Which is the best browser for your Mac? Well, it is the one that comes with your Mac, i.e. Safari.
The popularity of the Safari browser exploded with the Mac computers, iPhones and iPads. Safari syncs across your Apple devices and is faster and more energy-efficient than other browsers.
Safari is considered one of the best browsers in terms of performance and has fierce competition with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Like any other popular browser, users of Safari can browse websites, bookmark favourites, and open multiple sites in tabs.
Best extension for Safari
1. Sessions
Sessions is a wonderful browser extension for managing your Safari tabs and history. When you have more than 15 or 20 tabs open on the Safari window, this extension will help you clear things up. Sessions will auto-save your tab/window information, but you can manually save them too. The next time you want to know what you had read a few days before; Sessions history would be there to help you. With Sessions’s rich tab management and searching abilities, losing a link may be a thing of the past.
2. Save to Pocket
If you read things on the web and want to save web articles and videos to view later, then Save to Pocket would be a handy addition to the Safari extensions list.
You can save content from everywhere, and the best part is that Pocket brings you the content in an easily-readable form, excluding advertisements and unnecessary content. It automatically syncs to your computer, tablet, or phone so you can view it at any time, even without an Internet connection.
So, the next time when you find a long article to read, make sure you save it to Pocket.
3.HoverSee
Want to see a large version of the image? Or zoom into a picture? HoverSee makes you see everything in a better way and with much clarity. This user-friendly extension lets you hover your mouse over images and links to enlarge them.
HoverSee works exceptionally well on thumbnail images like Facebook and Twitter, links to image galleries, direct image links and links to any website. If you hover on YouTube, it will automatically play your video in its magnified mode.
4. Awesome Screenshot
Awesome Screenshot is another useful extension for Safari. It helps you to take a screenshot, then annotate with various editing options and share it with others through Facebook, Twitter or Gmail.
It also supports full-page screenshots without the need for scrolling. This extension has a really smooth select, giving you the ease to quickly zoom in and out, capture, mark up and save selected areas and save your image in a matter of seconds. It is a pretty good extension that you would find useful in many cases.
5. WasteNoTime
WasteNoTime is a browser extension that helps you manage your time spent on the Internet more efficiently. You can track what you visit and get reports on what web sites you spent most of your time.
It lets you create a block-list for websites to increase your focus on your work and productivity. And when it’s time, all the websites would be blocked by the system. The time quota feature automatically blocks selected web sites when you have spent a preset amount of time on them each day. WasteNoTime surely helps you manage the time that you spent on the Internet and boost your productivity.
Wrap Up
Well, extensions are a powerful way to enhance and customize your browsing experience on Safari. With extensions, you can bring new capabilities to yourself. Do try some of these, and be a multi-tasker and manage your day to day workflow effortlessly.
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