How to Get the Best Browser Experience from Safari

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Tweak Safari with a few extensions and add-ons to make it the fastest, fashionable-est, Facebook-iest browsing companion ever.

If you’re an Apple purist, then Firefox and Google Chrome just won’t cut it. Since Safari’s been updated to version 5, more third-party developers have created add-on extensions for Apple’s browser, so you can customize it to your liking. Our favorite Safari add-ons take it from just another browser to an ultimate internet companion.

What You’ll Need:

>> Safari 5
>> 5 Minutes

Difficulty: Easy

1. Make It Your Social Media Hub

With three simple social extensions you can easily give Facebook the makeover you want, share links with friends, and keep track of activity in your feed. The first step is to download Social Fixer (socialfixer.com), which lets you change Facebook’s convoluted UI. Once installed, Social Fixer will guide you through a setup wizard where you can choose to eliminate things like the “light box” photo viewer and the Friend Tracker carousel. Or, you can get creative and let Social Fixer add in a colorful theme.

Tweets relevant to your browser window are displayed on the left side.

If you’re a Twitter fiend, the official Twitter app (available at extensions.apple.com) is a necessity. The Twitter add-on enables you to tweet right from your browser and share stories as quickly as you read about them, as well as keep an eye on topics that relate to what you’re browsing in the left-hand side of your browser.

When you’re finished customizing both and setting your options, you can add the official Google Plus add-on, too (github.com/danls/Google-Plus-Safari-Extension). You know, because people still use Google Plus.

2. Never Lose Your Place Again

Multitaskers, you may find that in your web-browsing fervor you’re closing windows left and right without saving your work or keeping tabs on, uh, your tabs. If you accidentally close a tab, you can reopen it in the History menu, but if you’re looking for more complexity, look no further than SafariRestore (sweetpproductions.com/), which can restore entire browsing sessions.

SafariRestore offers many options for saving your work.

From Safari’s settings, you can set Safari to restore your last session on startup, restore all tabs in a single window, or default to a particular session where you have Twitter and MacLife.com open up every time you launch Safari. (Seriously, do that).

3. Remember Your Passwords

The LastPass options can be accessed from a button located next to the URL bar.

Never worry about remembering passwords with LastPass, a free and easy-to-manage password service that swaps them all out for one master keyword. The service also automatically fills out forms for you and helps protect you against identity theft. Before you install it, sign up for the service at LastPass.com.

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