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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
NotMyName Jun 9, 2015 1:37 AM (in response to arnsa)From https://developer.apple.com/support/transition/
Teams in the Safari Developer Program
The development resources available in the Safari Developer Program are now part of the new single Apple Developer Program. Your existing Safari Developer Program membership will remain active until July 8, 2015 and your Safari extensions will continue to work for existing users. Your extensions will also remain available for download on the existing Safari Extensions Gallery until the fall.
In early fall, the new Safari Extensions Gallery for OS X El Capitan will go live. This gallery will be the safest and most reliable place for users to download Safari Extensions, as all extensions will be signed and hosted by Apple to ensure that they are safe to install. All updates to your existing extensions, must be submitted to the new gallery.
Why does the Safari page still say that it's free? Probably an oversight.
Because it used to be a separate, free program, but on June 8th all of the Developer programs got restructured.
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
Kodehawker Jun 9, 2015 10:44 AM (in response to NotMyName)Apparently we will have to pay for the pleasure of creating free extensions to the Safari browser.
What's in it for me?
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
NotMyName Jun 9, 2015 12:51 PM (in response to Kodehawker)I don't know, what is in it for you to develop Safari extensions? I've met enough people who make a living writing open source software that gets given away for free.
As far as I can tell, you can develop all the Safari extensions you want for free. It's 2015, if there's documentation you need, it's probably not locked into some place that only paying Developers can see it, even if that's the only place Apple puts it. But if you want to take advantage of Apple publishing your extensions someplace nice and visible, and getting a small amount of tech support from Apple, then you'll have to pay the nominal yearly fee.
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
martijnvdven Jun 9, 2015 1:53 PM (in response to NotMyName)I guess you have never built a Safar Extension or tried to load one from source? You need a developer certificate to load any extension code into Safari, which means people will now be required to pay 99 USD to load some bits of JavaScript into the browser. So no, you can’t “develop all the Safari extensions you want for free.”
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
leonaves Jun 9, 2015 6:47 PM (in response to NotMyName)From here:
"Important: To develop extensions for Safari, you need to sign up for the Apple Developer Program online at http://developer.apple.com. After joining the program, you must obtain a signed certificate in order for your extension to work; the extension will not load until your certificate is installed. To request a certificate, follow the “Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles” link from the Developer Member Center homepage."
This is a joke, there's no way to sell extensions so why the **** should developers have to pay, all that's going to happen as a result of this is people are going to lose some great extensions on Safari and switch to Chrome.
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
Kodehawker Jun 10, 2015 8:49 AM (in response to NotMyName)Well I am not too thrilled to pay Apple to provide my free software to the users of the Apple Safari browser.
Apple will provide hosting and get a decent store for extensions, charging me for the same service that Mozilla, Google and Opera provide for free.
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
Jamie Jewett-Martin Jun 30, 2015 11:40 AM (in response to NotMyName)Appreciation from the community? Glory?
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
nycdamien Jun 9, 2015 4:04 PM (in response to arnsa)I had the same question as I got the email that my safari developer membership was about to expire.
From what I gather, the short answer: was free, is no longer as of July 8th.
Im sure this will help the already lacking library of safari extensions flourish even more.
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
Kodehawker Jun 10, 2015 9:07 AM (in response to arnsa)I contacted Apple Developer Support with a proposal that free extensions should be free to develop.
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
Kodehawker Jun 11, 2015 8:38 AM (in response to Kodehawker)Here is the answer from Apple. No hint that they will change their mind.
Hello Per,
Thank you for contacting Apple Developer Support, my name is Andrej and I am happy to assist.
I understand that you are confused why you need to pay now for the Developer Program. I also understand that you would like to get answers regarding your concern. I am more than happy to help you with that.
Please be informed that since the 8th of June 2015 the Developer Program has been updated. We have now one Apple Developer Program which combined the iOS, Mac and Safari Developer Program. Below I attached you a very useful link regarding the major update.
https:/ let us know should you have any other question. If you prefer you can also call us at 00353 1 2480047 (Mon-Fri, 08:00-17:00 GMT), please refer then to your case number 822629949.
Have a great day!
With Kind Regards,
Andrej
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
Auxburgo Jul 19, 2015 12:41 PM (in response to Kodehawker)The email you got is a default "go away" message.
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
Auxburgo Jul 19, 2015 12:40 PM (in response to arnsa)I just wanted to create a simple browser extension for Safari, one button. And when I found out that I need to pay $99 to develop a freaking button for Safari, for Apple, for FREE, on which I won't make any money... I realized that someone at Apple has to be delusional and does not want Apple to grow or help Safari at all.
Who ever is in charge of this, allow making Safari Extensions a free thing.
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
jtrag Aug 11, 2015 8:36 AM (in response to arnsa)They definitely shouldn't include Safari Extensions in the Apple Developer Program due to the fee. Developing extensions, and certificates to do so, should be free. Otherwise, we may not see many Safari extensions available, that would be otherwise
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
oliverraduner Oct 7, 2015 5:42 AM (in response to arnsa)That's simply ridiculous, as many here have stated already. Paying $99 a year to develop free Browser Extensions is outrageous - and even worse, it puts Apple far behind to like Google, for who's Google Chrome you can develop extensions without paying Google.
Hope they are going to overthink this strategy! I wouldn't be surprised if we see more and more Safari Extensions gone in the near future because of this.
...and all I wanted is update an extension I built some years ago for our company's internal use
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
jparadis Dec 4, 2015 12:44 AM (in response to arnsa)I'm not going to bother with it:
$ rm -rf ~/projects/*.safariextension
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
certainlyakey Mar 27, 2016 6:26 AM (in response to arnsa)To clarify things a bit for me: it's not only impossible to publish my extension in Apple's gallery without paying $99, but it's also impossible to develop an extension (or change another extension) for my sole use for free? Am I right?
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
ljbo Apr 13, 2016 7:32 PM (in response to certainlyakey)You can develop a brand new extension or improve on an existing one with Extension Builder which is distributed as part of Safari. The problem is that you can't build an xxx.safariextz that Safari can load. So you will need to use Extension Builder to load even your own extensions. And that is clunky as you will have to load them every time you restart Safari, typing your administrator password every time.
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
mfresco Mar 2, 2017 2:17 AM (in response to ljbo)This is exactly where I am at now. So idiotic.
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
ilovejohor Mar 2, 2017 2:21 AM (in response to mfresco)ME TOO here
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
nnyby Mar 29, 2016 11:26 AM (in response to arnsa)This sounds like typical Apple behavior. They are not interested in making and supporting interesting software, just about making money and locking down their app store / Safari extension gallery. This is why I made the decision a few years ago to stop making iOS apps and just do web development instead. I would try not to waste any effort dealing with Apple, it's nothing but frustration. The best option is to distance yourself from their malicious software whenever possible.
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
community_developer Mar 26, 2017 6:33 PM (in response to arnsa)Greedy, greedy bastards. It is one thing to develop a free extension for the community, donating your time and effort to help other people. But pay $99 each year to Apple on top of this? Greedy, greedy bastards.
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Re: Is developing extensions for Safari free?
jebbs Jun 6, 2018 7:31 AM (in response to arnsa)It's the only thing stopping me from using safari. What I want is building a extesion for myself, and don't want to publish. But the policy says, You need to pay $99 a year to use a extension written by myself, how ridiculous!