Overview
What is Pop-Up Zapper?
Pop-Up Zapper is a shareware application for Mac that helps you by "zapping" away those annoying pop-up windows when you surf the web and can filter out large graphics to speed up your internet.
In depth
A closer look at Pop-Up Zapper
Pop-Up Zapper for OS X can also filter out unwanted large graphics which slow down your internet connection.
For popups, Pop-Up Zapper watches the work of your web browser (IE) and when it identifies a pop up window (or pop-under) it makes it invisible to you and then closes it. Occasionally you may see a window flash really fast before it is zapped. You can look at Pop-Up Zapper's counter on its Dock icon to see that it is working. Pop-Up Zapper 2.0 makes popup windows invisible to you and it requires Internet Explorer.
For filtering, Pop-Up Zapper acts as a 'Proxy' for your web browser or mail program, and can be told to leave out flash animations, Javascripts, graphics over 4K in size, all graphics or a combination of those options. Choosing to only load selected graphics can improve your web browsing speed substantially, specially on a modem connection. If the option key is down while loading all filtering is off. Works with IE, Safari, Mail, etc.
Verdict
Should you download Pop-Up Zapper?
Pop-Up Zapper runs on
Mac OS 10.1
and is available under the
Shareware
license
— the installer is 962 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
General.
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At a glance
Pop-Up Zapper specifications
- Publisher
-
Ricardo Batista
- Last updated
- Apr 28, 2026
- License
- Shareware
- Operating system
- Mac OS 10.1
- File size
- 962 KB
- Price
- Free
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- 502
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