I do not recommend installing any Safari plugins
by Colin Devroe on November 17th, 2006
There are quite a few handy Safari plugins out there. Most of them try to help make up for what Safari lacks, and normally I’d be all for trying to get the most out of your software.
Not in this case.
I’ve tried a few Safari plugins over the years and most of them, if not all of them, have ended up making Safari not perform properly in various situations.
I’ve had plugins not load sites because of an installed plugin. I’ve had the user-agent for the browser inexplicably change to something else. I’m also hearing of other’s having upload problems when they have a plugin installed.
I think you will find that almost every plugin for Safari will somehow “break” your install. Perhaps not in anyway that you care about, or that you may even notice – but overall Safari plugins really do not perform well and are unstable.
As such – I can not recommend installing any Safari plugins. I know some of you will disagree, and that is ok with me, we can all agree to disagree on this particular issue.
[tags]safari, plugin, plugin, apple, macintosh, browser[/tags]
[slug]no-safari-plugins[/slug]
Hah! I remember the error on TUG.
I haven’t had any problems with Saft, though I’m sure there are some i just haven’t found. I’m surprised i’ve only been using firefox for the past few days, no probs with it so far.
I have been trying to get a list of safe plugins. When I go to help->list plugins,I get back a list of 50 or so plugins. How do I know if I have an unsafe plugin? Is there some kind of plugin registry out on the net that shows which plugins are apple recommended?
Thank you