Version 1.7 of DeliciousSafari is available. Many bug fixes, performance enhancements, and new features are included in this release. Special thanks to the 60 beta testers who tracked down and reported bugs to make this a solid release.
Changes
- URL icons (favicon) are displayed next to bookmarks
- Added a toolbar button for saving bookmarks
- Added spell checking to the Name and Notes fields
- Fixed tag suggestions on Tiger that stopped working with Delicious.com 2.0
- Increased maximum length of Notes field to 1000 to take advantage of new maximum allowed by Delicious.com 2.0
- Bookmark saving is faster (now processed in the background so you don’t have to wait for the save to complete)
- Safari startup is faster (tag menu is now generated on the fly, rather than when Safari starts)
- Improved reliability of Import Bookmarks from Safari
- Fixed several issues that prevented DeliciousSafari from loading on some computers
- No longer a SIMBL plug-in
- Added Invalid Credential notification when your Delicious password has changed and needs to be updated in DeliciousSafari
- Checks for Delicious updates every 15 minutes in case you add Delicious bookmarks through something other than DeliciousSafari
- Logout really works now (it used to leave your username and password in the keychain)
- Menu item text is now truncated in the middle if the text is longer than 60 characters
- DeliciousSafari now opens a Safari window if there isn’t one, rather than doing nothing
As SIMBL is no longer needed you can delete it from /Library/InputManagers/SIMBL, but only do so if you know you have no other SIMBL plug-ins, otherwise those plug-ins will stop working.
Tags: bugs, favicons, performance, toolbar
Nice update. The toolbar button is a great idea, though the icon could stand a cleanup.
Does DeliciousSafari make itself available to Spotlight at all? One nice thing about Pukka is that all my Delicious bookmarks are made available during a spotlight search.
No, it is not available to Spotlight, though I did consider that as a possible search mechanism. As I haven’t come up with a search mechanism yet, so Spotlight is still a possibility, but I will probably end up rolling my own instead.
[...] with Delicious 2.0’s new 1,000 character limit in notes, no longer being a SIMBL plug-in, and much more. I donated $10 for this plug-in not long after I found it; DeliciousSafari is that [...]
I like the on-the-fly bookmark updating but there is one caveat for me.
I have my keychain configured to lock after 5 minutes and now my keychain is being regularly unlocked because of this frequent update. Would it be possible to turn off the feature perhaps? Or at least make it so that doesn’t keep trying once you click cancel (I could handle that)
After installing DeliciousSafari 1.7, I noticed a significant increase in outgoing traffic (400 connections per minute) randomly to my Delicios bookmarks. Logging out of Delicious and/or uninstalling the plugin and the connection attempts stop.
@Paul the first
It is not possible to disable the update at this point unless your network connection is disabled. I think the best solution for you is a manual update. I’ll add this idea to my feature request list.
@Paul the second
Yes, you are observing the favicon downloading. This is heaviest the first time you launch DeliciousSafari after install. The favicons should be downloaded relatively quickly and you should no longer see a ton of connections after that (though DeliciousSafari will still try to download favicons it previously had trouble with). DeliciousSafari makes up to 25 outbound connections at a time. During beta testing, I decided on 25 because it turned out to be a good compromise between fast favicon downloading and keeping Safari performance fast.
I have one interface request when adding tags. Now that Delicious has a 1000-character limit, can you make the notes pane resizable? As it is, I can drag the dialog bigger, but that only makes the tags pane bigger; the notes section is still a fixed size and doesn’t even have a scrollbar.
A possible solution would be make the tags pane size-to-fit, so unless you’re really, REALLY tag-happy, you won’t ever hit a need for a scrollbar in the tags pane.
How about thinking about support for tag bundles in an upcoming release?
@Elroy – it’s a requested feature but I have no plans for implementing it at this point.
Hi!
I’d like to know where is the toolbar icon stored, I couldn’t find this information in the documentation.
Thanks!
Max, you should see the toolbar icon in the Safari toolbar after you install DeliciousSafari 1.7. If you don’t see it, make sure you have DeliciousSafari 1.7 installed by selecting the Delicious menu and then About DeliciousSafari.
If you do have 1.7, then select “Customize Toolbar…” from the View menu. You should see a toolbar item named “Save to Delicious”. Drag that to your toolbar.
If you have 1.7 but don’t see a toolbar item, then you may have a conflict with another Safari plug-in. I have reports of Safari Strand, for example, causing DeliciousSafari and 1Password to behave erratically.
Hello,
I’d like to report a problem (maybe a bug): “import Bookmarks from Safari” doesn’t work on my mac. Specs follows:
macbook 2,1ghz
osx 10.5.5
safari 3.2
DeliciousSafari 1.7
(system language: italian)
Regards,
Riccardo from Milan
@ Riccardo Thanks for the report. I’ll get to you off list about this.
I’m moving from Firefox to Safari and one of the important points there is DElicious integration. FF extension for it is just perfect and the main feature there is the sidebar which allows me to quickly filter out tags.
I have 100+ tags and flyout menu you have here are basically unusable. Favorite tags are simply manual work, not something I would use.
Any chance of implementing a sidebar that allows per-keystroke tag filtering?
@Aleksandar Yes, I’ve thought about it but don’t have plans to implement it yet. I also have many tags and I agree, it is clumsy. However, you can get rudimentary tag search by opening the Tags menu, moving your cursor over on of the tags, and then start typing the tag name you want to go to. That’s what I do.
“Import Bookmarks from Safari” not working here either. It attempted to the 1st time and got 200 approx up then it failed. Everytime now, it either hangs at the start and does nothing or reports an error. Tried logging in/out and also logging in direct to Delicious in browser.
MacbookPro
Safari 3.2.1
OSX 10.5.5
Mark
I don’t think this plugin is working anymore under Safari 4 beta?
@lazyj It should work. A couple of days ago I had several people report at the same time their bookmarks weren’t being saved, but the problem stopped for at least some of them. Please let me know if this continues to be a problem for you. You can reach me here:
http://delicioussafari.com/contact_us.php
@Mark Sorry for the inconvenience. The import tool is far from perfect and it does have bugs like you mentioned. There is no workaround at the moment other than to try again.
One thing I really like about the Firefox Delicious Plugin is the Bookmarks toolbar, showing your recent bookmarks from left to right. Is this planned for an upcoming release?
@Stew,
I like that feature too, but no, I haven’t planned it into an upcoming release.