SIMBL0.9.9

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.

I couldn't open cDock. When I typed "carutil disable" into Terminal in accordance with the instructions, I was told that that code couldn't be found, or something to that effect.

Something New. Haven't tested it yet. https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/56755/mysimbl

I hope you read this, Mike. I used the link on the SIMBL page to get your address emailed to me. When I replied it was returned as a delivery failure. Ever wonder why you don't get any SIMBL email? So here's my message: Just a tip: You should include a text file with downloads detailing where to install the plugin. And put that in the description on MacUpdate. Not everyone has a SIMBL folder to start with. I do but couldn't remember where it was (Spotlight's too stupid to find it, but EasyFind could have). Although I'd read something about placing it in the root library for sandboxed apps, I don't have a SIMBL folder there, mine is only in the user library. I was hesitant to install it on my fresh install of Yosemite, but haven't encountered any issues yet from running cDock. I just placed SafariStand in there, so I'll see how it goes.

If you want to use SIMBL in Lion you can use EasySIMBL: https://github.com/norio-nomura/EasySIMBL/downloads

It's sad to see such a great program/utility die. Been hoping for Lion support forever. I'd pick it up if I was any good with programming. Someone should re-invigorate it.

SIMBL is not compatible with Lion, no matter what anyone says. It was installed on 7 of my family's and 11 of my colleagues' Lion Macs plus mine, and all 19 suffered multiple SIMBL crashes every single day until we were forced to trash it in the last couple of weeks. Since he hasn't updated it in nearly a year nor responded to ANY of the panicked queries here or anywhere else, clearly Mike Solomon has abandoned SIMBL — and his implicit promise to all the developers whose apps rely on it. Oh, and millions of us users, too.

Does anyone know if SIMBL will be compatible with the upcoming Lion OS?

For those wondering, SIMBL stands for: SIMple Bundle Loader

WARNING: MacFixIt has an article on this today (6-23-10) that this can cause Safari 5 to crash.

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 ?

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.

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: --- 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. --- 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 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

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.

what goes on ? every time safari 4.0.3 dissables simbl/pithhelmet !

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

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"

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?

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.