Sample Google Chrome Extensions (Chromium Developer Documentation)
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#2I'll ask the question on everyone's minds. Can an ad-blocking extension be made?
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#3Who else thinks they should get the Mac version out before spending time on this stuff...
Re: Sample Google Chrome Extensions (Chromium Developer Documentation)
#4I'll ask the question on everyone's minds. Can an ad-blocking extension be made?
Privoxy is pretty easy to set up, and works with any browser.
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#5I'll ask the question on everyone's minds. Can an ad-blocking extension be made?
Adsweep (almost similar functionality as Adblock) is a greasemonkey script that works well for chrome. They have also released a extension for chrome.
http://www.adsweep.org
Re: Sample Google Chrome Extensions (Chromium Developer Documentation)
#6I'll ask the question on everyone's minds. Can an ad-blocking extension be made?
Adsweep (almost similar functionality as Adblock) is a greasemonkey script that works well for chrome. They have also released a extension for chrome. http://www.adsweep.org
Thanks. I took a look and the Chrome extension is basically the same as the greasemonkey script. Does anyone know if this is less efficient than the way Adblock Plus does it? If so, is it possible to do it more efficiently with a Chrome extension?
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#7Who else thinks they should get the Mac version out before spending time on this stuff...
If they do, it'll just die because it's not Safari. It makes sense to build the functionality on a platform where people are tolerant of incremental improvements.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Adsweep (almost similar functionality as Adblock) is a greasemonkey script that works well for chrome. They have also released a extension for chrome. http://www.adsweep.org
Thanks. I took a look and the Chrome extension is basically the same as the greasemonkey script. Does anyone know if this is less efficient than the way Adblock Plus does it? If so, is it possible to do it more efficiently with a Chrome extension?
Yes, AdBlock is more efficient because it doesn't load the ads at all while Chrome/greasemonkey load and hide them. No, I don't think it can be more efficient because chrome extensions like greasemonkey scripts cannot modify the page before it is loaded.
I may be wrong, I had only a cursory look at the technology.
Re: Sample Google Chrome Extensions (Chromium Developer Documentation)
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks. I took a look and the Chrome extension is basically the same as the greasemonkey script. Does anyone know if this is less efficient than the way Adblock Plus does it? If so, is it possible to do it more efficiently with a Chrome extension?
Yes, AdBlock is more efficient because it doesn't load the ads at all while Chrome/greasemonkey load and hide them. No, I don't think it can be more efficient because chrome extensions like greasemonkey scripts cannot modify the page before it is loaded. I may be wrong, I had only a cursory look at the technology.
Damn, that's what I was afraid of. Thanks.
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#10Who else thinks they should get the Mac version out before spending time on this stuff...
They are working heavily on the Mac version and it is quite usable now. I have written about the mac version of chrome here
http://www.manu-j.com/blog/download-updated-native-google-ch...
The post will give you an idea of what is working in the mac version as well as pre alpha builds to play with.