Flow in the Leopard version and not in Tiger if the developer were using a Leopard-only technology for History Flow. So far, Hetima has not replied to that question.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:33:51 +0000

When I first started using SafariStand, I also thought that it didn’t work. But it turns out that SafariStand only adds a menubar item called “Stand”. If that didn’t appear in your case, it could either be because there is a conflict between other plugins. Your best bet to make it work is by contacting the developer, email hetima at hetima dot com

By: aesop

aesop — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:15:30 +0000

I wasn’t able to make Safaristand work. I used the ‘L’ version, since I’m using OSX 10.5.6 and Safari 3.2.1.

I installed SIMBL from http://culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php and put the safaristand.bundle into the required plugins folder.

The first time I booted Safari it asked for my keychain. I was a little suspicious of this but thought, what the hey, and continued. (In any case I think I had updated my keychain password to something new since the last time I started up Safari). But not since installing either SIMBL or Safaristand.

Safaristand didn’t work, so I looked again and enabled admin privileges for the input managers folder using “sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/InputManagers”.

Still not getting anything. Anyone got any clueshat’s happened?

By: Jackson

Jackson — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:49:07 +0000

Hi Sandra,

Did installing SIMBL fix the problem?

By: Jackson Chung

Jackson Chung — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:25:16 +0000

You probably haven’t installed SIMBL yet. http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php

By: sandra johnson

sandra johnson — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:11:57 +0000

I tried to install the SafariStand plug in for Tiger on my Mac but got an error message that there was no application for it to open in. I’m sure I did something wrong, just don’t know what it was.

By: Jackson Chung

Jackson Chung — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:11:14 +0000

I honestly don’t know if it is Leopard only because the website was loosely translated into English from Japanese and there isn’t any documentation in English yet. But from what I see in the version history: History Flow was only implemented in the Leopard version in March. I assume that it’s because Tiger does not have Cover Flow view built-in.

In the article, I stated where History Flow can be found. And yes, History Flow is mentioned on their website.

By: Mulder

Mulder — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:28:29 +0000

The History Flow sounds like a nice feature, but I don’t see it listed anywhere within the SafarStand plugin, or even on their web site. Maybe it’s a feature that only works in 10.5? If so, you need to mention that, or clearly tell people where it should be located to activate or deactivate it.

By: Time Saving Software

Time Saving Software — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:47:11 +0000

Fabulous post… I’ll be installing this Safari add on right away so that I can share the productivity boost with others!

By: Jackson Chung

Jackson Chung — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:59:40 +0000

Coincidently, Plugsuit was developed infinitelabs, who also developed Afloat – I reviewed it a few articles back.

By: DontTazeMeBro

DontTazeMeBro — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:54:29 +0000

This is a great plug-in for Safari, and has come a long way from where it started.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:36:18 +0000

it’s a nice little add-on, but for serious research i use yojimbo which lets me archive links or full pages (as pdf etc) and so on- also, my *main* concern is the use of the input manager approach for this plugin which is no longer embraced by apple…this historically causes assorted issues and users would be well advised to read up on input manager problems

one workaround was presented this year with plugsuit:

infinite-labs.net/plugsuit/

…but be aware that even though this nice prefpane approach to managing installs sounds wonderful, users still experience issues…

i’d be curious to know how many of you are using safaristand with plugsuit instead of simbl – it supposedly cures the ‘problems with OS upgrades’ issue that plagues safaristand…