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Should cookie consent forms be the bane of your existence, this extension can remove them from your life. Get StopTheMadness Mobile Super Agent for Safari (free) It’s the most expensive extension on this list – but also one of the best. Others are designed to let you do more, overriding blocks on drag and drop, text selection and pinch-zooming, forcing standard playback controls on all web video, and enabling you to determine where external links should open. Some are invisible: rerouting AMP pages blocking clickjacking removing tracking from clicked links.

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But it’s also packed full of settings designed to improve your browsing experience. This one wins the prize for the best Safari extension name. Get Svadilfari StopTheMadness Mobile ($7.99/£6.99) That said, we strongly recommend disabling the default Close Tab and Close All Tab gestures if you give this extension a try.

It can speed up browsing and hints at how Apple itself could better utilize gestures. The snag: because your entire display accepts gestures, Svadilfari’s tend to clash with standard swipes.Įven so, we enjoyed Svadilfari to the point we felt it needed including here. The idea behind Svadilfari is clever: you define gestures that trigger browser actions like opening the previous tab, copying a URL or running a script. And although it’s not pretty, StartPage.ai is effective – we found it the most useful of the start page replacements available on the App Store. The idea is for you to quickly declutter prior to adding to your open tab load. Trigger the extension on a web page with a video and said video will open in PiP mode, whereupon it can be moved around the screen or stashed at a screen edge.ĭo you nonchalantly open a new tab every time you use Safari, only to end the day with 50 of them begging for attention? If so, you need StartPage.ai, which replaces your start page with a list of recently used tabs. PiPifier has no truck with such shenanigans. YouTube, for example, ignores this system-level feature and stops any video when the app’s in the background, only allowing such things when you subscribe. Several video websites don’t behave as you’d expect with picture-in-picture.

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There are free alternatives, but Noir’s polish and features make it worth the outlay. Settings can be customized for individual sites, including the theme used and whether images are dimmed. It’s by default linked to your device’s dark mode, but can be turned on manually. So it’s not great when you end up searing your retinas with a web page’s bright background and imagery.

The idea behind ‘dark mode’ systems is to reduce eye strain when using your device in the dark. Get Amplosion Noir – Dark Mode for Safari ($2.99/£2.49) Everything is done on-device and never tracked, and there’s a tiny dog who lives in the main app, which also serves up stats.

When running, it silently and efficiently redirects AMP links to normal web pages. There are several AMP killers for Safari, but Amplosion is the best standalone option. It in theory makes websites faster, but really surrendered more control of the web to Google, didn’t benefit all the sites using it, and continues to obfuscate web links. Google AMP might not be long for this world, since it’s under fire for antitrust reasons.

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A couple of taps later, you’ll be on the way to browsing bliss – at least if you install the great extensions we outline below. (Note that it's an Xcode extension, not Safari.When you first turn on a Safari extension, it will ask for permission to access the current site and then to be allowed on all sites. So if the extension is not open source, you cannot see what's in the binaryĪ simple way to understand how the app and extension interact, see the following. Both of them are built in Xcode thus you only get the final executable. Since Safari 13, all extensions must be downloaded from the App Store as. I'm running 10.15.6 and these steps worked for me. Reinstallation, you can xar the folder back into a single file using xar -c -f output.safariextz extensionFolder. If you want to change something and then package it back up for To extract the extension’s files, use this command (replacing the '/path/to' with the correct path and the 'extension.safariextz' with the correct name) xar -xf /path/to/extension.safariextz The extension will be extracted into a folder, with the source and resources contained within. safariext file extension, but this is really just a xar file. Here you’ll see the Safari extensions you have installed. Note this is a hidden folder so in the finder use Command+ Shift+ G to put in this location ~/Library/Safari/Extensions. It should be living in your library folder.

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