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If you haven't yet used Safari 5's new extensions feature, we've covered the ins and outs. But which extensions are worth installing and which are better left alone? In the process of writing that article, I tested innumerable extensions from Apple's Safari Extensions Gallery, the Safari Extensions blog, and around the Web, and came up with a list of 25 that I found to be especially useful—or, in some cases, informative or entertaining. (I haven't included extensions that, while useful, do things you can approximate using Safari's own features.) Chances are you'll find more than a few that will make Safari a better browser for you.

1-Click Weather for Safari (via Extensions Gallery): Gives you a new toolbar button that, after entering your zip code in the extension's preferences, opens a new tab to the Weather.com weather page for your area. You could, of course, get similar functionality using a bookmark, but the toolbar button itself sports a live-updated badge displaying your local temperature.

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A Cleaner YouTube: This extension automatically reformats YouTube pages to remove clutter. For example, the main YouTube page displays only the thumbnails for 'most popular' videos, and individual video pages display only that page’s video, playback controls, search box, and a channel toggle for viewing thumbnails of other videos in the same channel. (If you'd prefer YouTube always loaded the HTML5 version of its pages, check out the YouTube5 extension.)

Autocomplete: One of the biggest annoyances of Safari’s AutoFill feature is that it doesn't work on Websites—especially financial sites—that include code to prevent autocompletion of forms. If your computer is in a private location, such as your home, you can install this extension to force autocompletion to work even on these sites.

BetterSource: Safari's View Source feature (in the View menu) shows you the code behind the current Web page, but the plain text that pops up in a tiny new window isn't very easy to read. With BetterSource installed, you can view a page's source code—which automatically appears in a new Safari tab—with syntax coloring and line numbers. A nifty option can also show you the code for the actual page you're viewing, including any tweaks other Safari extensions have made to that code.

Coda Notes: One of the most interesting extensions I've seen, this one gives you annotation tools—pencil, highlighter, eraser, sticky notes—for marking up the currently displayed Web page. You can even edit the text of that page. When you're done, you can send your comments and edits via e-mail as a screenshot.

Google Reader Styles: This extension lets you customize the look of Google’s online Google Reader by providing alternate themes—six as of this writing—that change the fonts, colors, and basic layout.

Google Search Cleanup: If you find Google's 'new and improved' search-results layout to be cluttered and difficult to read, this extension tweaks results pages to remove the new options sidebar and any sponsored links.

Instapaper Beyond: I'm a huge fan of the Instapaper Web service. Instapaper Beyond adds full keyboard navigation and an on-demand Help display to the Instapaper Website.

InvisibleHand (via Extensions Gallery): Wondering where to find the cheapest price on a product? With InvisibleHand installed, when viewing a product on many retail Websites, you’ll see a small orange bar across the top of the page telling you if the current price is the best one—or how much you can save by purchasing from another source. If multiple sites sell the item for less, a pop-up menu displays the price at each retailer, and you can even quickly view previews of Amazon.com reviews. (While the developer claims InvisibleHand works with “100 retailers in the U.S., UK, and Germany,” you can’t configure which online retailers it should search, so if you’d prefer not to see, say, eBay price comparisons, you’re out luck.)

Linked Images: When viewing a page with lots of links to images, clicking on this extension's toolbar button replaces each link with the target image (or, if you prefer, replaces the current page with a new page that includes just those images). This one is great for viewing pages with many linked images, such as Reddit's I Took A Picture page.

Mail Open Tabs: Creates a new e-mail message, in your preferred e-mail client, containing the URLs for all tabs in the current window or in all Safari windows. You can configure default values for the message subject and text, as well as default recipients. For example, I mainly use this extension to send URLs to myself, so I've entered my own address in the To field of the settings screen.

MeasureIt: Click the new MeasureIt button in the Safari toolbar and you get a nifty measuring tool that lets you find the exact dimensions (in pixels) of anything in the current Safari tab.

Netflix Queue Sorter: When browsing your Netflix Queue on the Netflix Website, this extension adds buttons for re-sorting the queue by title, length, rating, genre, availability, or Instant availability.

NoMoreiTunes: Do you hate clicking a URL, expecting to go to a Web page, only to see iTunes open—or, worse, launch when you don't want it running? This extension simply prevents iTunes URLs from launching or switching to iTunes, instead displaying the Web-based iTunes Preview page for the clicked URL. If you want to open the link in iTunes, you just click the View In iTunes button on the preview page.

Ostrich: Click the new Ostrich toolbar button to get a drop-down Twitter client, complete with tabs for your main timeline, @mentions, and favorites. You also get unread counts and the capability to compose a new message. The composition window even includes a button to insert the current tab's URL as a bit.ly-shortened link.

Reload Button: Many Safari users have lamented Apple's decision, starting with Safari 4, to remove the useful Reload toolbar button in favor of a tiny button inside the URL field. This extension, by Ars Technica and Macworld contributor John Siracusa, gives you back that familiar toolbar button. Thanks, John.

Safari Access Keys: Some Websites, including Wikipedia and Facebook, use a special HTML attribute to provide keyboard shortcuts for navigating pages. But how do you know what those shortcuts are? With this extension installed, whenever you view a Web page that includes keyboard shortcuts, you automatically see a new Safari toolbar listing those shortcuts. To use a keyboard shortcut, just press Control+Option+[key].

Sessions: Safari can restore all the windows and tabs open the last time you used the program, but as useful as that feature can be, it's quite limited. Sessions lets you save and restore sessions—groups of windows and tabs—at will. You can even search within sessions, delete particular windows from a session, and remove duplicate URLs with a click. My favorite feature, though, is that Sessions can automatically open whenever you launch Safari, letting you choose exactly which windows and tabs you want restored.

Short URL: Lets you quickly get an is.gd- or bit.ly-shortened URL for the current Web page by either clicking a toolbar button or pressing a keyboard shortcut. Written by Ars Technica's Clint Ecker, short URL uses a site’s own shortened URL if available, and when using bit.ly, Short URL can use your personal bit.ly API.

Shortenz Linkz: Similar to Short URL, Shortenz Linkz provides a toolbar button for shortening URLs, but lets you choose from a longer list of URL-shortening services—12 at the time of this writing—and instead of a keyboard shortcut, offers a contextual menu command for shortening any link on a Web page. Shortenz Linkz also includes an option to tweet the resulting short URL.

Shut Up (via Extensions Gallery): Hate reading what other people have to say? Or just tired of inane comments posted to online articles? This extension blocks the comments section on many Websites. A click on its toolbar icon displays those comments if you really want to punish yourself.

SnapBack: If you miss the old Safari SnapBack feature, this extension adds a button to the Safari toolbar that attempts to emulate that feature.

SuperDrag: Do you tend to open links in new tabs? If so, SuperDrag lets you perform this action—which normally requires a Command+click or accessing a contextual-menu command—with a simpler gesture: Just drag the link anywhere else on the page and release. The link's URL will open in a new tab in the foreground or the background, depending on your settings for the extension. SuperDrag is especially useful for trackpad users.

Tab Duplicator: This extension provides a contextual-menu command and an optional toolbar button for duplicating the current Safari tab. You can choose whether the duplicate opens in the foreground or background, as well as where on the tab bar it opens.

Youtube Wide: This useful add-on simply forces Safari to load the “widescreen” version of any YouTube page.

Lex Friedman contributed to this article.

[Dan Frakes is a senior editor at Macworld.]

We built Safari to be the best browser for your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Built-in privacy features keep your browsing your business. You can stream and search smarter with handy tools that help you save, find, and share your favorite sites. Apple Pay in Safari lets you shop safely and simply. Safari for Mac is faster and more energy efficient than other browsers. And thanks to iCloud, Safari works seamlessly with all your devices.

Defending your online privacy and security.

Privacy and security aren’t just something you should hope for — they’re something you should expect. That’s why features to help protect your privacy and keep your Mac secure are built into Safari.

Intelligent Tracking Prevention.

Remember when you looked at that green mountain bike online? And then saw annoying green mountain bike ads everywhere you browsed? Safari uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. So your browsing stays your business. And Safari keeps embedded content such as Like buttons, Share buttons, and comment widgets from tracking you without your permission. We know you’ll like that.

Sandboxing. Built-in protection for websites.

Sandboxing provides a safeguard against malicious code and malware by restricting what websites can do. And because Safari runs web pages in separate processes, any harmful code you come across in one page is confined to a single browser tab, so it can’t crash the whole browser or access your data.

Fingerprinting defense.

When you’re online, the characteristics of your device can be used by advertisers to create a “fingerprint” to follow you. Safari thwarts this by only sharing a simplified system profile, making it more difficult for data companies to identify and track you.

Protection from harmful sites.

Safari helps protect you against fraudulent websites and those that harbor malware — before you visit them. If a website looks suspicious, Safari prevents it from loading and warns you.

Private Browsing.

When you use Private Browsing, Safari doesn’t remember the pages you visit, your search history, or your AutoFill information. You can also use DuckDuckGo, a built-in search engine that doesn’t track you, to make your web searches private, too.

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More secure and convenient passwords.

Safari works hard to make sure your passwords are robust and unique by automatically creating and storing strong passwords for you. Once stored, your passwords will autofill in websites across all your Apple devices and in apps on iOS and iPadOS devices. In Safari preferences, passwords that have been used more than once are flagged so you can easily update them. And one-time security codes sent over SMS are autofilled right in the password field as soon as they appear in Messages. Security has never been so user friendly.

Surf seamlessly across all your devices.

Not only does Safari come on every Mac, it comes on all your iOS and iPadOS devices. And thanks to iCloud, your passwords, bookmarks, history, tabs, and Reading List are always up to date no matter which device you’re using.

iCloud Keychain securely stores your user names, passwords, and credit card numbers and keeps them up to date on your trusted devices. So you can easily sign in to your favorite websites — as well as in apps on iOS and iPadOS — and quickly make online purchases. And everything is protected with robust 256-bit AES encryption.

With Bookmarks in Safari, your favorite sites are always close at hand. Bookmark a web page on your Mac, and it automatically appears on all your iCloud-connected devices.

With Tab view, the last websites you had open on your Mac are available in Safari on your iOS and iPadOS devices — and vice versa. So you can go from one device to another without having to search for the web pages you were reading.

Save web pages you want to read later simply by adding them to your Reading List. Then view them on any of your iCloud-connected devices — even if you’re not connected to the internet.

The fastest way to browse on a Mac. And faster than any Windows browser, too.

With a blazing-fast JavaScript engine, Safari is the world’s fastest desktop browser, outperforming both Mac and PC browsers in benchmark after benchmark on the same Mac.¹

JavaScript performance on advanced web applications¹

Search more. Stream more.

Safari is optimized specifically for Mac, so it’s more efficient than other browsers on macOS. And Safari plays HTML5 video — the format used by your favorite streaming services — whenever it’s available. So you can explore the web for up to three hours longer and stream video for up to four hours longer than on any other browser.²

browsing compared to Chrome and Firefox

streaming videos compared to Chrome and Firefox

The best browsing experience.

Features in Safari help you surf smarter and easily manage and share what you find.

Pay easily and securely with Apple Pay. Apple Pay is the easiest and most secure way to pay when shopping in Safari. Look for Apple Pay on your favorite shopping sites, then complete your purchase with Face ID or Touch ID on your iPhone or iPad. You can also use Touch ID on your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, or double-click the side button on your Apple Watch. Your credit card details are never shared when you use Apple Pay, and your transactions are protected with industry-leading security.

Updated start page. Easily and quickly access your favorites and frequently visited sites. And Siri suggestions surface bookmarks, links from your reading list, iCloud Tabs, links you receive in Messages, and more.

Desktop-class browsing on iPad. Safari now shows you a website’s desktop version that’s scaled for the large iPad display and automatically optimized for touch input. Faster and more fluid scrolling makes browsing feel better than ever. And a new download manager means you can easily download and share files right in Safari.

Stop auto-play videos. Safari prevents unexpected and unwanted videos with audio from automatically playing while you browse. Just click the play button if you want to view them. Have a favorite site where you always want videos to play? Use per‑site settings in Safari to enable media auto-play.

Turn on website icons in tabs in Preferences to easily see what you have open. Pin your favorite sites and they’ll reappear in tabs every time you open Safari. You can also mute the audio on any tab right from the Smart Search field — perfect for stopping the music without having to hunt for where it’s coming from or, if you prefer, silencing all the audio from your browser at once.

Personalize your browsing experience in Safari with settings for individual websites, like page zoom level, location services, and content blockers. So each website appears just how you like it.

Automatically use Reader for every web article that supports it, so you can read without ads, navigation, and other distractions. Customize your view by selecting your font size and style, and choose Sepia and Night themes.

Play video from a web page to your TV with Apple TV — without showing everything else on your desktop. Just click the AirPlay icon that appears on compatible web videos and you can watch your video on the big screen.

Float a video window from Safari over your desktop or a full-screen app on your Mac or iPad. Play the video in any corner of the desktop and resize it to see more or less of what’s behind it. So you can watch videos while you browse photos. Or catch up on your favorite show while you catch up on email.

With Spotlight built into every Mac, you’re never far from the information you want. As you type in the Smart Search field, you’ll see Safari suggestions from sources like Wikipedia, news sites, Maps, movie listings, flight status, weather, stocks, and sports.³

Share anything you come across on the web without leaving Safari. Just click the Share button, then choose how you want to send it off. Use Mail, Messages, or AirDrop or add it to a note.

Developers

Deep WebKit integration between Mac hardware and macOS allows Safari to deliver the fastest performance and the longest battery life of any browser on the platform, while supporting modern web standards for rich experiences in the browser. WebKit in macOS Catalina includes optimizations and support for additional web standards that enable even richer browsing experiences.

Extensions

Safari Extensions are a great way to customize your browsing experience on macOS. Find and add your favorite extensions from the Mac App Store.