![]() Saft isn't free, but it's been worth it to me. I went to the site mentioned in the thread and got none, either. I often go to the site and get no pop-unders. One can set it use regex matches if one knows how. Saft's 'Ad Blocker' lets one add specific URLs to block, for example: Posters there report that GlimmerBlocker works to prevent such things.įor what it's worth, I use Saft with Safari Version 4.1.3 (4533.19.4) under Tiger (OS X 10.4.11), and these things never bother me anymore. While I prefer to use Firefox and Camino on my MacBook Pro and iBook G3, my sister still prefers Safari on her pretty white MacBook because she says its faster and looks better.Reading the Apple Discussions thread, it seems pretty clear it's a pop-under or similar, which Safari's pop-up blocker won't prevent. ![]() I'm under the impression Sharon in Singapore uses all three in different capacities too (I think!). Well this morning I finally got around to installing a new hard drive in her MacBook and installed Mac OS X Leopard fresh for her. While searching for the usual plugins she uses for Safari I came across one that looked so interesting and useful I was about ready to go onto my own Macs and install it myself: GlimmerBlocker. GlimmerBlocker is an advertisement filtering system that uses a proxy server on your Mac, which means it filters ads on every application you launch (very cool) and as a bonus it doesn't need to hack anything to work (it's not a haxie to use the Mac lingo). While it seemed like a great idea, upon installing it on Elke's MacBook and my MacBook Pro (my iBook couldn't use it because it has Mac OS X Tiger), the internet connections on each machine failed and we were presented with the cryptic error message shown above upon entering our System Preferences screens.Īs it turns out, when the application activated itself it changed the proxy settings on the machines automatically, so when it failed it blocked any internet network requests. By doing so, it seems it also blocked its own attempts to connect to its own server to download the appropriate files. The only way to get internet back on our Macs was to uninstall this plugin and restart Mac OS X. GlimmerBlocker-1.4.16.dmg (release notes). ![]() ![]() Fortunately the GlimmerBlocker folks had good instructions on how to do so on their Trac wiki. When installing GlimmerBlocker, you might be prompted to install Java. Perhaps the next release will work, but I'm somewhat nervous about trying again considering it failed so verbosely on two seperate machines.+ 08:44:17 () Bug: launchdĬorelogic.c:3119 (23923):2: chdir(j->workingdir) != -1+ It's a shame, the premise for GlimmerBlocker was intruiging and the features looked promising. + 08:44:17 () posix_spawnp("/Library/PreferencePanes/GlimmerBlocker.prefPane/Contents/Glimmer BlockerProxy.app/Contents/MacOS/GlimmerBlocker". + 08:44:17 () Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds+ A: Nonsense, Apple macOS is the easiest to instal and uninstall apps on To. when you have the iPad 3 and all the other convertors have yet to catch up. I removed Glimmerblocker months ago, after a brief trial that revealed this program is useless for me.Ī few days ago my sleep function started to act up, either not sleeping at all, waking all by itself, or waking after key pressing but bypassing the required password login. I looked at the Console and found the lines above. Because GlimmerBlocker doesn't install system extensions, input managers, etc, it is enough just to deactivate GlimmerBlocker. It produces them at a rate of about 2000 per hour. First, make sure GlimmerBlocker is deactivated. or Hold down the control-key while clicking the GlimmerBlocker icon. Open 'System Preferences', click on the GlimmerBlocker icon, and make sure the 'Activate GlimmerBlocker' checkbox is unchecked: Because GlimmerBlocker doesn't install system extensions, input managers, etc, it is enough just to deactivate GlimmerBlocker. GlimmerBlocker is now deleted from your system. Obviously something is still looking for a Glimmerblocker file.
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