GAGARIN101  I installed 0.9.7 and the installer said it was successful. But there is no SIMBL folder in Library/Application Support. I am running OSX 10.6.2

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, restarting the macbook with no help.   
(Version 0.9.7a)

JC  Hi, I have launching upper right menubar in OS 10.6.1 w/ SIMBL 0.9.7a.

1.) Booting in 64-bit Kernel mode. Open fast user switching menu.

2.) Do not logout current account but switching to another account immediately via fast use switching menu.

While OS X loading the upper right menubar at the beginning, it takes serious delay and results in a blank upper right menubar. Only spotlight icon shows up w/o response. Any idea? Thanks.  
(Version 0.9.7a)

BORLOX  Afraid not. Changing the owner of the link has no effect. For your approach to work, you'd have to change the permissions of the user Library folder so that it couldn't be written by the user. That would of course create a lot of problems.

There's no easy workaround for the security hole created by this software. The developer could fix it, but he seems not to want to.  
(Version 0.9.7a)

MOOCAN  Hi,

Seems to be usefull ... but impossible to download ... always same roor message (The server at culater.net is taking too long to respond).

Is there any other download links ?   
(Version 0.9.7a)

WEASELBOY  9.7a fixed the installer issue for me on 10.6.1.  
(Version 0.9.7a)

F451  When I installed it was fail too, but when I restarted my Mac the new version was indeed installed and working quite well. A lot kinks were resolved with this versionÑKudos to Mike!  
(Version 0.9.7)

KHANNIBAL  Install failed. Don't know why. I am on 10.6.1.

0.9.6c worked well until now, but 0.9.7 install fails at the end of the process.  
(Version 0.9.7)

BORLOX  There's a serious security issue with this software that users should be aware of before they decide whether to install it. From the developer's site:

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Once you've installed SIMBL, you need to drop some bundles into the Plugins folder. (/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins) SIMBL scans this folder for bundles each time an application launches. It will check both the Local and User domain for this special folder.

This means that it will check ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins before looking in /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins.

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One of the few trojans to successfully exploit Mac OS X in the wild was called "Oompa-Loompa." It worked by installing an input manager in the home directory of any user who ran it. As a result, user-domain input managers were disabled in Leopard, and the permissions of the local Input Managers folder were changed so that root privileges were required to install anything into it.

SIMBL appears to re-open the security hole that was closed in Leopard. A trojan, only slightly different from the one described above, can install a SIMBL plugin in the user's home directory. Any application can then effectively be replaced by the trojan, even if the user is not a member of the admin group and doesn't have permission to modify the applications directly. You might think that because you're not running as an admin, applications such as Safari or Keychain Access are safe from unintended modification, but with SIMBL installed, you'd be wrong.

If you're going to use SIMBL, you should take steps to ensure that plugins can't be installed without your knowledge. How you do that is up to you, but if you don't have a strategy, you shouldn't be using it.

The developer should, in my opinion, change the way SIMBL works so that it doesn't load plugins from the user domain. That would mitigate the danger.  
(Version 0.9.6c)

DOKTER_MAC  Version 0.9.6c seems to work just fine under Leopard (10.5.8) & my G5 PM.

Everything is Universal & the installer works perfect.

I don't understand why they say this version is only for Snow Leopard & Intel?

Anyone who knows more about this?

Regards  
(Version 0.9.6c)

PIRX  "The download could not start because you do not have sufficient access privileges..." Please make the download folder accessible, thank you.  
(Version 0.9.6b)

PROGRAMHAPPY  To get it to work, I have to reinstall from SIMBL-0.9.6b.pkg every time my computer restarts. Why is SIMBL not starting-up with my machine?

Leopard 10.6.1 on a 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (6 GB memory)  
(Version 0.9.6b)

ZX  How come SIMBL Agent is called up on any application lunch?   
(Version 0.9.6b)

HAL0THANE  I was one of the users who reported the bug listed as fixed in version 0.95b. I reported it on 0.93b, and within hours it was fixed. I've found, in general, independent Mac developers to be much more responsive and engaged in the care of their products than any other type of developer I've interacted with (and I used to be a full-time programmer), few have been as quick to provide new builds to tackle major problems as Mike Solomon.

Who would have even _considered_ changing SIMBL from an Input Manager to a Scripting Addition in order to keep it working under 10.6? Yet that's what he did, and within no more than a handful of days. And he has added 64-bit support just as quickly.

I've been using SIMBL for almost as long as I've been using Mac. I imagine a silent majority (or sizable minority) of SIMBL users do not even know they are: I've installed apps more than once without realizing they depended on SIMBL. Like the apps and add-ons that get all the glory -- Quicksilver, Growl, MacFUSE, and the others -- SIMBL is completely indispensable.  
(Version 0.9.5b)

THMGHTD  I've been actively using SIMBL for years and consider it completely indispensable. After reading SHK747's one-star drive-by, though, I realize I've been taking it for granted. Big time.

So here's my stupid opinion.

I love SIMBL.

I love it so much I probably love the developer, Mike Solomon, too, in some kind of cool, appreciative way.

Honestly. As you wade through the catalog of system hacks out there, each trying to improve your computer life one way or another, it's not long before you realize:

The difference between a hack and a solution is staggering.

Some hacks out there are worth considering, for sure, even when their side effects create a whole new monster (I'm looking at you, APE -- don't act shocked).

But over the years, as the OS overhauls have come and gone and we've seen even minor updates give developers major problems, SIMBL has become more useful. Not less.

That's not some small thing.

What SIMBL does for developers and end-users alike is simply awesome. So maybe now's a good time for a little rallying behind the (depressingly few) developers like Mike who make our stupid worlds go 'round.

Or at the very least, how about a little perspective.

To SHK747: You're frustrated or hitting a wall somewhere or something. I get it, guy.

But with a whopping 11 posts/reviews/comments prior to yours -- that's 11, total, over 4 years -- and with only 2 of those having ratings (really. two.), it seems like maybe there's a large enough appreciation/acknowledgment deficit without casually driving the stats down.

Don't get me wrong: I love the democratic process. And the loyal opposition will always be instrumental in figuring out the kinks.

But being a curmudgeon just doesn't seem quite so... productive.

I don't know. Maybe you really hate SIMBL now.

I'm just thinking... maybe it's Big Picture time. Maybe yours will be the star heard 'round the world, and everyone who makes use of software like SIMBL -- all the people getting by with the help of other people -- will band together and represent, truly, the opinions of the majority.

The grateful, satisfied majority.

Anyway. I love SIMBL. Thanks Mike. A lot.

Note: Even though I mention SHK747's comment, I feel like it's largely a review of SIMBL (and maybe an allegory for freedom, I'm not sure), so I'm posting it as its own thing.  
(Version 0.9.4b)

GRDLOIZAGA  Many users have reported that installing this in Snow Leopard causes a buggy window to appear every time you open an application.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2148682&tstart=0  
(Version 0.9.3b)

SHK747  what goes on ?

every time safari 4.0.3 dissables simbl/pithhelmet !  
(Version 0.9.3b)

ZX  Thank You.

But what happened to /Library/Application Support/SIMBL? It looks like this version installed in /Library/ScriptingAdditions/SIMBL.osax

?  
(Version 0.9.1)

ROGER KATZ  Whether I try to download it here, or via Version Tracker, or from the developers' website, all I get is:

"Warning: Unknown(/home/phpweb/system/suspended/pastdue/index.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0

Warning: (null)() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/phpweb/system/suspended/pastdue/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/share/pear:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0"  
(Version 0.8.2)

TH3 J0K3R  Still the best for Safari plugins.

I tried PlugSuit which was impressive but couldn't reliably load and use my favorite plugin PithHelmet.

I use some Safari plugins with this and they always load immediately. I never have had a crash because of SIMBL either, only some buggy plugins.  
(Version 0.8.2)

PSEUDO TASUKI  Wait, I thought there was no way SIMBL would be compatible with Leopard. My understanding was that SIMBL uses input managers, a feature which was removed in 10.5. Can anyone clear this up for me?  
(Version 0.8.2)

EVERYDAY SOFTWARE  I've seen countless crash reports with people running this with 'less than high quality' plugins. Most of the time users don't even know what it is or how it was installed.

This leads to a support nightmare for developers who get blamed for unstable applications when it's actually Input Managers or Haxies causing problems. If you like a stable system; I'd suggest staying clear of this.  
(Version 0.8.1)

SCHMELDING  Does not work with Safari 3 beta.  
(Version 0.8.1)

HEAVY_SHOWER  so there's no need to upgrade unless an intel.mac is involved?  
(Version 0.8.1)

ANONYMOUS  Current version does not work with the latest version of Safari (2.0.2 (416.12)). It says the plugin hasn't been tested & therefore wont be loaded. Nothing crashes, you just get an annoying alert when launching Safari.  
(Version 0.8)

D-LAT.  I updated to OS 10.3.9 and had to update all input manager plugins inlcuding SIMBL. Now Safari crashes every time. Please look into this. Never had a problem with previous versions.  
(Version 0.8)

A+  As usual everything Mr. Solomon does is done well. Now Pith Helmet with Safari is snappier.  
(Version 0.8)