Apple news and Safari

Lots of big apple news toady, but you don’t need to read this weblog for that.

Apple finally released their 1.0 version (not beta) of Safari. I downloaded the update via software update and loaded my program and:

The application Safari has unexpectedly quit.

So I get the old version from by backup disk (which thank God I have). The old version loads fine but I can’t go anywhere. I type in (for example) “http://www.google.com” and nothing. Nothing at all!

So I go to Apple’s Safari page (using an old version of Camino) to try to directly install Safari. I enter my e-mail and download a disk image which I proceed to double click on and IT WON’T MOUNT.

So then I try to fuck around in the system folder with some of the frameworks and replacing them from by backup disk. But the finder won’t let me. For good reason I might add. I could of course open terminal and use sudo (super user do) to override this but I was understandably uncomfortable with this.

Then I remembered: PithHelmet.
This is an add-on I installed in safari to block ads. It works great but does seem to be kludged it to the program. So I removed it. You have to go into the <harddrive>:Library:InputManagers:SIMBL folder and get rid of the “PithHelmet” Folder.

Luckily it worked. I am posting this entry using Safari 1.0.

But no more image blocking (at least for now). At least Cocoa Gestures still work.

P.S. Safari (and presumably all cocoa applications) flag AAARG as being spelled right but AAAARGH (or any more As) as being wrong.

Update: PithHelmet has been updated for Safari 1.0. You can download the new PithHelmet Budle from the website. Yea! Image blocking again! That was quick.

Via this post on slashdot. BTW the parent was my first post on slashdot ever.