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Q: Installing Safari 10 Extensions?

How do I install extensions in Safari 10 in MacOS Sierra?

 

In Safari, when I go to Safari / Safari Extensions in the menus, it drops me in the Safari Extensions Gallery web page where I can browse extensions.  However, I am unable to install anything because there are no links or buttons to do so.  At the top of the page is say the gallery is for extensions intended to run on Safari 9.0.  What about Safari 10?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12), Safari 10

Posted on Sep 21, 2016 1:21 PM

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  • by John Galt,

    John Galt John Galt Sep 21, 2016 7:41 PM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame
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    Sep 21, 2016 7:41 PM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame

    Are you not seeing the links in the screenshot below? If not please read If Safari doesn't load a page or webpage items are missing - Apple Support.

     

    2.png

  • by ireallyhatepickinganame,

    ireallyhatepickinganame ireallyhatepickinganame Sep 21, 2016 8:10 PM in response to John Galt
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    Sep 21, 2016 8:10 PM in response to John Galt

    Thanks for the reply!  My screen looks exactly the same, but without the links (see below).  When I click to go into an individual extension, there are no links there either.  I read through the link you sent and disabled all my extensions (I only had 3, but one was an ad blocker), and it has made no difference.

     

    Screen Shot 2016-09-21 at 10.00.55 PM.png

    At the top of the page, it says this:

    Screen Shot 2016-09-21 at 10.06.04 PM.png

    Could the web page not know what browser and version I am running?

     

    By the way, my wife's iMac is doing the exact same thing.

  • by John Galt,

    John Galt John Galt Sep 21, 2016 8:37 PM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame
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    Sep 21, 2016 8:37 PM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame

    Could the web page not know what browser and version I am running?

     

    That's what I'm thinking. Determine it with the following:

     

    https://duckduckgo.com/?q=user+agent&ia=answer

     

    The first line in the grey box below "answer" will be "Your user agent:" What does it say?

     

    As a last resort, post the Safari Extensions you're looking for so that I or someone else can post their URLs.

  • by ireallyhatepickinganame,

    ireallyhatepickinganame ireallyhatepickinganame Sep 22, 2016 7:08 AM in response to John Galt
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    Sep 22, 2016 7:08 AM in response to John Galt

    "Your user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12) AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Safari/602.1.50"

     

    That looks right to me.

     

    I was really just poking around, but I did find an extension I thought might come in handy called Awesome Screenshot.  This is a screenshot of it's page.  No installation links there either.

     

    Screen Shot 2016-09-22 at 8.52.46 AM.png

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Sep 22, 2016 7:24 AM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame
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    Sep 22, 2016 7:24 AM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame

    Try pasting the below into the URL bar to see if it will load when accessed directly.

     

    https://safari-extensions.apple.com/

  • by ireallyhatepickinganame,

    ireallyhatepickinganame ireallyhatepickinganame Sep 22, 2016 7:34 AM in response to Eric Root
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    Sep 22, 2016 7:34 AM in response to Eric Root

    Nope, I get the same thing.  You know I've been thinking that if this same exact thing is happening on my MacBook Pro and my wife's iMac, maybe it's not the computers?  Could there be an issue with the router (AirPort Extreme)?  Although honestly, I can't even imagine that the router would somehow block web links to only Safari Extensions and work fine for everything else.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Sep 22, 2016 8:37 AM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame
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    Sep 22, 2016 8:37 AM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame

    I doubt it is the router, but try resetting it. That won't hurt anything.

  • by ireallyhatepickinganame,Solvedanswer

    ireallyhatepickinganame ireallyhatepickinganame Sep 22, 2016 9:02 AM in response to Eric Root
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    Sep 22, 2016 9:02 AM in response to Eric Root

    I figured out what it was.  I had Avast installed on both machines for antivirus protection.  When I couldn't disable the "web shield", I uninstalled the application.  It also took a "Clear History" in Safari before the links appeared.  Reinstalling Avast did not cause the links to disappear, so I think we are good on this end.  Thanks for all your help!

     

    Edit:  I spoke too soon.  Avast's Web Shield still blocks links to install the extensions, but since reinstalling I'm able to disable the software, so there is a work-around. 

  • by ireallyhatepickinganame,

    ireallyhatepickinganame ireallyhatepickinganame Sep 22, 2016 9:11 AM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame
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    Sep 22, 2016 9:11 AM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame

    I couldn't do another edit above...

     

    Better solution is to go into the Avast Web Shield settings and add "https://safari-extensions.apple.com/" to the excluded servers.  Be sure to change the service to "https".

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Sep 23, 2016 8:39 AM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame
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    Sep 23, 2016 8:39 AM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame

    Uninstall Avast. It tends to interfere with the computer's operation while providing minimal to no benefit.

     

    Avast

     

    Avast Un-install

  • by ireallyhatepickinganame,

    ireallyhatepickinganame ireallyhatepickinganame Sep 23, 2016 8:43 AM in response to Eric Root
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    Sep 23, 2016 8:43 AM in response to Eric Root

    Is there a better anti-virus/malware software you'd recommend?  I was under the impression Avast was pretty good.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Sep 23, 2016 8:58 AM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame
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    Sep 23, 2016 8:58 AM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame

    At the present time there are no Mac viruses, so anti-virus software isn't required. Based on reading discussions here for awhile, Avast and other anti-virus programs can/do cause problems. If you want to use it, if you experience a problem, you can quit the program to see if that helps.

  • by ireallyhatepickinganame,

    ireallyhatepickinganame ireallyhatepickinganame Sep 23, 2016 9:22 AM in response to Eric Root
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    Sep 23, 2016 9:22 AM in response to Eric Root

    That's not exactly true.  I've had to clean both my mother's iMac and my niece's MacBook of some malware that they picked up somewhere.  In fact, they are the reason I have Avast installed at all, because like you I thought Macs couldn't get virus'. I recently switched from a Windows environment where anti-virus is the norm, so not having to worry about it was very nice for a while.  My niece's computer really opened my eyes though.  She couldn't hardly open a web browser and do a google search without being redirected or having garbage popups.  Avast cleaned it up though, and aside from this little issue (where it was actually just doing it's job), I haven't had any problems or huge computer slowdowns - which is something I used to deal with on my Windows machine all the time.  So thanks for the warning, but I'll probably stick with Avast until I have a more compelling reason to uninstall.

  • by thomas_r.,

    thomas_r. thomas_r. Sep 23, 2016 3:36 PM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame
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    Sep 23, 2016 3:36 PM in response to ireallyhatepickinganame

    ireallyhatepickinganame wrote:

     

    I was really just poking around, but I did find an extension I thought might come in handy called Awesome Screenshot.

     

    I would advise not installing that one. It's adware, and on top of that is known to slurp up your web history and send it back to the developer, which is really not something it should be doing.

     

    Beats me why Apple still features it on that page.

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