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PithHelmet

PithHelmet

Safari plugin adds content filtering & site preferences.

Version:  3.0b2

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Finder window keeps popping up!

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: flyinglow2 Thursday, August 13 2009 @ 06:15 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 6-12 months

Recommend Product: NO

While browsing many websites (including THIS one), a Finder window will pop-up because PithHelmet blocked something. The Finder window takes the foreground focus & is very, very annoying and really defeats the purpose of speeding up the browsing & getting rid of pop-ups/ads. Just getting to where I type this took closing that Finder window 3 times. No way! This is a deal breaker for me. I could only imagine if I were to let someone use my computer. They'd get confused immediately with this behavior.

It is for this reason that I cannot recommend this product. Also, disabling PithHelmet doesn't really disable it 100%. I shouldn't have to find it from within the Administrator's Library/App Support.... just to hack it or delete it temporarily to browse a site properly.   
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3 comments |

Finder window keeps popping up! - flyinglow2

Oh WOW! I should have mentioned to get SafariBlock. I just installed that & it does exactly what you're looking for, but you don't have to be a hacker to use it. SafariBlock is very simplistic and works like PithHelmet used to work.

One of the websites that PithHelmet always had trouble with was Yahoo. It couldn't decide what to block, so it would either not block something or block way too much.

I'm NEVER looking back to this crap software again. What a waste of time - like a PC.

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Thursday, August 13 2009 @ 06:26 PM PDT


Finder window keeps popping up! - Doctor J

I don't see the behavior that you do. I get a "page blocked" popup about once a month.

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Friday, August 14 2009 @ 07:08 AM PDT


Finder window keeps popping up! - bobembry

I'm getting this behavior quite a few time per day

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Saturday, August 15 2009 @ 08:03 AM PDT