April 15, 2005

Safari2Yahoo updated

I've updated Safari2Yahoo. Now instead of patching Safari.app directly, I make a copy of it for you to SafariYahoo.app, then I patch that version. So now apple software updates that impact Safari will work normally. When Safari updates, just re-run Safari2Yahoo and it will make a new SafariYahoo.app for you.

Use this software at your own risk. It is alpha at best. This should however be safer than previous versions with the new copy method.

NOTE: When the program exits, there will be "Applescript error -1708". This is ignorable. I don't know why it happens but it is caused
by the applescript exiting. This only happens with I build the app in XCode.
Just ignore it, sorry.

Download Safari2Yahoo.zip here.

I know there are programs that had many search options to Safari. But these generally work in the address bar not the search box. Or, they setup a local proxy and modify safari to point to that. This is specifically to make Safari use Yahoo! instead of Google. If you want something else, try one of these other programs. Check out Version Tracker for them.

Posted by pdm at April 15, 2005 10:50 PM