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1. 
   Review - Ad Muncher

   4.73.31233 Beta (Sep 11, 2009)

   Ad Muncher is still the best ad blocker out there, hands down. I rarely run into ads these days, and when I do, I report them, and they're gone generally within 24 hours. Video Ads on almost every site are completely blocked.
   
   Yes, development can be slow, but that's how it goes when there's only one person writing the code. And frankly, I think this issue is moot when the list maintainer is putting out 2 updates every day and is available almost upon demand whenever you need to report a problem.
   
   Why are people clamoring for filtering support of x64 applications? OK, great, my 64-bit browser is filtered - Too bad Flash, Java, or any other of my plugins still aren't working. IMHO, the only major feature AM is lacking is HTTP 1.1/gzip support - everything after that, to me at least, is ancillary, and certainly does not deserve a 1-star rating for lacking it.
   
   This latest release offers some huge improvements when it comes to filtering performance. The popup filtering code and javascript code were entirely rewritten, and false positives and page damage (Especially on AJAX-heavy sites like Facebook) are basically nil now.

2. 
   Review - Ad Muncher

   4.72 Build 30400 (Apr 29, 2008)

   It's unfortunate that Ad Muncher is getting such a bad rap here at FileForum. It's easily one of the best applications I've ever purchased.
   
   To Metshrine: If you really did purchase your license 4 years ago, why complain so hard? You know there's only a single developer. You do know your license is good for LIFE, right? For EVERY version of Ad Muncher ever released, a license purchased 4 years ago will ALWAYS be valid. These features being promised are coming, but it's not just a drop in the hat to implement them, especially when your code base is all in ASM (Which is also changing). How many 64-bit applications do you really need filtered? I only know of one, IE7 in Vista x64. And I never use it, because Flash doesn't even work in 64-bit applications yet, let alone Ad Muncher!
   
   If sites are broken due to AM, you need to report them (In any number of ways available - built-in chat, the right-click report function, or the forum), not just complain about them in a fileforum review. That's not the proper place for such complaints. And you need to provide specific broken URL's, not just the root domain. I just browsed around every link inside my amazon.com account and I don't see a single broken item.
   
   This product will always receive 5 stars from me. The developer support and customer support are both top notch. Thank you, Murray, for another solid release, and I look forward to continuing to help beta testing during dev cycles.

3. 
   Review - Ad Muncher

   4.72.30321 Beta (Apr 19, 2008)

   Another solid beta from Murray, and it's getting close to a final release.
   
   To those complaining about long dev cycles, well, there's not much that can be done about that when the dev team is a single guy. These changes that everyone wants aren't going to happen overnight. They require massive code rewrites and implementing features from scratch.
   
   The list maintainer is not condescending at all. He can be curt, and is very straight-forward about his answers. He is this way because time is limited. But every single website I've ever reported with broken content has been fixed immediately and has been included in the next list update. If you need the fix immediately, he will give it to you to add to your custom filter list. Every time, without exception, this is how my experiences have been handled. I've also found several bugs during beta testing processes and they were also fixed for the next beta release.
   
   The customer service ALONE is worth the price of a license. Always a 5-star product. Please rate it on the features it has NOW, not the features you WISH it had.

4. 
   Review - Ad Muncher

   4.72.29848 Beta (Jan 18, 2008)

   For those talking about better free alternatives, please remember, this does not filter ONLY web browsers. And application-specific plugins will only filter that application. Ad Muncher is a system-wide filtering application that filters everything that uses HTTP for advertisement delivery.
   
   One could argue that Proxomitron is a free option, but it is no longer being developed, and the community support is completely fragmented. The two developers of this program are always available and respond to every email. The filter list is updated every single day. New features are being implemented constantly. They have a live chat (Hooked into EFNet) where users can help if the developers are not around at that particular moment.
   
   For those reasons alone, I feel this is well worth the $25 I paid for it. And the license is good for ALL v4.x versions, and v4.8 is going to be a major revision.

5. 
   Review - Ad Muncher

   4.72.29715 Beta (Jan 13, 2008)

   Finally, full-on Vista support is here! As always, this application gets a 5/5 from me. Now all we need is 64-bit extensions (Planned for 4.73), http1.1/gzip, per-site filters, and regexp support, all of which are planned for v4.8, last I heard (I hope!).
   
   I can't live without this app anymore, and it's the first thing that gets installed after windows & windows updates :)

6. Comment - 2001: An Apple Odyssey

   4.72.29715 Beta (Sep 21, 2009 - 11:34 PM)

   -If not Mac OS X, no iMac, MacBook/Mac Pro
   
   I'm no uber-mac-Geek, but the original iMacs (with the fruity colors) shipped with OS 8, and were still really quite successful. I'm not sure how that particular bullet factors into your progression.

7. Comment - Adobe fixes major Flash Player vulnerability

   4.72.29715 Beta (Jul 31, 2009 - 6:47 PM)

   This is nice, but when are they going to make it not suck on platforms other than Windows?

8. Comment - Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 3 Showdown, Round 4: Running Web apps

   4.72.29715 Beta (Jul 21, 2009 - 5:27 PM)

   Uhm - Chrome won round 3.
   
   http://www.betanews.com/...-more-tabs/1247002012/2

9. Comment - Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 3 Showdown, Round 3: Finding a place for more tabs

   4.72.29715 Beta (Jul 7, 2009 - 10:20 PM)

   I still think Chrome should've won round 1 (Or at least gotten more testing). I still can't reproduce the results you found relating to cookies being stored until reboot with Incognito mode. As soon as I close the Incognito window, and open a new one, everything is gone, shopping carts are empty. Like others said, you may have still had a Chrome process running in the background and not known it.

10. Comment - Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 3 Showdown, Round 1: How private is private browsing?

    4.72.29715 Beta (Jun 29, 2009 - 11:20 PM)

    I generally browse with Chromium nightly builds as my default browser, updating them a few times a week. I'm currently using 3.0.191.0 (19573), and the behavior in this version is completely different than that found in the official release of Chrome. If I close the browser, everything is gone. I just added an item to a shopping cart at Newegg, closed the browser, and went back to Newegg, and the item in the cart is gone. It's hard to believe that the 'official' builds of Chrome behave that much differently than the nightly builds. There may have been a bug in that build preventing cookies from being cleared.