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Safari’s equivalent to the AdBlock?

Posted in Apple, Tech by Derek at 1:15 pm
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As much as a enjoy the seamless extension options available for the Firefox internet browser, I find myself wandering back to Apple’s Safari browser due to a few random reasons. One of which is the fact that Safari feels incredibly faster starting & browsing.

Safariblock

Of all the extensions available for Firefox, the single most missed extension was the incredibly valuable AdBlock extension. Various sites which I had trimmed down using Adblock returned to their obnoxious state whenever I chose to browse with Safari.

All of that has changed since discovering SafariBlock. Despite having not been updated since November of 2005, and a number of negative comments reporting that the extension failed to work properly, I managed to import a number of my Firefox AdBlock rules into the blacklist which worked flawlessly. Try it for yourself and report back with results.

2 Responses to “Safari’s equivalent to the AdBlock?”

  1. Justin says:

    Derek! I have a question if you might know…

    you know how in the right click menu it says “Search in Google”? well, that opens up in the same tab. do you know how to make it open in a new tab so i don’t have to click back?

  2. Robert says:

    I’ve been moving back to Safari from Firefox, too.
    There’s a few things that’ll ad block for Safari: PithHelmet, Saft, CSS from floppymoose or FiltersetP, privoxy… PithHelmet might be the best or best known. There’s more “extension” goodness at pimpmysafari.com

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