![]() Add this script to ~/Library/Application Scripts/ (you may need to create the folders along this path, note the ~ reference to your home folder rather than the root Library folder). You can automatically run the extension with the following AppleScript. Next time you relaunch Safari, the extension will still be in Extension Builder but won’t be ‘Run’. Therefore, the Team ID for your unsigned certificate is ten zeros, so you’ll need to rename the old extension’s Team ID to be zeros for it to associate it with your new extension. Your previous installation of the extension will have a Team ID because of this signing process, however the extension you have packed yourself and run manually will not since you did not use a certificate. The package that is created has this certificate inside it, and this contains a Team ID which is the ID of the developer or organisation which built and signed the extension. To expand some more on precisely what this does: when you install an extension built by someone else usually, that extension will be signed with a Safari Extensions certificate. Save the file and reload the extension in Safari to see your settings imported. Go to the dictionary with the same extension name, click on the name and replace the team ID with 0000000000, 10 zeros. Find the extension you just added, which should be at the bottom, and delete its dictionary using the minus sign. Open ~/Library/Preferences/.plist with something like Xcode. Otherwise you can import these settings by copying them from the old extension to the new extension which has a different team ID. If you don’t mind setting up the extension from scratch, or it had no options, there’s no need to worry about this step. ![]() Settings for an extension you previously had installed won’t be seen by this extension you’ve run manually. Import previous settings into new extension The extension will be installed and be available from the usual places, such as a menu bar button and Safari Preferences. You will be prompted to authenticate the action, which you can do by entering your account password or with Touch ID. Click the Run button in the top-right to run the extension. The extension folder you added will be shown in the builder, and some extension information should be shown too such as a logo and author details. safariextension folder that you extracted and choose the Select button. Click the + button and choose Add Extension…. You’ll be presented with a window, and if you’ve never built an extension before it will be blank. Once the Develop menu is enabled, open it and select Show Extension Builder. The Develop menu needs to be enabled to use the Extension Builder, which can be enabled from Safari → Preferences → Advanced → Show Develop menu in menu bar. xar Code language: CSS ( css ) Add safariextension to Extension Builder So begins how to install any extension blocked by Safari: However, not all extensions are available there and it is soon to be discontinued anyway with App Extensions the only way forward. ![]() This article presumes you’ve checked whether your extension exists in an Apple-approved form elsewhere, for example if you’ve installed uBlock Origin from uBlock0.safariextz you’ll get the message that the extension was removed, but it is available to download from the Safari Extensions Gallery (here’s a link to get uBlock Origin without going through this process). It requires manually installing the extension, so you won’t get automatic updates for it in the future, but it’s still perfectly usable and is the only way to get certain functionality until developers update their extensions for you (which some might not even do). If the extension you’re looking to install isn’t available on the Safari Extensions Gallery or App Store, not all hope is lost. Here’s links to some popular extensions which would have brought this message up, but now work fine if installed through the gallery! Extension With Mojave now being released, some extension developers have released extensions through an Apple-approved process. You can find new and updated extensions in the App Store or from developers’ websites. Some of your extensions are no longer supported in Safari
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