Network & Internet > Browser Tools

Description: Shiira is a web browser based on WebKit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. All source code used in this software is publicly available.What's new in this version:Updated the PageDock appearance.

Keywords: browser create source code 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 8192 kb; Updated: 2008-02-18

Description: Flock is actually built on the Firefox core, but aside from a familiar menu structure the similarities end there. Exhibiting their mantra of building a better tool for the web, Flock has social bookmarking, blogging and even Flickr tools built right in. The first time you star (bookmark) a site, Flock asks if you’d like to enter your del.icio.us account information, in which case it will integrate with your del.icio.us bookmarks for any sites you star and tag from here on out.Important: If you have an earlier version of Flock, your must throw away your Flock profile folder.What's new in this version:Incorporation of Mozilla's patch 2.0.0.12 for Firefox.Fixed the favicon for TypePad accounts in the Blog Editor.Updated copyright to 2008 for splash screen and about pages.Updated version of Flash bundled with Windows installer to latest from Adobe, 9.0 r118.

Keywords: information bookmark windows editor screen folder tools flash 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 20787 kb; Updated: 2008-02-15

Description: Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page data, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious junk.

Keywords: advanced privacy access proxy data page 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 621 kb; Updated: 2008-02-10

Description: Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application. The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite". Whereas the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have "everything but the kitchen sink" — and have it stable enough for corporate use.What's new in this version:Security and stability fixes.

Keywords: application security internet advanced browser e-mail client mail 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 22835 kb; Updated: 2008-02-08

Description: Safari AdBlock blocks ads in Safari.It is free of charge and under the GPL license.Safari AdBlock is easy to use: it just works out of the box!What's new in this version:Major speed improvements, thanks to John's amazing work in RegexKitBugfixes

Keywords: amazing free easy 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 466 kb; Updated: 2008-02-03

Description: When you download things in Safari, DownloadComment will put the original URL into the saved file's Finder Comments. Now you'll always know where your downloads came from. The Comments field can be accessed in the Finder by choosing to "Get Info" on a file. This functionality was part of Internet Explorer on OS 9 but is missing from Safari. DownloadComment brings it back. DownloadComment is free! Enjoy.It's fully compatible with OS X 10.4 and saves the file's URL as a Spotlight Comment.What's new in this version:Support for Safari 3.0 (Final) and OS X 10.5.

Keywords: downloads internet download explorer free file into 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 118 kb; Updated: 2007-12-24

Description: ForgetMeNot is a Safari plug-in which remembers the tabs and windows you have opened when you quit Safari, and reloads those same windows and tabs when you restart Safari.It also adds an "Unclose Window" command to Safari's file menu: if you close a Safari window accidentally, you can click "Unclose Window" to bring that window back.What's new in this version:Added support for Safari 3; dropped support for previous versions of Safari.

Keywords: windows window file 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 595 kb; Updated: 2007-11-22

Description: iPlace is a small contextual menu plug-in for Safari. It is designed to help you browse images in web pages and to manage your image downloads. iPlace allows you to specify a set of locations to which you can save images and then allows you to either save single images or to browse all of the images in a page without seeing any of the text in between. In this way you can easily select and save multiple images at once.What's new in this version:Compatibility with Safari 3.0.4.Support for playing animated gif images has been added to the image browser.Double clicking on a location drop box in the image browser opens that location in the Finder.

Keywords: downloads animated browser browse images image text save 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 267 kb; Updated: 2007-11-21

Description: A Cocoa application for managing del.icio.us accounts.

Keywords: application 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 385 kb; Updated: 2007-05-28

Description: TabStop is a SIMBL plugin, available in several different languages, that displays a warning when you attempt to quit or close a window in Safari that contains multiple tabs. Very handy, if you're used to keeping dozens of tabs around and you're tired of accidentally Command-Q'ing instead of Command-W'ing.

Keywords: window plugin 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 144 kb; Updated: 2007-05-23