Most browsers available on the Internet nowadays come with built-in ad and pop-up blockers, so why use a different application for this purpose? Because Ad Muncher has so many features that it's undoubtedly able to make the whole browsing experience a lot more pleasant.
The application is able to filter website data and block unwanted content, regardless if we're referring to advertisements, links, images, sounds or various scripts.
Ad Muncher runs separately but integrates perfectly into most browsers, including Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, creating a special right click menu option to block content on the go.
Right clicking on a website gives you the power to block a given link, an image, a whole frame or disable filters on the entire page. In addition, there's a special option to report the page and thus help the developer make the app better in the next releases.
The configuration screen on the other hand lets you remove music and sound, background images, colored scroll bars, bookmark scripts, automatic reloads, window resizing, browser status bar changes and even address icons.
Of course, you can configure the way the app handles advertisements, so there's an option to leave small text-only adverts alone and replace removed images with a description of the image.
As for the popups, Ad Muncher blocks them all, including automatic javascript alerts and messenger service popups, showing you a notice in the browser status bar when a new popup is blocked.
Ad Muncher is impressively easy to use, but it has so many features that you may spend even a half an hour setting it up. But after that you will definitely know that no advertisement or popup will ever see daylight on your computer.
So all in all, given how many features it boasts, Ad Muncher comes with a fair price and it's just the right way to improve the browsing experience. It's free to try though, so why not giving it a try right now?
Limitations:
· 30-days trial
What's New in This Release:
· Fixed possible loss of licensing details when retrieving updates.
· Vastly improved handling of external content on excluded pages so that excluded pages should rarely need extra filters to exclude them completely from filtering.
· Made browser extension compatible with recent Firefox releases.
· More improvements to exclusion handling and helper script embedding.
· The "about" tab of the configuration window now shows the last four characters of the registration code to help users see which code is in use.
· Improved handling of MP4 videos.
· Fix to the beta update check frequency.
· Improvements to mutex handling in the config code.
· Fixed crashes under Windows XP.
· Finished implementing a new toolbar system for Ad Muncher. This system displays a toolbar inside filtered pages whenever the shift key is held down, or when a popup is blocked or other information needs to be displayed. This system has replaced the old browser extension system and means we don't need a different version of th...