Comments | ceejs: Safari 4

ceejs

Safari 4

Feb 24, 2009 12:18

Safari 4 looks awesome, but I have just discovered that I can't use it until I have a working adblocker for it. The web is intolerable when it's unfiltered.

ETA: ClickToFlash is 80% of the way there. This is a WebKit plugin that works fine with Safari 4.

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ceejs February 24 2009, 20:45:44 UTC

Firefox plugins win. Performance problems galore, of course.

haineux February 25 2009, 00:08:47 UTC

http://safariadblock.sourceforge.net seems to be working on my machine...

ceejs February 25 2009, 02:39:13 UTC

Have installed it, but it doesn't seem to be nuking all the ads I might hope it would nuke. Bleat. I weep on your shoulder! I like Safari 4 a bunch otherwise.

ikkyu2 February 25 2009, 01:53:11 UTC

I love Privoxy and it has the benefit of playing well with most platforms. It would probably be of even greater use to you, as you could assimilate its scripting language with no trouble.

Another bonus is that, since it is a proxy, you can install it once per household and just point every browser at it, or point every computer's http:// requests at it if you are using polite computers, which saves some time and aggravation with multiple installs.

epileptikitty February 25 2009, 05:19:07 UTC

+1 for Privoxy. I haven't scripted it at all because I'm allergic, but it's still fine.

If I could get it to kill snap.com and another horrible pop-up-making ad site that Teh Agonist just adopted, I'd be in heaven.

I also use script blocking and flash blocking, but no actual ad blocking. Blocking most add sites in the script blocker generally works, and the script blocker makes firefox much faster when I open 50 tabs like I always do.