What is SpeedManiac?

Ever wonder how much those ads slow down your internet connection? A lot. SpeedManiac can help you get some sanity back by blocking ads, large graphics, flash animations and javascripts, especially if you have a modem connection. When you replace some ads with a white space some web pages load in half the time they used to.

By replacing some ads with a blank space some web pages will load many seconds faster for you, and if you change your mind and want to load a web page in full simply hold down the option or shift key while the page loads. It is that simple. Option-Command-. (Period) also toggles filtering on and off for your convenience.

SpeedManiac is a highly optimized, lean HTTP proxy that accelerates your internet browser by blocking ads. All web browsers can benefit from the extra bandwidth. For some time trials please see the end of this document.

Download SpeedManiac for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 10.1 up to Mac OS 10.5

Compatibility notes

Software Requirements

SpeedManiac is for Mac OS X 10.1 or above and it is used with a web browser that supports proxy connections, such as most modern browsers, Safari, Internet Explorer, Mail, etc.

Features

Option to block well known ad sites. We have almost 1600 sites.

Option to block graphics of a certain size (1 - 30K) if not already loaded.

Option to bllock flash animations.

Option to block all graphics (useful in certain cases).

Run at login.

Enable/Disable filtering with Option-Command-. (period)

Automatic configuration.

Emulating this? It could probably run under: QEMU