The Hamburglar Chronicles

PithHelmet 3.0b6 Beta

This release adds support for Leopard on both Intel and PPC.

PithHelmet-3.0b6

PithHelmet 3.0b4 Beta (for Safari 4 and 5 on Snow Leopard)

This release adds support for Safari 5.

PithHelmet-3.0b4

PithHelmet 3.0b3 Beta (for Safari 4 on Snow Leopard)

This is a pretty solid release for Snow Leopard. See more information here.

PithHelmet-3.0b3

PithHelmet on Snow Leopard in 64-bit Safari

This is a long story. For the impatient, the short answer is that there will not be a PithHelmet on 64-bit Safari for some time.

One of the primary directives for SIMBL and PithHelmet was to "first do no harm." The idea being that hacking up someone else's application should only improve it. Under Snow Leopard, many things have changed and they are almost universally considered improvements.

Unfortunately, one of the casualties of these improvements is the relative ease with which applications (in this case Safari) could be hacked after the fact. PithHelmet has grown into an incredibly complex plugin. It hooks into so many subsystems inside Safari, each of which change from time to time. Under Snow Leopard, so much has changed that simply modifying the old code is no longer viable. It will be better to just start fresh.

While I am convinced this is the right approch, this is complicated by the fact that there are many changes to GCC, the dynamic linker, the Objective-C runtime, SIMBL and Cocoa itself. This is a tough task and it will take some time, but I feel that releasing something that doesn't work well would be a bigger mistake.

So where does this leave you the user? Well, I think the best case scenario is to make PithHelmet compatible when Safari is running in 32-bit mode. The functionality of PithHelmet should be left intact and the sacrifice is some amount of speed, particularly when running Javascript-intensive pages.

PithHelmet 2.8.4 Beta (for Safari 3.2.x)

This fixes the recent crash bugs for Safari 3.2.

PithHelmet-2.8.4.tbz

PithHelmet 2.8.3a Beta (for Safari 3.x.x)

This fixes the installer for Safari 3.1 on Tiger.

PithHelmet-2.8.3a.tbz

PithHelmet 2.8.3 Beta (for Safari 3.1)

This fixes PithHelmet for Safari 3.1.

PithHelmet-2.8.3.tbz

PithHelmet 2.8.2 Beta (for Safari 3.0.x)

This build works with Safari 3.0.4 on either Tiger or Leopard but fixes the menu conflicts properly.

I also changed some of the installer error messages to be more meaningful. Hopefully that will cause less confusion.

PithHelmet-2.8.2.tbz

PithHelmet 2.8.1 Beta (for Safari 3.0.x)

This build works with Safari 3.0.4 on either Tiger or Leopard.

I changed a few of the command keys so that they no longer conflict with new Safari shortcuts.

Safari 3.0.4 on Tiger 10.4.11

This doesn't work right now. Unfortunately, I'm out of the country at the moment and I won't have a chance to work on this until I return home.