Safari 4 Shows Inquisitor Gasping for Life
Update: If you’re a TextExpander user (or a user of some other text snippet software) I’ve written up some easy instructions for replacing Inquisitor’s custom search engine shortcuts using text snippets and Safari’s Location bar. Have a read if you’re pining for your lost custom search shortcuts.
If you had Inquisitor installed and upgraded to Safari 4 beta you will likely have noticed that it’s broken. Built into the new beta is now a suggested search feature that does replace some of Inquisitor’s functionality, but Inquisitors best feature was its ability to add custom searches to Safari’s search box, and I have to say that, already, I’m missing this quick keyboard access for searching my favorite sites.
In the vid below you can see Inquisitor trying to reassert itself from the web history search box. It’s like a ghost haunting the beta install that killed it. I’m very much hoping that Inquisitor will make a comeback, and as the App is backed by Yahoo now, I’m almost sure it will.
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I was lamenting the loss of Inquisitor in Safari 4 Beta until I discovered Glim:
http://www.machangout.com/
Works right now, and has even more features than Inquisitor.
April 5th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
@beattz Glims is a sweet little plugin and I use it myself. The thing that I miss most about Inquisitor, however, are those custom keyboard shortcuts for various, user defined search engines. Now I use TextExpander to make my searches from the location bar and I’m quite happy with this set up, as it still allows me to take advantage of Safari 4’s search suggestions (which are eerily good).
April 7th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
I am one of the coders of Glims. I would love to hear more about your opinion on the missing features of the softwae. The way we work is by taking a different subject on each release, going through the different feedback we received. I am adding your comment to our list but still it would be nice if you could contact us directly. (write ‘for Jim’ in the subject)
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:30 am
wow. glims really seems to be working. thanks
August 25th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Apple Safari takes more resources compared to Opera and Firefox. sometimes it also freezes so i would still stick to Opera.
September 26th, 2009 at 12:41 am
i like the design of Safari 4 but i think it uses more resources compared to Opera.
September 28th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Safari 4 is a bit slow compared to either Opera and Firefox. but i like the interface and graphics of Safari 4, it is cool though.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
i really love the layout of Safari 4. the graphics of this browser looks much better than firefox.