Sessions has been useful enough that I’ve actually stayed with Safari 11.x on my main personal Mac, rather than drop it, but I suppose I really should bite the bullet and upgrade to the latest Safari for security reasons. I’m someone who tends to keep a lot of Safari tabs and windows open at once, and I’ve found Sessions to be an extremely helpful complement to the native Safari Bookmarks and History functions. Unfortunately, the developer of my favorite extension, Sessions, has decided not to update it for the new Safari extensions environment. I haven’t tried Better, so that will be next in my parade. I’ve been using StopTheMadness, Sessions, and, ever since Apple dropped support for old format extensions, a parade of ad blockers, none of which seem to be as effective as their pre-deprecation predecessors. They’re each available in the Mac App Store, and Underpass is in the iOS App Store too. StopTheMadness also supports Firefox and Chrome, although they don’t have free trials available at present.Īnd in case you’re wondering, I paid full price for my copies of StopTheMadness and Better (which is developed by Ind.ie) – and for Jeff’s other product, Underpass, an encrypted file transfer and chat app which doesn’t rely on any external services. If you’re unsure as to how effective StopTheMadness is, he currently has a free trial available: his website explains more. Jeff, its developer, probably knows about as much about the Mac and web services as anyone that I know – you’ll see a string of his valuable comments through my Mac articles here. I don’t understand how StopTheMadness does its job. And I haven’t seen any tracking ads for, well, since I installed Better. When I want to copy or use Safari’s contextual menu, StopTheMadness just works as you’d expect. The trouble with them both is that they’re so good at their jobs that I no longer notice how much they do for me: like all the best extensions, they just get on with it. The first is Jeff Johnson’s unique StopTheMadness, which fixes all those blocked features, and Better, which protects my privacy from trackers. I only use two Safari extensions now, both of which I strongly recommend. I’m not in the least averse to regular ads, and understand how many sites need their revenue, but so many sites now, even UK government services like the Met Office, feed a ludicrous number of tracking services. Two things upset me about many websites: their blocking normal Mac features like contextual menus, autocomplete and copy, and tracking.
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