"Linux: If a lack of third-party plug-in support (i.e. Flash) kept you from trying out Chrome on your Linux system, then avoid no longer. The 'early developer version' now supports many plug-ins, and they seem to work pretty well. You'll need to add --enable-plugins to your Chrome shortcut's command line operation to get the 'buggy' plug-in support, but it seems worth the hassle, as YouTube videos are playing relatively stable and smooth. Google's updated their alpha-level Chrome builds to include the newest start page tweaks as well, and it's generally a browser worth checking out, even if a few standard settings and convenience items are still missing."
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Member since:2005-10-14
You can have an ad-blocker. You can use the extension or script version of AdSweep: http://www.adsweep.org/
Member since:2008-07-03
Any confirmation that this actually works on Chromium 3 under Linux?
I adapted the directions the best that I could, but could not get it to work. Tried it as a user script and an extension.
chrome://extensions tells me this when I tried to load it as an extension:
"Errors
Could not load extension from '~/.config/chromium/User Scripts/AdSweep.crx'. Manifest is missing or invalid.
Bad version number"
EDIT: I got it to work, I put the script version in "~/.config/chromium/Default/User Scripts/" and started it with --enable-user-scripts. I didn't put it in Default the first few times I tried. It is pretty crappy though, you see the ads when they load, then it hides them. So you aren't saving any bandwidth or rendering time, from what I can tell, it is considerably slower.
Edited 2009-08-02 06:24 UTC
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2005-11-02
Yes it works fine for me on 32 bit Ubuntu Hardy LTS, Chromium 3.0.197.0 (0) and Flash 10,0,32,18. But now I need a flashblocker as well as an adblocker plugin. So I guess I will run it without plugins enabled.