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The product's author, Scott R. Lemmon, unfortunately has passed away but support for The Proxomitron continues through its large enthusiast following. This is evident from the main download site which offers several versions of the product including the last version Scott released before his death. The site also has setup instructions, resource links, and lists of sites where you can test whether the product is working.
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Proxomitron works fine on Vista, and should be good on Win7.
There are a few reports on winehq, which say that Proxomitron runs fine on WINE (Linux). Proxomitron itself is a "light" app. (Originally written for early Pentium III through P4; Win98, Win2000, WinXP)
This TSA page title "popup blocker" is under-rating Proxomitron by far.
I've seen some posts on the web claiming that other software can substitute for Proxomitron, but further investigating showed that there's nothing like Proxomitron.. Html, Css or Javascript knowledge is good, but Proxomitron is good if you're only curious about how your browser "digests" the internet
Proxomitron can be difficult to mod, but after some years, I've become better at writing or editing filters.
To avoid prematurely quitting use, newbies should learn how to completely bypass websites. Most Proxomitron configs include a bypass url file. Right click Proxomitron's systemtray icon to add an url or to directly edit the bypass file. (https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=Proxomitron+Systray+Menu)
This example tells Proxomitron to bypass filtering (don't filter) any file beginning with www.somewebsite.com/
www.somewebsite.com/
However, if page on that site (www.somewebsite.com/somepage.html) loads scripts beginning with script.somewebsite.com/, those scripts may still be filtered (cleaning scripts is often a good thing imo)
Two ways to bypass filtering the www and those scripts:
1.) use 2 bypass urls:
script.somewebsite.com/
www.somewebsite.com/
2.) use a more general bypass "expression"
\w.somewebsite.com/
This tells Proxomitron to bypass files that begin with:
www2.somewebsite.com/
mail.somewebsite.com/
video.somewebsite.com/
www.somewebsite.com/
script.somewebsite.com
You can also merge the two lines of method 1 into a single line:
(script|www).somewebsite.com/
Proxomitron has builtin tools, but I suggest also using a syntax formatting text editor. It helps you read html, css, and scripts.
Find a forum (or use TSA's)
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?q=Proxo+OR+Prxbx+OR+Proxomitron+inurl%3Aforum
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?q=Proxo+OR+Prxbx+OR+Proxomitron+My.opera
Intriguing "enthusiast" sites:
http://www.searchlores.org/proxomitron_powerusing.htm
http://prxbx.com/other/paulrupe/
Good post :)
Fancy expanding on this a bit more and writing a how-to article for us to publish? If so, please send me a PM or use the site contact form.
well proxomitron shoulk be a must..unfortunetly tha author passed away.
there are some sites that offer support..but i found it very difficult .
if you installl the program by itself ,it will remove most ads,banners,flash..but you will have problems with others like enabling javascript,falsh videos.etc...
i prefer privoxy=is more flexible..
-another excellent option for opera-firefox and iron is fanboys;s adblock list.
I just installed Proxomitron and visited the Merriam-Webster website, which always gives me a pop-up ad for The Economist magazine. I still get the pop-up. Fail.
Use a more recent filterset. Currently, that set is sidki's.
Proxomitron is like a framework for maintained filters and list files (and more. there are ways to add all types of things).
Temporarily turn off the browser's images (in the browser options) to reduce what you need to look through.
Either
1.) Watch the log window for urls (links) resembling:
somesite.com/scripts/popups_v5.js
2.) Or look in http://local.ptron/.pinfo/urls/
for those "popup" looking urls. They'll be in lines that begin with
Closed 55595 200 application/x-javascript
Then add this to the killfile:
somesite.com/scripts/popup
That will also stop similar "popup" urls
somesite.com/scripts/popups_v46.js
somesite.com/scripts/popups.js
somesite.com/scripts/popup/popup/promos.js.js
though these examples may not exist :)
BTW, a line that contains the "000" code is an url that didn't load, often because successfully blocked by HOSTS (if you use HOSTS to block):
Closed 2765 000
Try to give me a bit more info maybe we can correct the problem
Bob
Hi,
Does anyone know whether Poximotron works on Vista? Thx.
I am running it on Vista home prem. Will post here if any ERRORS show up,
Bob
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