Bug 13859 - Webkit crashes on launch with PithHelmet installed
Summary: Webkit crashes on launch with PithHelmet installed
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New Bugs (show other bugs)
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.4
: P2 Blocker
Assignee: Nobody
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Reported: 2007-05-24 10:01 PDT by Brandon Petersen
Modified: 2007-05-24 10:35 PDT (History)
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Description Brandon Petersen 2007-05-24 10:01:54 PDT 
PithHelmet is a shareware ad blocking plugin. It works fine with Safari. You must quit safari/webkit to install, but when you try to reopen webkit, it immediately shows an error message.

I have contacted the developer and he doesn't know much about webkit, and doesn't plan on making the program compatible. You can contact him here if you need to: Mike Solomon <mike-web@culater.net>.
Be nice, he doesn't want any spam.
Comment 1 David Kilzer (:ddkilzer) 2007-05-24 10:35:10 PDT 
PithHelmet (and similar software like SafariStand and Saft) rely on internal APIs that don't change.  WebKit has changed quite a bit since Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4.x), so crashes are not unlikely.

Mike will have to update PithHelmet to make it work again; there's really no other way to fix this.  Thus, closing this bug as RESOLVED/INVALID.