Supersizing Safari
Today's entry at 5thirtyone.org outlines and reviews some of the better extensions available for Apple's Safari browser.
Personally, I feel that Safari is unfairly maligned by users of Firefox, even though Safari is the superior browser on paper. Safari is speedy and standards-compliant. Launch times and page rendering times are super-fast. Run it on one of the new Intel machines and it totally cooks. Also, the application wrapper doesn't take up as much desktop real estate, so you get more page and less menu/toolbar cruft.
However, Safari can't beat the extensibility or compatibility of Firefox, the incredibly light weight of Camino, or the built-in sharing features of Opera, Shiira and Flock.
At any rate, the article at 5thirtyone gives you a good overview of what you can do with Safari if you're willing to trick it out a little bit. Some of you might scoff at the idea of paying for extensions as they suggest, but if an extension or plug-in is useful and compliments your browsing experience in a positive, unique way, then why wouldn't the developers deserve your support?
Personally, I'd love to find a Safari extension that improves the way it handles RSS feeds. I'm pretty much married to Firefox's Live Bookmarks at this point. I'll add a more robust syndication feature set — or even a built-in feed reader — to my wishlist for the next Safari release.
A side note: What did you do to celebrate World Firefox Day?
