Glims adds a cocktail of features to Safari (More Search Engines, Favicons in tab labels, Chrome bookmarks, Tabs and Bookmarks improvements, Dated download folders ...)
Features:
Features:
- Adds search engines to the Safari default engine list
- Adds Favicons to tab labels
- Adds Chrome bookmarks to bookmarks collection (Safari 5.1+)
- Adds option to disable wide tab labels (Safari 6)
- Adds option to set minimum tab label size to favicon size
- Adds search link suggestions to Safari completion window
What's New
Version 1.0.42:
- Added Installation Screen to setup ads preferences.
- Fixed: UTF8 in Google search suggestions display as expected.
- Fixed: Last selected tab.
- Fixed: Undo multiple closed tabs.
- Fixed: Tabs reopening twice.
- Fixed: Crash log window showing for no reason.
- Known Issue: Bookmarks separator are not showing on Safari 7/6.1 sidebar.
- Known Issue: Middle-click close feature not working on OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
Version 1.0.42:
- Added Installation Screen to setup ads preferences.
- Fixed: UTF8 in Google search suggestions display as expected.
- Fixed: Last selected tab.
- Fixed: Undo multiple closed tabs.
- Fixed: Tabs reopening twice.
- Fixed: Crash log window showing for no reason.
- Known Issue: Bookmarks separator are not showing on more...
Requirements
- Intel
- OS X 10.5 or later
- Safari 3.0.4 (4525.18) or later
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Glims adds a cocktail of features to Safari (More Search Engines, Favicons in tab labels, Chrome bookmarks, Tabs and Bookmarks improvements, Dated download folders ...)
Features:
Features:
- Adds search engines to the Safari default engine list
- Adds Favicons to tab labels
- Adds Chrome bookmarks to bookmarks collection (Safari 5.1+)
- Adds option to disable wide tab labels (Safari 6)
- Adds option to set minimum tab label size to favicon size
- Adds search link suggestions to Safari completion window (Safari 6)
- Adds keyword search from address bar
- Adds sort bookmarks alphabetically
- Adds bookmarks labels
- Adds bookmark separators
- Adds 'new tab' position option (right/left/leftmost/rightmost)
- Adds 'close tab' using middle mouse button
- Focus last selected tab
- Type-ahead support (auto cmd-f)
- Adds a "Max Window Size" menu item to resize the Safari window
- Dated download folders
- Sets the focus on the search field when opening a new window (Safari 5)
- Undo "Close Tab" (cmd-z)
- Localized to French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Danish, and Swedish.
- Re-opens last session when Safari starts
- Adds full-screen browsing capability
- Forms autocomplete always on
- Always open links in a new tab
- Autocomplete search phrase (Safari 5)
- Auto-Closes download window (Safari 4)
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Michiel Brand reviewed on 28 Jan 2014
Haven't found a useful alternative yet, unfortunately :/
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If your Mac ran an earlier version of Glims well in the past, I suggest going backwards to that earlier version. 1.0.42 is forced ADWARE thanks to this forced Bing rubbish, something I consider entirely unwelcome on the Mac platform.
Happy note: I have NOT seen the Bing 'Bug' on my OS X 10.9 Mavericks Mac, for which I added no personalized search scripts. So you might be fine. Also, anything previous to 10.0.42 will CRASH Safari 7, which is exclusive to OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
And Microsoft: Please take Bing and shove it.
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Machangout said: "The bug has been reported we are fixing it right now."
On 13 January 2014 I say: We're still waiting! Hello! Please fix this bug yesterday! Like you promised!
BTW: I went bashing around inside the Glims software and found no method of stopping this, ahem, 'bug'. It's hard coded into the software.
If this, ahem, 'bug' isn't removed this month, don't expect my support of Glims in the future. Instead expect 1-Star reviews. Foisting Bing on users, especially Apple users, is NOT forgivable or tolerable, ever. OK? Just fix the 'bug' and we'll be all happy again.
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Are you sure this is a 'bug'?
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Kernos reviewed on 29 Nov 2013
I solved this problem by going to Safari Prefs->Glims->Ads/Shopping-> And check Off. Mine was on Hit Me, the default.
This started after installing this weeks Glims update
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winnar reviewed on 28 Nov 2013
Are you afraid that we won't pay you as much as that trick you are doing - trying to catch everybody that haven't seen the default button? And then sell info about them... That is the kind of thing that corporations commonly do. Because they lack morals and ethical standards.
If you want to get paid, then put a price for us to pay, don't play with us.
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What on earth were the developers thinking allowing ads rather than charging a fee, which I and many others would gladly have paid?!
To support the developers I tried to tolerate the ads - but the advertising style was the most insidious type - utterly destroying the browsing experience and making some sites completely unusable.
Either make Adblock shareware or keep it free - don't pollute your software with the very thing that we are using it to escape from.
Clearly not a lot of logic was applied to that decision.
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Also, please add a donation link to your website. Why don't you allow donations? Please take my money, devs.
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Rasputinsrevengereloadet reviewed on 27 Nov 2013
So I decidet to turn on the light version.
So only when I'm in an online shop, I get references to other products.
At first, this was a little confusing, but now that I know that it is Glims doing this it's ok and to support them, I'll klick on one of these links every now and then.
Most free application that don't ask for donation or don't have adds, gain there money by spying on your private data and sell it! Including some very big companies.
So what would you prefer?
We all have to make a living and nothing is free.
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Mnm reviewed on 26 Nov 2013
I appreciate seeing that the developer is highly involved in the comments here and in personally working with the negative comments to find resolve, etc. Respectful. But... I'm sorry, I can't trust you or this app until the functionality is completely removed—and I'll be seeking alternatives until it is.
Dev, I believe I can speak for at least some others by saying that my trust can be restored, but the ad thing has to go. Completely. I will happily pay a small fee for your application. Especially if you implement functionality to BLOCK ads. ;)
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Located Bing at preference, disabled, but can't be removed.
Yikes again!
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Noivad reviewed on 26 Nov 2013
used a bit,
Ads. popped up
Little Snitch lit up
deinstalled.
Ad-ware is more annoying than nagware. Avoid this unless you like advertisements popping up to “help” you buy things to make your life easier and better with no effort.
I can see the Marketing Major’s thought process now: “The internet should be easier to use — maybe if users just had a single button and things just played without needing them to lift a finger. We could insert ads. that ate up their bandwidth, and took over the whole screen—like TV, but betterer because it’s more engaging and requires less of that thinking stuff that hurt’s my head.”
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As a result, I have also uninstalled Glims, after many years of unobtrusive, happy use.
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Ads on web sites are often related to Products we looked on the Internet, for example we looked for a Brand and model of a Mobile Phone, then we see sometimes related ads. But it has nothing to do with Glims. Except of it that I don't see the announced feature to sort bookmarks by name in Bookmarks Menu of Safari 7, is Glims still a great tool.
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Just an idea, but I'd gladly pay $5 for Glims if you stripped it of all adware and spyware.
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However, just because you are fine with ads. does not mean others are. The install must have not toggled it properly, or completely. And by “lit up” I mean that little snitch intercepted multiple requests to ad-networks/social network sites even after switching off ads. So, I stand by my 1 star review: GLIMS is now adware.
If I close a tab and restore it with cmd-z, no history of that tab is restored
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I've tried to revert to 1.0.41, no way, still invisible!
(but Glims agent is running in the background)
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Now it's ok.
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- 1b20 is the last version for Tiger.
It's a pity that they don't give that information directly in their site and moreover that they don't give links for those versions!!!
A few years ago, I had requests from MU users wanting the Tiger version, I was happy to give them a hand but asked MHO to offer a link for that version... I suppose just they throw away old versions as soon as they have a new one and they don't care about PPC users anymore. :-(
After upgrading to Mavericks, Safari didn't open/load and close tabs. I was unable to enter Safari's preferences - windows just didn't open. After removing Glims Safari started working fine.
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The more annoying one is that if I open a new (empty) window, do a search via the Glims-modded search field, and click a link in the results list, some percentage of the time the back button does not work--the search results page is not in the history stack.
The other problem (probably related) is that if I right click a search-result link or two and open them in another tab in the background, then try to regular-click a search result link to open it in the main window (basically, I want to view three results pages, so I open two in new tabs then the third in the results tab), the regular-click doesn't register--I can only open links if I right-click and open them in new tabs.
It's tremendously annoying, and the behavior has been more or less the same, albeit somewhat erratic, on both 10.7 and 10.8, Safari 5 and Safari 6. I assume it's not DuckDuckGo's fault, since they don't seem to be doing anything exotic code-wise, although it's possible it is.
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I've tried cancelling anything called Glims on my computer but no way... :-(
Reverting to b32 once again!
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Good work Machangout! ;-)
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If you can, you'd better upgrade to Snow Leopard, otherwise, try to contact the devs directly at MacHangout.com, they are usually very kind and responsive
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I had to install the simplified version to have a correct behavior, but loosing some options ...
Versions Safari 5.1.5 & Glims1b32
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