Perhaps look elswhere... - Andreas..

Perhaps you should think again. Probably many thousands of us (me included) use "a lot of tabs" with no problem whatsoever from PT – just a constant appreciation of its blessing!

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Monday, April 16 2007 @ 07:58 AM PDT

No, it does cause more crashes - Rick Deckard

I like Pith Helmet too, but it does cause more crashes than running without it. I find it's usually on web pages with Flash content. Once I find a page that crashes 100% of the time, if I disable Pith Helmet and reload the page, no crash!

I read somewhere, perhaps here, that once Leopard ships Apple will be removing the ability for programs to control web content like Pith Helmet currently does. We'll see how that goes, perhaps it can be worked around, or maybe it'll be time to start using Firefox.

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Tuesday, May 29 2007 @ 01:16 AM PDT

Frequently crashes Safari - Frank_Martin

I use Safari with lots of tabs,and Pithhelmet almost never causes a crash. Certain obscure (to me) web pages will do it, but is very, very rare. When it happens, I just disable Pithhelmet temporarily, using the Pithhelmet menu to conveniently turn it on and off.

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Tuesday, June 12 2007 @ 10:07 PM PDT

Frequently crashes Safari - John Sawyer

I can confirm that Safari crashes more often when PithHelmet is installed. Here's one web page where it happens consistently:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/07/17/speaker.surgery/index.html

This web page causes Safari 2.0.4, under a clean, newly installed copy of OS 10.4.10, with all OS X updates, to crash every time, so it's not due to anything but PithHelmet or its InputManager. I tried changing PithHelmet settings, and the only thing that stopped the crashing was to disable PithHelmet features that you use it for in the first place.

I can't figure out which is worse: Safari crashing, or having to suffer the stupid animated ads that it blocks.

I wonder if Apple will be removing the ability to block some web page content, as a concession to "content providers" that have complained to Apple about the "unlawful" activity of users in trying to block ads. Some people in the advertising business, and people who make their living from ads, have actually tried to make the case that blocking ads is, or should be, illegal. Given that Apple is pretty commercialized, they may feel they're part of that faction.

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Tuesday, July 17 2007 @ 12:47 PM PDT

Frequently crashes Safari - John Sawyer

Well, whaddya know. I fiddled some more with PithHelmet's settings, and found that, so far, I've gotten Safari to not crash on the CNN web page I cite above, but still blocking most ads, including animated ones, by opening PithHelmet's Rule Editor, selecting its "Ad Blocking" tab, and turning OFF "Enable ad blocking for this site", plus enabling all the other options in that section EXCEPT "Block URLs from 3rd party sites", since that prevents most images from being displayed, at least on some sites. I also selected "Animate images: Twice", though of course if you don't want any ad animation, set this to "Never".

Who would have known that turning off "Enable ad blocking for this site" wouldn't turn off ad blocking, as long as you have the other options turned on? The primary option that blocks a section of a web page from displaying an ad, seems to be "Hide images and other inline content: Matching known ads sizes".

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Tuesday, July 17 2007 @ 01:23 PM PDT