For Windows users, Apple’s Safari browser is borderline garbage. It seems they ported it to Windows simply because they felt “they had to”. Mac users on the other hand enjoy a much more polished and refined browser that among other things, doesn’t crash every five minutes. Speaking more-so to the latter, if you’ve managed to keep laser focused on Apple’s in-house browser in the age of Chrome 6, Chrome 10.5, and Firefox 4 beta 2, the new Extensions Gallery which just went live will make your browsing experience much, much better.
Much like Firefox and Chrome’s extensions portfolios, Safari’s will seek to bring untold amounts of added productivity, connectivity, and entertainment to the browser. After taking a brief spin through it myself, I must say that there are some pretty notable players already jumping in. For myself, I’m finding the Twitter extensions to be pretty handy, displaying relevant/trending tweets alongside the page I’m currently in — nice!
The Bing extension is another nifty one that incorporates robust search, mapping, social information, and statuses (read: flight updates) right within the page by simply highlighting text.
Clearly, Safari just became a much more useful browser. Go on ahead and give it try. Just make sure to come back and let us know what you think?
