How to Enable Safari 5 Extensions
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 7:07AM | Print Article After the keynote at WWDC 2010 Apple released Safari 5 for Mac OS X and Windows. The following new features have been added:
- Safari Reader - Provides a new, scrolling view that allows you to easily read single and multipage articles without any additional content or clutter.
- Nitro JavaScript Engine - Safari 5 on the Mac runs JavaScript 30% faster than Safari 4.
- New HTML5 Features - Safari 5 now includes support for more HTML features, such as HTML5 Geolocation, HTML5 sectioning elements, HTML5 draggable attribute and many more.
- Safari Extensions - Allows users to create extensions using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
During the announcement Apple said that extensions would not be made available until later this year. Thankfully there is a simple process to enable extensions and a Tumblr page has been set up with plenty of development extensions for you to try out today.
First, download and install Safari 5 from Apple's website or "Software Update" on Mac OS X.
Once installed select "Preferences" from the menu bar.
Click the "Advance" tab and select "Show Develop menu in menu bar".
You should now see the new menu bar item "Develop". From here you can click to enable extensions.
You are now ready to download the new extensions from the Tumblr page. Enjoy!