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Safari 3 Leopard: Add-ons?

RaceTripper said:
Jeez. Hasn't anyone heard of Privoxy? It rocks, and it works for all browsers you have installed since it runs as a proxy service, independent of your browsers. You don't need browser specific plugins like AdBlocker, PithHelmet, etc.

BTW: for Leopard you'll need to follow these instructions for getting it to autostart on boot.
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Ok, sounded like a great idea, installed it, and already removed it. Now I can't open any Google webpage (that is, anything that includes google.com in the address). Gmail actually works fine, as does my Googlepages site, but google.com is completely inaccessible within Safari. I'm questioning whether Privoxy did it or just coincidence, because it works fine in Firefox, but this is incredibly aggravating. Any suggestions?

jW
 
Privoxy does not handle any HTTP traffic unless you set the 127.0.0.1:8118 proxy to it. It's just a proxy service that filters HTTP content based on a set of rules. Privosy is not invasive – it only affects/filters HTTP traffic pointing to it's proxy address. Otherwise it has no effect.

The only way Privoxy could be causing your problem is if you still had it running and you added a filter to the configuration to block everything from Google. I think you have something else going on.

I am using Privoxy with Safari on Leopard and it works great. No problems. And I used it for months on Tiger with no problems.
 
That's what I thought, it's just the timing that made me suspicious. It's started working again, mysteriously, so I don't know what was going on.

jW
 
Mal said:
That's what I thought, it's just the timing that made me suspicious. It's started working again, mysteriously, so I don't know what was going on.

jW
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It's too bad you didn't make Privoxy work for you. With it you never have to worry about using any ad filter plugin for any browser. I love it. And when you add to it's configuration it's applied automatically to everything that uses HTTP.

I really wish I could get SAFT working. I miss its features more than those of Inquisitor (which is working).
 
RaceTripper said:
Privoxy does not handle any HTTP traffic unless you set the 127.0.0.1:8118 proxy to it. It's just a proxy service that filters HTTP content based on a set of rules. Privosy is not invasive – it only affects/filters HTTP traffic pointing to it's proxy address. Otherwise it has no effect.

The only way Privoxy could be causing your problem is if you still had it running and you added a filter to the configuration to block everything from Google. I think you have something else going on.

I am using Privoxy with Safari on Leopard and it works great. No problems. And I used it for months on Tiger with no problems.
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I have used Safariblock on Tiger. I can't get it to work on Leopard. I've tried all the inputmanager changes noted above to no avail.

I'm currently using Privoxy. Its hard to install. The instructions don't tell you that you need to edit its configuration file and change permissions on files. They have it setup so that it can run as any user so that you don't have a security exposure.

I had to change a line in /Library/StartupItems/Privoxy/Privoxy
At the top it says
daemonuser=privoxyuser

I changed privoxyuser to a valid userid on my system. I then changed the owner on /Library/Privoxy to be that same user, ie
sudo chown -R userid /Library/Privoxy
where userid is the userid on your system

You then need to configure your network settings to use an http proxy pointing to 127.0.0.1 port 8118.

Then reboot to get it to automatically start up. Or you can manually start it with some command I can't remember.

Generally privoxy is working amazingly well considering I haven't altered the rules at all.

My problem is figuring how who's serving up embedded flash or annoying javascript. With Safariblock I could usually right click and it would tell me, or worst case it could show me a list of all loaded files and I'd guess. But the only way I can see to do it with Privoxy is to manually parse the source.
 
dmelgar said:
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I had to change a line in /Library/StartupItems/Privoxy/Privoxy
At the top it says
daemonuser=privoxyuser

I changed privoxyuser to a valid userid on my system. I then changed the owner on /Library/Privoxy to be that same user, ie
sudo chown -R userid /Library/Privoxy
where userid is the userid on your system...
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Thanks for posting. That's a better (safer) way to run privoxy. I changed my setup to match and it works just fine.
 
Thanks, guys, I'll give it another try with those suggestions. That just really scared me for a bit, since I use Google for just about everything online.

jW
 
I wonder what happened to Safari 3's anti-phising measures that were in the developer builds...

safarifraud2.jpg


From: (http://www.tuaw.com/2006/10/19/screenshots-from-the-latest-leopard-build/)
 
Mal said:
Thanks, guys, I'll give it another try with those suggestions. That just really scared me for a bit, since I use Google for just about everything online.

jW
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Privoxy is highly configurable (using a web interface). So if it interferes with Google stuff, chances are you can make exceptions to solve it.
 
RaceTripper said:
Privoxy is highly configurable (using a web interface). So if it interferes with Google stuff, chances are you can make exceptions to solve it.
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The only problem with Privoxy is the website. It's so bare minimalist that it looks like a hacker site.

I can see it now, I install Privoxy and 100 people are out there giggling "haha another sucker just opened up a private proxy for us. Start upping that Dixv rip before he shuts it down".
 
build said:
How did you get safari block and twice tab working, and what versions did you use?
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to get twicetab 1.3 working, you need to install SIMBL 0.82 first.

then put the twicetab bundle in:
/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/

and for SafariBlock 1.3
you need to put it into:
/Library/InputManagers/

and then open up Terminal.app and type this command:
sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/InputManagers
type you password.

(info from here)

than everything should just work!
:D
 
does anyone know how to change the next tab shortcut to Ctrl+Tab instead of :apple:+Shift+} i tried in system preferences but it wont let me use tab.
 
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