Glims extends Safari functionality, a lot
Safari has it fans and critics, and it’s the intersection of those groups targeted by this plugin. Nearly two dozen additional features, from search to tabs, a little something for everyone, come to the table with this free and easy Safari plugin.
I’ve been a happy Safari Stand (i.e. copy HTML tag — sweet!) user for a long time. However, I’m always on the hunt from ways to extend and enhance Apple’s popular WebKit-based browser.
Mac Hangout’s Glims (4.4MB) subsumes a lot of the best functionality that can be had by downloading and installing individual Safari extensions. Moreover, it puts all of those features in a single easy-to-use preference pane inside Safari.
Would you like to bring back a just closed tab by simply pressing Command + Z (undo)? It’s in there.
An area where Glim excels is search. It brings together a range of Inquisitor-like features that make finding what you’re looking for a lot easier (i.e. MacUpdate, wikipedia searching).
Additionally, Glim appends thumbnails to Google and Yahoo searches, which adds a visual cue to the generally text heavy business of search.
Yes, you can add many or most of the features in Glim via Safari extensions (See also: Top 10 Safari extensions [and their friends]), but this plugin does a lot and gives you a single preference pane from which to control it all. I’m liking Glim a lot…
What’s your take?
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September 4th, 2010
“Would you like to bring back a just closed tab by simply pressing Command + Z (undo)? It’s in there.”
Interesting choice of feature to highlight, since it is precisely one of the features built into Safari 5…
September 5th, 2010
For me Glims is the one thing that takes me back from Google Chrome to Safari again. It brings the missing extras from Chrome to Safari.
One very practical feature: If you command-link to a new tab from one of your pages, after closing the new tab you’re back in the old tab (from where you clicked), not in the right-most tab that “normal” Safari takes you to.