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I created this extension about a month ago but I realized that it would probably get lost in the noise of Twitter, so I decided to write a quick blog post about it to give it a bit longer lifespan.

If you're a user of Instapaper, you might miss the auto-archive feature they used to have. It would automatically archive an article when you clicked on it to read it. At the time that they removed the feature, I created FIFO Links, which uses HTML5 storage to accomplish the same thing. The catch with FIFO Links is that it didn't provide shared storage; it only worked in one browser.

Recently, I decided that I should give Instapaper another shot (driven mostly by support for Instapaper in Reeder, the excellent RSS app for iPad). So as a result, I created a Safari extension that revives Instapaper's auto-archive feature.

You can download it here (you might need to option click that link to download it). Just double-click the package after it downloads and it will be installed in Safari. If you're curious about the source code, it's available on Github.