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Stumbi – StumbleUpon plugin for Safari

I had never used StumbleUpon until recently – they don’t have a plugin for Safari, and I wasn’t going to change back to Firefox just for them. On their website is written: “Unfortunately we cannot support IE or Safari because they do not provide features necessary for StumbleUpon to work.” Right. They might not have been able to make a toolbar, but what was stopping them from just making a plugin? Seems to me like they just couldn’t be bothered to make StumbleUpon work on other browsers.

Luckily there is Stumbi, a plugin for Safari that will add 3 buttons to your toolbar – one for stumbling, and two for voting. If you don’t want the buttons in your toolbar, you can use the menu in the menubar instead, from which you can also email the page to a friend.

Stumbi is shareware – it can be used free for 100 stumbles, after which you’ll need to pay $2 to continue using it. It’s a bit of a pain to have to pay to be able to use a service that Firefox users can use for free, but at least $2 is a very reasonable price. Thanks to the developer for enabling Safari users to finally use StumbleUpon!

Edit: Stumbi has now been acquired by Soya Software and is being sold for $4. *Sigh*, that’s what I get for not buying it immediately :/

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2 Responses to “Stumbi – StumbleUpon plugin for Safari”

  1. Nadeesha Cabral says:
    June 12, 2008 at 9:51 am

    Well, I guess $2 is a reasonable price. But, you are correct. We FireFox people enjoy that privilege and more for free. Would you mind me asking why you switched to Safari from Firefox? Thought Firefox was so sticky!

    Cheers!

  2. Silla says:
    June 12, 2008 at 10:17 am

    Well, 3 reasons really:
    1) Firefox is slow, and with my connection acting up the way it usually is, having Firefox slow down my browsing even more is very aggravating.
    2) Thanks to Saft and SafariStand, Safari can do everything I used to do in Firefox and more. Check out Pimp My Safari for more Safari plugins. Admittedly Firefox has many more, but like I said Safari has all the ones I need.
    3) Safari looks much better to me, and like they say in Italy, “L’occhio vuole la sua parte.” ;)
    I do keep Firefox and Camino installed in case I run across a web page that doesn’t work properly in Safari, but so far I think it’s only happened once.

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