Apple Grrl

While writing about Safari’s developer tools and the new Ecto 3 blog writing beta over on Mac.Blorge, I realized I have been making a list of things I’d like to see in Safari. Why bother making a list? Because I’d like Safari to be as good as FireFox for my daily browser needs, and it still falls short. It is beautiful and simple, but has no plugins or extra features to do things I’ve come to love in FireFox.

I’d love to see Foxy Tunes make a Safari compatible plugin. I adore Foxy Tunes for controlling iTunes in my browser, for looking up artist info on the fly and for the social aspects of meeting people who like the same music. It works in both Flock and FireFox, so why not Safari?

Tab Mix Plus. The session manager and session history are two features I can’t live without. I write for a living, often having up to 200 or more tabs open. In the event of a system crash or power outage, the Tab Mix Plus ability to remember all of these tabs and re-open them for me in the next session is a feature I simply can’t live without.

Stumble Upon Toolbar. The lack of a StumbleUpon toolbar in Safari kills me. How can I see the lovely surprises of Stumbled pages, or give neat pages some linky love without this? The answer is: I can’t.

There are other features and plugins I would love to see on Safari, like Shareaholic or the Alexa and Compete ranking bars, but those are my top three. Come on, third party develpers – get with it and make your stuff work with Safari!

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