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While I'm sure MS would like you to think that Internet Explorer is the ultimate in browsing the web, there are competitors out there and Netcaptor is yet another one of them. This browser has tabs (allowing you to have multiple pages open at the same time and to easily switch between them), pop-up suppression, and URL blocking (perfect for blocking everything from *.doubleclick.com). Check out the site for its other features. Netcaptor comes in two version, one free and one you pay for. Note that the free version comes with ads and the pay version costs $29.95USD.
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I have used Netcaptor - I purchased a copy of it back around the middle of 2003. I will say that the SWREG people that Stylesoft uses to process payments have some problems; I had trouble because I tried to use Discover, which they said they supported, and when I found out that would take several days to process, I gave them a VISA number. They not only emailed my VISA number to me because of how they told me to send it, they charged both cards. Eventually I got the second charge refunded. I had a bit of email conversation with the developer over this issue.
In early December I discovered that Netcaptor ceased to work. After 8-10 days of email with their tech support people they turned me over to the developer, who said I'd been refunded the purchase so I had to buy a license. Eventually I got him to realize I'd been double charged and had only one refunded.
A couple of things bugged me about this:
1) My key could be canceled/disabled remotely.
2) They didn't even have the courtesy to email me about the issue before killing my key (and I do mean killing, they had to issue me a new one).
In the mean time, being used to tabbed browsing, I had downloaded and was using MyIE2 (www.myie2.com). I've stayed with this even though I can now use Netcaptor, mostly because development is more active and there seems to be no possibility of having it disabled (it's free instead of shareware).
BTW, MyIE2 can read the Captorgroups that NetCaptor creates...
Posted by: Gary Berg | January 13, 2004 09:06 AM
I have used Netcaptor - I purchased a copy of it back around the middle of 2003. I will say that the SWREG people that Stylesoft uses to process payments have some problems; I had trouble because I tried to use Discover, which they said they supported, and when I found out that would take several days to process, I gave them a VISA number. They not only emailed my VISA number to me because of how they told me to send it, they charged both cards. Eventually I got the second charge refunded. I had a bit of email conversation with the developer over this issue.
In early December I discovered that Netcaptor ceased to work. After 8-10 days of email with their tech support people they turned me over to the developer, who said I'd been refunded the purchase so I had to buy a license. Eventually I got him to realize I'd been double charged and had only one refunded.
A couple of things bugged me about this:
1) My key could be canceled/disabled remotely.
2) They didn't even have the courtesy to email me about the issue before killing my key (and I do mean killing, they had to issue me a new one).
In the mean time, being used to tabbed browsing, I had downloaded and was using MyIE2 (www.myie2.com). I've stayed with this even though I can now use Netcaptor, mostly because development is more active and there seems to be no possibility of having it disabled (it's free instead of shareware).
BTW, MyIE2 can read the Captorgroups that NetCaptor creates...
Posted by: Gary Berg | January 13, 2004 09:06 AM