My favorite Safari Extensions

I rarely use extensions or plug-ins on web browsers. I’m pretty satisfied with Safari and it’s functions, the only Safari-specific plug-in I used in Safari 4 was ClickToFlash, since Flash makes the fans on my MacBook Pro go so fast that it could fly away.

However, since Safari 5 has native support for extensions, I decided to take a look and see if there was anything interesting. I decided to share the ones I like, which I found on a tumblelog called Safari Extensions.

The first one is called Gmail Checker, which looks for new mail on my Gmail account. Normally I would use Apple Mail to check my mail, but I also use this laptop at work where SSL doesn’t work. Also, I’m already running one mail-client for my work-mail so it felt overkill to setup one more. So now I’m using the web interface, which works fine.

The second extension is called GReader, which looks for new entries on my Google Reader account. I’m also using Google Reader Styles to make Google Reader look nice.

The last one is Gentle Status Bar which shows the status bar when you hover on hyperlinks, like in Google Chrome. There are many similar extensions, but I like this one since it still looks like the original status bar in Safari.

That’s all! I don’t need more to be satisfied with my browser. And no, I’m not using any ad-blockers. If a website has too many ads, I just won’t visit it.