Comparing safari vs chrome/firefox in the extension world is a lost war. According to some data from 2022, its 120k/80k vs 3k in safari.
I am actively developing extensions, and I think a lot of devs will benefit from knowing which are ideas that could benefit the users more.
Given this, what is the extension that you miss on safari?
You are looking at a visual glitch in Safari where in Compact Tab mode, when a bunch of tabs are open, you get a horizontally scrollable toolbar. When scrolling these many tabs, they overlap each other and when overlapping there is a slight border around them, just to make it a bit more visible that the tabs are separate. In any version of Safari above 18.6 this and many other bugs are present.
Many years ago I made a post about usability regression in Safari tabs in r/MacOSBeta and that one got quickly rectified, so there is some hope that someone from Apple is watching.
Backstory: I used to be able to go to bugreport.apple.com and report all sorts of bugs to Apple (even for previous OS versions) and get engineers or designers to respond and even fix the actual issues. Ever since this portal has been sunset, I have not gotten a single response from anyone on Feedback Assistant and basically gave up.
ok so background — i've been a safari user for years but every time i needed to grab data off a webpage i'd have to open chrome, use instant data scraper, do the thing, close chrome. annoying.
couldn't find anything on the safari side that actually worked so i just built one. it auto-detects the biggest repeating block on the page (tables, product cards, news feeds, whatever) highlights it, and you hit export to get a csv. that's it. no account, no settings, no BS.
tested it on wikipedia tables, hacker news, amazon search, github trending — all good.
mac only for now since it's a safari web extension. v1 is just auto-detect + csv. infinite scroll + next page detection is what i'm working on next, that's the big one i know everyone wants.
if anyone wants to try it / break it / tell me it sucks i'd genuinely appreciate the feedback. link in comments so i don't get auto-removed.
Basically showing the image without having to click the post or image.
I found the max number of tabs you can have open at one time lol
Oops 😬
I prefer the style on the left as opposed to the default view on the right in iOS 18. Is there a way to change this?
Also, what is the fastest way to open new tab as it takes me two presses and I want to do it in one?
It seems the only way to get back to Safari 18 is to overlay the entire OS again. Can I run the macOS installer from Applications, or do I have to go back through the boot stick method?
I'm on Sequoia 15.7.7 on a Mac Pro 5,1 with Mac-flashed Metal2 capable GPU so I've no issues seeing the screen before login.
For anyone who liked the essentials feature in Arc or Zen and ended up back in Safari: I built it as a Safari Web Extension.
Toolbar popup with a grid of favicons grouped into spaces. iCloud syncs across your Macs. Drag to reorder, drag between spaces. Click a tile and it focuses the matching open tab if one exists, otherwise opens a new one. Set a custom icon if a site's favicon is bad. Configurable keyboard shortcuts for open and space-switching.
Doesn't manage Safari's pinned tabs, doesn't read your history. No telemetry, no analytics, no servers. Favicon fetches go from your browser directly to the sites.
$4.99 one-time, porchase (macOS 14+, Safari 17+). Apple's refund policy applies if it doesn't work for you.
I'm the dev, happy to talk about the implementation if anyone's interested or answer questions.
Some time ago I began noticing how disorganized and chaotic is everything in Safari/Chrome regarding bookmark management.
It feels like these patterns are not being touched for a hundred years. Folders, favorites, tab bars with folders and favorites… I don’t know about you, but for me it’s all just a graveyard of old forgotten links. And when I need to open a specific website I just go to search bar and start typing it.
The only thing that is actually useful is iCloud tabs in Safari, cause I can keep surfing the same flow from different Apple devices.
About keeping bookmarks synced between different browsers, it’s a pure pain. The only way to do it is to export and import, but it’s definitely not how it should look like.
Solution came really easy. One day while coding on my day job I just placed all the bookmarks I constantly need on my personal website and hide it under the subdomain. Took me about an hour (no database, no auth). I’ve basically built the personal bookmark page, and designed it the way I want (been working as a designer for 10 years and coding alongside it for the past 3).
Couple of my friends and colleagues then have seen it and said that it’s really cool, and they would love to have something like that on hand.
So it was no brainer for me, and I’ve began building tinypad, the modern launchpad for web browsing. Minimalist aesthetic, simple feature list, styling customization. All built with my favorite frameworks, that I really enjoy using. Auth with Google account, database with Mongo.
I’ve imported all my bookmarks to tinypad, then set tinypad/mypad as a homepage in all the browsers. Then I reorganized everything, cleaned things up and the problem was solved.
So here I am, a month later with a working product. Those friends and colleagues began to use it and actually enjoy the simplicity and clarity.
The beauty of being a design engineer today is that you can turn any good idea into working product in your free time, and share it with people who need it.
It also shows that if giant tech companies ignore some part of experience they treat as unwanted, there will always be a solution coming from a passionate indie devs like me.
If you are interested in any of that and would like to see or maybe start using tinypad, I’ll happily share more.
Attaching here a screenshot of the main tinypad interface for the reference. Never going back to the browser bookmark folders, really.
Cheers!
Title explains itself. I can’t log in to websites when I’m in safari.
- I can’t log in to Protonmail because it says “Unsupported Website”
- I can’t access the Apple website because “Connection Invalid”
Other browsers worked fine for me, but I want to fix Safari. Please help
This is about the Safari app on iOS - so sorry if this is not the right spot. For the past few months the app is unusable and I have been having to use Chrome. I have cleared web history and disabled extensions - particularly ad blocking extensions such as Ghostery. Is anyone else experiencing this and what is the best fix?
Everyone is making it complicated so I thought I’d make clear steps.
1. Input any random search into browser and confirm your google profile pic is in the top right corner
2. Now open the Google App Separately and confirm your Google accounts are matching on safari and the app
3. In Google app> click the four squares on the bottom right corner.
4. Click SEARCH LABS (it looks like a little beaker)
5. The first option should be “AI Mode” under “Experiments” > Turn off :)
6. Go back to safari open a new tab and search something else random. It should be working now.
Lmk if anyone needs pictures :D
I'm on a Mac using DDG with Safari (private browsing mode). How do I stop AI generated summaries when I click on a search result? Actually, AI generated summaries come up even within a website. Is this a DDG issue? A Safari issue? There's got to be a way to stop it.
I’m a heavy tab hoarder on Safari and I’m trying to stop the chaos once and for all.
I’ve tested a few, but I keep getting mixed results, some feel lightweight but too limited, others feel powerful but glitchy or inconsistent on Safari.
Right now I’m looking at:
What I actually care about:
For people who’ve used these long-term:
Which one do you actually stick with?
And more importantly, which ones did you eventually abandon because they got buggy, slow, or just didn’t scale?
Trying to find the closest thing to a “set it and forget it” tab solution for Safari.
Here are the three I use:
I have tried to compare them and uBlock has hands down performed the best every time.
Here are the links to download:
uBlock: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6745342698
AdGuard: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-ad-blocker-for-safari/id1047223162
I am trying to load my routers home page via http and get this error. I can load other web pages without using https but not this one. I am running iOS 26.5 RC2 now but had the same issue when not on the beta?
How do I get it to stop showing me these suggestions? I’ve gone through my Apple settings and in-browser settings and can’t get rid of it. I’m completely sick of having thumbnails for porn RIGHT THERE ON MY FUCKING SEARCH PAGE. How do I get rid of it?
Edit: this isn’t suggestions from what people have sent me, it also shows frequently visited websites. I deleted them all before this post due to the aforementioned reasons
I’ve been having issues with Safari not opening links from Gmail or any other app, so I just decided to make Chrome my default and it’s making the user experience less frustrating. Is there anyone who has found a solution to the ghost links or links not loading.
I would love to switch back to Safari for privacy and to keep things in the Apple ecosystem, but Chrome is delivering with Safari can’t right now.
