“Apple may be preparing to update Safari with extension support, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber hints,” MacNN reports.

“‘The other big thing that’s missing (compared to both Chrome and Firefox) is a proper extension API,’ says the writer. ‘If only Apple had an imminent developer conference where they could unveil such a thing,’” MacNN reports. “While such a statement would normally be considered speculation, Gruber often phrases inside information in an insinuating manner.”

MacNN reports, “Apple’s WWDC 2010 event is scheduled to start June 7th.”

Full article here.

Source: MacDailyNews

Apple today releases Safari 4.0.4 for Mac and Windows. Which is recommended for users to update for stability, performance and security including:

• improved JavaScript Performance
• improved Full History Search performance for users with a large number of history items
• Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins, the search field and Yahoo! Mail

Detailed information here.

Download Link here.

I upgraded to Safari 4 once it was out of beta–or so I thought. This thing crashes all the time! Every time I open it, almost, it freezes up and I have to force-quit. Sometimes this happens a few times before my startup page will actually load. My friend who did use the Safari 4 beta and then upgraded to the final release says that, for him, the beta was actually more stable! I do have SafariStand installed, even though I never use it–could that be the problem? I don’t see an option in the preferences to uninstall it. Can you help, or should I go back to Firefox?

We sympathize with your frustration, having experienced the same chronic issue with Safari freezing up on launch. Nothing is more annoying than a Web browser that refuses to browse the Web, huh? The morning we read your email, Software Update had an update to Safari (version 4.0.2), so try that and see if it makes things work a little better.

If that doesn’t help, your next move should be to uninstall SafariStand, since you don’t use it much anyway. (For readers unfamiliar with SafariStand, it’s a SIMBL plug-in that adds more menu items to Safari, like killing animated GIFs, altering sites’ appearances, and a lot more.) Look for a file called SafariStand.bundle in Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins. Delete it and restart Safari, and you should be good to go. Since doing both of those things, we’ve gone from Safari locking up while loading the homepage 60 percent of the time to almost never.

How to delete SafariStand: Find this file, delete it, and restart Safari.

If you get Safari 4 working again and find you miss SafariStand, head to hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html and download a new Safari 4–compatible version, available for Tiger and Leopard Macs. The plug-in is freeware.

I was unhappy when Safari lost the Page Snapback command from the History menu. This command would take Safari back to the very first History page for that window/tab. Well, here’s a little javascript bookmarklet that does the same job.

javascript:history.go(1-history.length);

Create a new bookmark, and enter that into the Address field. I keep mine on the bookmark bar, and it works fine for my needs. I wish I had thought of this sooner!

Sometimes its annoying when you close your safari browser and a lot of tabs are in it then it will pop a confirmation to it, here’s one thing you can do to close safari without confirmation

1. Hold down the Option key when clicking on the close button.

Thats easy!

You may have noticed that some links in Safari absolutely refuse to open in the same window. After a while this can leave you with several windows open at once – which can make your desktop a real mess.

You can, however, change this so that links that would normally open in a new window will now open in a new tab instead.

To do you need to launch the Terminal and type in the following:

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

Hit return the quit and restart Safari. Now all of your links that would normally open in a new window will open in a new tab. If you want to change back to the previous settings all you have to do is open Terminal and type in:

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool false

The close and restart Safari again.