Apple's
Safari 5 internet browser enables customization through the installation of extensions. Through these extensions, you can change the way web content looks, or add new capabilities to Safari to make browsing suit your preferences.
Anytime now, Apple is coming out with a
Safari Extensions Gallery from which you can download said extensions (presumably for free). However, to tide us over until Apple comes out with the Gallery, tons of extensions may already be downloaded from
this blog.
I love many of the extensions available from the site; I never thought I needed certain browsing capabilities until I installed these extensions in my Safari 5. Here are some of my favorites:
1.
Facebook Share - adds a Facebook button to the toolbar, enabling sharing of any web page to your Facebook friends
2.
FBPhotoZoom - another Facebook-related extension. Enables you to zoom into each photo in a photo album just by hovering the cursor over the thumbnail. No more individual clicking of each photo!
3.
Lucidica Reader - Google Reader can be quite a cluttered mess. This extension cleans up the layout to make reading all those blog updates less stressful.
4.
No More iTunes - disables the script that tries to start iTunes when you visit a link to the iTunes Store
5.
Google Lightboxer - creates a Lightbox slideshow on Google Images which loads then full resolution images. Meaning, you don't have to click on each image result one by one just to see how it looks like in full. Very useful!
6.
Tabs - automatically saves all the open tabs prior to closing Safari, and can reopen said tabs when you restart the browser. Very useful when you need to quit Safari or when it accidentally crashes
