Download! [Updated 10-14-04]
Get it HERE! (zip 204kb) No installer, just use the install instructions below.

Thx
To CJ for testing! Also, Grypen and the rest of the people on the forum who have been helping out in my absence.

Changes
Well, basicly a small update... Only started making changes last week or so.. lol

1. Gmail works
2. Y! Mail works
3. Google Filters Updated (The main change.. One thing to note. It may look better in Opera and Firefox. )
4. Various bug fixes from forum threads. (Not done yet tho)
5. Small fixes to Various Filters. (Heh )
6. 2 or 3 new filters. (Marked with [test])
7. Small update to the pop-up blocker
8. Started adding filter author names

Configs
I've included JD_Basic_A, JD_Extra_A and JD_Advanced_A.

Install
NOTE: You do not need to delete any of the original Proxomitron files. Nor will any original files need to be overwritten.

1. Place "JD_Basic_A.cfg", "JD_Extra_A.cfg" and "JD_Advanced_A.cfg" in your Proxomitron directory.

2. Place the "JD_Lists_Alpha" folder, in your "Lists" folder.

3. Place the "JD_HTML_Alpha" folder, in your "HTML" folder.

4. Load your config of choice. (Double click the Proxomitron tray icon, File -> Load Config File)

- Option #1: JD_Basic_A.cfg (My attempt at a "set it and forget it" config. The settings are the same as when I install Proxo for family and friends.)
- Option #1: JD_Extra_A.cfg (A slight step above Basic, a few more security type filters are enabled.)
- Option #2: JD_Advanced_A.cfg (My daily config, minus some cosmetic filters I use..)

Optional: Drop Killed.html into your "HTML" folder. This will overwrite your default, so make a backup.

~JD

One more note..

The filters..

"User Text Size: Small"
"User Text Size: Medium - %"
"User Text Size: Large - %"
"User Text Size: X-Large"

Are not for real use. They are just test filters, ignore them.

Use ...

"User Text Size: Medium - Fixed"

or..

"User Text Size: Large - Fixed"

EDIT: I should explain. Along with the two above filters.. You would also need to enable...

"Text Sizes - CSS {2.d}"
"Text Sizes - FONT {2.d}"
"Text Sizes - SMALL {2.d}"

~JD

Thanks, will give them a whirl!

Max

OK, I've integrated them into my set and am road testing them now. I've found a couple of small bugs so far:

1. The Tracking Links filter works much better now than it did before (JD probably knows me as the Tracking Link king after my frequent emails to him to refine them!! ) but I've noticed that the old Tracking Link popup text doesn't appear next to the link anymore, but rather displays object Event top left of the whole page. Also, it no longer changes the background colour, though that's not a problem unless the modified link doesn't work and you're trying to figure out why.

EDIT: Now they seem to be working properly, after I disabled Kye-U's security pack for testing purposes. For now I think I'll leave Kye-U's pack in, but disabled by default, so those who want to use them can. I will still tweak the timing on the popup slightly (longer delay before popup) but other than that they appear to be fine.

2. The new Meta Refresh filter (the modified one >10secs anyway) causes the entire page to go display:none when really I think you're only trying to show the refresh time and then hide it. CNN is a good one to test this on. I put my older version back in and it worked fine as before:

It's up! Grab it via my sig and please read the forum topic I started on it for more info and cautions.

thanks very much both of you for continuing work on this. i think there's lots more people using them, e.g. i've been following for months but only signed up yesterday. keep it up please!

JD,

is it possible to revert Google to it's earlier CSS scheme or provide for a more default look (while retaining the new functionality such as thumbnails, preview and the backdrop alternating colours)?

Perhaps a simple option like your Thumbnail/no thumbnail option (number 7)?

It works fine, it's just that Google is so well known that changing it markedly may have adverse effects on people's acceptance of your filters because it makes things "different".

Anyway, just a suggestion!

yep grypen i have to agree with that, the new colour scheme isn't bad but an option would be even better

also interesting work on the new flash hider buttons! can't decide if it's better yet, will let you know

theyipper, nice find. I hate when I do that when I duplicate filters. lol

Well, I get this error when I try to run any of these.

Edited to add that I would love it if we could have a choice to have the old Google if we prefer. I'm using Firefox and Mozilla. I'm sure some people will love the changes but it is very hard for me to read now (the text is grey and pale green! no black text!!), plus, I don't like preview windows of any type. I never use any sort of preview. I also don't use thumbnails. With the preview there and the other things that are added, the page is full with very few hits. I like a lot of hits on one page and I like it lean and mean not cluttered as it is in the new way (to me). (I also actually like the Google ads on Google. I don't want the Google strip ads on other sites, but they are useful on Google itself and I get them with your old extra config). I think you will have a lot of users not upgrading if Google no longer looks like Google. I wouldn't mind in the least if you changed Yahoo, CNN or just about any site except Google and DSLReports.

Could you kindly point me to where I can turn off gif animation to this site? The smilies are flickering away. That will trigger a migraine. I recall you excluded this site and dslr from the no gif animation in your Oct 2003 set. That was in trusted, but I don't see trusted in this new alpha extra config.

I haven't looked at any thing else in the new configs yet. It is great to see you working on the alpha sets. Thanks for all the time you put into these.

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Hmmm... CJ said he got the same error, but it disappeared after a reload of the config. Not sure.. I just tested the files, I can't reproduce that error..

Is the log file in...

<Prox Dir>\Lists\JD_Lists_Alpha\Config\log.txt

What OS, what program did ya use to unzip it?

As for google, working on the filters. Most everything should be optional.I have the filters done. But, I need to work on the CSS files.

Here's what I have so far...

Thoughts? I know it's kinda hard to say anything without seeing the filters. But y'all should be able to get the idea.

~JD

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In Proxomitron we trust.

That layout of Google filters is excellent IMHO. Look forward to testing them.

I too saw the log file thing once, but never again. Perhaps something to do with browser or Prox caching? It went away and never came back so it's not really an issue. Could have been me integrating both filter sets and accidentally forgetting to include log.txt.... who knows?