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- While we wait, you can use the RSS Button for Safari extension to discover and subscribe to RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds from within Safari to most desktop or online RSS news readers.
Safari User Guide
You can install Safari extensions to customize the way your browser works. For example, extensions can help you display social media and news buttons, block content on websites, give you access to features from other apps, and more.
Tip: The Mac App Store is the safest and easiest way to discover and install extensions. The extensions are reviewed by Apple, and they update automatically when Automatic Updates is selected in App Store preferences.
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Get Safari extensions
In the Safari app on your Mac, choose Safari > Safari Extensions, then browse the available extensions.
When you find one you want, click the button that shows Get or the price, then click the button again to install or buy the extension.
Manage your extensions
In the Safari app on your Mac, choose Safari > Preferences, then click Extensions.
Do any of the following:
Turn an extension on or off: Select or deselect the extension’s checkbox.
Note: You get a warning if you turn on an extension that slows down browsing.
Change an extension’s settings: Select the extension, then select or deselect settings.
Remove an extension: Select the extension, then click Uninstall. Or, delete the app that contains the extension.
Restrict an extension
In the Safari app on your Mac, click the extension’s button in the toolbar.
Choose how much access the extension has.
Extensions may access the content of the webpages you visit. Check which extensions you have installed and make sure you’re familiar with what they do. See Change Extensions preferences in Safari.
Installing or uninstalling extensions, and turning them on or off, may take effect immediately or after you go to a new webpage or refresh the current page.
Extensions For Safari
Important: The first time you open Safari, you get warnings about extensions that slow down browsing or are no longer supported:
Extensions that slow down browsing: The extensions will be turned off. You can turn on the extensions in Safari preferences.
Developer-signed .safariextz-style (legacy) extensions: The extensions won’t load and no longer appear in Safari preferences. You can’t turn them on.
Now that Safari 6 is available as part of Mountain Lion 10.8, and as a software update for Lion, I can finally explain the rumblings I made months ago about an extension facilitating feed subscription directly from Safari.
The motivation behind my foray into Safari extension development was my early adoption of Safari 6 during the beta phase. I noticed they had removed the long-standing, built-in “RSS” button near the URL bar. This button makes it easy to subscribe to an RSS or Atom feed for a blog, or any other site that offers such a feed.
I’m disappointed by Apple’s decision to remove the button, but when life hands you lemons …
Safari Rss Reader
My beta-quality, more-or-less unsupported Subscribe to Feed extension adds a handy button to the toolbar that, when a page offers RSS or Atom feeds, can be clicked to easily open the feed:// link, which should automatically open your favorite news reader.
Top Safari Extensions
I hope this extension fills a void for those of you missing the beloved RSS button from Safari 5 and earlier.
Updates:
Rss Extension Edge
- Since I posted this on Wednesday (the day Mountain Lion 10.8 was released), the response has been overwhelming. I didn’t realize there would be so much interest in restoring the functionality of the Safari RSS button.
The interest has been so strong that more than a couple people have installed the extension apparently unaware of its purpose. The gist of the extension is to make it easy to subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds in an external application, separate from Safari. For example, it will open in NetNewsWire, Reeder or any other application on your Mac that claims to support “feed:” style URLs.
Some folks who are just getting in to desktop RSS readers are discovering they don’t have a “default app” setting on their Mac, and Apple no longer provides a simple UI inside Safari for setting the default. The best solution I know for this issue is to download and use the venerable RCDefaultApp to set a default RSS reader for your Mac.
- A number of users who use Google Reader through the browser would like it if there were a way for this extension to automatically subscribe in Google Reader instead of through a Mac client. I’m not sure exactly how this would work but I bet it’s possible with a preference in the extension that would offer the ability to open a Google Reader URL for subscribing. This is a little ambitious though, so if you want this feature and happen to be able to code Safari/JavaScript solutions, please send me a proof of concept for subscribing to Google Reader from JavaScript on a web page, and I’ll see if I can integrate it into the extension.
- On August 2, 2012, I released Subscribe to Feed 1.0b4, addressing a number of issues from the initial release.