The application is a local HTTP web-filtering proxy that sits between your web browser and the Internet at large, intercepting all requests for web pages before your browser gets to see them - allowing for everything to be monitored, and possibly changed, by you first
The Proxomitron allows you to control the normally hidden HTTP header messages that pass between your browser and the outside world.

· Stop windows that pop-up, pop-under, or pop-over
· Stop those un-closable endless banner chains
· Stop pop-up JavaScript message boxes
· Remove web-branding and other scripts tacked on by "free" web providers.
· Convert most ads and banner pictures into simple text links
· Freeze all animated gifs
· Make blinking text appear as bold instead
· Remove slow web counters
· Stop web pages from "auto-refreshing"
· Prevent pages from changing fonts
· Get rid of or replace web page background images
· Protect against getting "trapped" inside someone else's frames!
· Make all frames resizable
· Close top or bottom frame banner windows
· Protect against getting "trapped" inside someone else's frames!
· Make background MIDI songs play only when you choose.
· Remove status bar scroll-texts
· Remove "dynamic" HTML from pages
· Disguise your browser's identity and version from JavaScripts
· Remove style sheets
· Un-hide URLs when the mouse is over a link
· Disable frames or tables altogether
· Change or delete cookies
· Change your browser's user-agent and other identifying fields
· Hide where you've been previously from inquisitive web servers