Ever since I upgraded Safari the other day I kept getting spinning a spinning beach ball and Safari would NEVER respond.
I figured out the culprit was all the Safari Extensions I had installed.
After a bit of Google-Fu I found the shell command that would disable the Safari Extension toogle in Safari Preferences.
I decided to create an Apple Script and Alfred Workflow (you ARE using Alfred aren’t you???) to simplify the whole thing.
Here’s the Apple Script:
[code language=”bash”]
—
— Safari_Extensions
— author: Matt D
— email: mattdee@gmail.com
— created: 07.17.2014
—
try — ask whether or not to disable or enable Safari extensions
display dialog "Safari Extensions" buttons {"Enable", "Disable", "Cancel"} with icon stop default button 1
set userChoice to button returned of result
if userChoice = "Disable" then
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.Safari ExtensionsEnabled 0"
display dialog "Extensions Disabled!" buttons {"Ok"} with icon applet default button 1
else if userChoice = "Enable" then
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.Safari ExtensionsEnabled 1"
display dialog "Extensions Enabled!" buttons {"Ok"} with icon applet default button 1
else if userChoice = "Cancel" then
display dialog "You quit" buttons {"Ok"} with icon applet default button 1
quit
end if
end try
try — Restart Safari with the Extension Flag set
display dialog "Restart Safari?" buttons {"Restart", "Cancel"} with icon stop default button 1
set userChoice to button returned of result
if userChoice = "Restart" then
do shell script "killall Safari; open -a Safari"
else if userChoice = "Cancel" then
quit
end if
end try
[/code]
You can download the app here
And here’s the Alfred Workflow
Enjoy!