TabStop is a SIMBL plugin that displays a warning
when you attempt to quit or close a window in Safari that contains multiple tabs. Very handy, if you're used to keeping
dozens of tabs around and you're tired of accidentally Command-Q'ing instead of Command-W'ing. TabStop is a Univeral
Binary.
If you know a language that TabStop is not localized for and would like to contribute, please get in touch with me
at . Just think of all the fame and fortune that will come your
way once I thank you on my website for your contribution. Seriously, Jakub is a millionaire with two hit television shows
after his contribution.
TabStop is currenly available in English, Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, German, Swedish and Dutch.
Safari 3 and TabStop
TabStop does not work with the Safari 3 Beta Apple recently released, but it's quite ok that it doesn't. Safari 3 now
includes the functionality that TabStop provides natively! More specific details can be found here,
but if you need to uninstall TabStop, either manually remove the TabStop.bundle file from either
/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins or ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins. Or download
this little perl script I created
that’ll remove it for you.
Install SIMBL. Double-click the SIMBL package and follow the
instructions. If you have an older copy, this will upgrade it, so
be careful if you have older SIMBL plugins. Some don't work with 0.8.1.
Install TabStop. Double-click the TabStop pacakge and follow the
instructions. By default, the plugin is installed in
/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins, but it can
be moved to ~/Library/Application Support/SIBML/Plugins
if you'd rather not have it available to all users on your machine.
Restart Safari. Open a couple of URLs, tabs, and windows. Then try to
quit Safari or close a window with multiple tabs open. You should be
presented with a window to cancel the action.
Support
Chances are that I've got a bug or two in this guy. I can't test every possible environment, so if you
have problems, questions, or requests, shoot an email to
While I've compiled this for Tiger only, there's nothing specifically preventing it from running on a 10.3.x machine,
other than me recompiling it. If you are a 10.3.x user who is running SIMBL 0.8.1 (which is required for Intel support),
let me know and I'll rebuild a TabStop for you to play with.
Special Thanks To...
Ken Saunders of mouserunner.com for making available some very nice, free, already-sized-for-MacOS X icons
Jakub Formanek for providing a Czech (cs_CZ) localization
Laurent Beaurain for providing a French localization
Juri Radossevich for providing a Italian localization
Yoichiro Ishino for providing a Japanese localization
Joachim Schuster for providing a German localization
Kristoffer Forsgren for providing a Swedish localization
Ronald Lamars for providing a Dutch localization
Version History
v1.1.8
Includes Dutch localization
v1.1.7
Includes Swedish localization
v1.1.6
Fixes a bug where TabStop would force-quit Safari even if one or more downloads were active AND the
number of open tabs was exactly one. Instead, TabStop sidesteps itself if the user is trying to quit
Safari while there are active downloads. TabStop still presents itself if the request is to
close an individual window.
v1.1.5
Includes German localization
v1.1.4
Added support to present a warning when Safari is quit from the Dock or Application Switcher. Note
that quitting by any other means (reboot, shutdown, applescript, or any other third party app manager)
will terminate Safari without presenting a warning.
Includes Japanese localization (thanks, Yoichiro Ishino!)
v1.1.3
Includes Italian localization
v1.1.2
Fixed my incorrect implementation of localization... sorry about that.
Includes Czech (cs_CZ) localization
Includes French localization
v1.1.1
TabStop plays nicely with other plugins now, namely ForgetMeNot.
Removed extraneous code that was swizzling functions that I didn't need to swizzle.
v1.1
Allowed plugin to load for Safari 2.0.0 (412) through 2.0.4 (419)
Updated the icon to something that isn't "hideous". You're welcome, schmelding.
Shrunk the size of the warning windows as well.
Modified behavior to not present the warning when a single window had a single tab open.
The behavior now is to simply count active tabs (those with a URL loaded). If that number
is greater than two (regardless of how many windows are open), the warning is displayed.
TabStop will no longer prevent the system from restarting or shutting down.
Mapped the "cancel" button to the escape key. Maybe I'll add user-configurable
keyboard shortcuts if there is a large call for it.
Known Issues
TabStop and ForgetMeNot will not play nicely together. They both hijack the same
functions and I'm not sure of a way around that just yet.
. Just think of all the fame and fortune that will come your
way once I thank you on my website for your contribution. Seriously, Jakub is a millionaire with two hit television shows
after his contribution.
