Safari Extension

[specter78]

There is a safari extension already in App Store https://apps.apple.com/in/app/privacy-redirect-for-safari/id1558411272?mt=12 which doesn't seem official.

Any plans on creating an official safari extension?

[SimonBrazell]

Hi @specter78, I have thought about a Safari extension, given there is some cost associated with it was waiting to see if anyone actually wanted it before going ahead with it. I don't have a personal Apple developer membership (just ones I use for work) so I'd need to fork out the fee for that I think, unless Apple does freebees for open source? 🙂

[SimonBrazell]

Also I wonder how different the Safari APIs are from the chromium / FF ones? Might be a fair bit of work in making it compatible if they are different.

[specter78]

Safari does have an option of "allow unsigned extensions" under develop menu. No need to pay for apple developer account (at least for now).

Also, Apple (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions/converting_a_web_extension_for_safari) allow converting existing chrome extension to safari. This can be a start. Also found another link regarding same - https://bartsolutions.github.io/2020/11/20/safari-extension/

[ghost]

unless Apple does freebees for open source?

They don't as far as I know.

[SimonBrazell]

Also, Apple (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions/converting_a_web_extension_for_safari) allow converting existing chrome extension to safari. This can be a start. Also found another link regarding same - https://bartsolutions.github.io/2020/11/20/safari-extension/

Just tried running the converter, it builds and converts much of the project but the redirects don't seem to work correctly, seems to redirect in a loop on every page, even the ones that aren't targeted... not really sure how to troubleshoot it either, will need to spend some more time on it.

[SimonBrazell]

I've just been contacted by the developers of this port of the extension for Safari, looks like they intend to charge for it which I assume is to cover the cost of the subscription.

[ghost]

I would highly appreciate a Safari Extension as well. What I use for now is - because Apple removed the option to set a custom search engine - to forward DuckDuckGo to Startpage, since I think their results are better. I use the Userscripts extension with the following code:

// ==UserScript==
// @name        DuckDuckGo_to_Startpage.js
// @description This is your new userscript, start writing code
// @match      *://duckduckgo.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

window.location.replace("https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?q=" + encodeURIComponent(new URL(window.location).searchParams.get("q")).replace("%20","+"));

[MalteKiefer]

Please make this happend

[dminca]

A Safari extension would be of great use 🙏