Most wanted plugins thread

[Charlie]

OK my favorite thing in Firefox is the ability to block unwanted ads in web pages. Can someone do it for chrome?

Thanks

[imported_Rob]

I would THINK you would be able to. It is Open Source so I don't see how they COULDN'T make it. But its interesting since in browser advertising display is the only way Google makes money.

[Charlie]

Community choices?

[Charlie]

We need a gmail extension as well.

[ChromeGuy]

I give it a week, maybe less, before the Adblock Plus guys have an add-on working with Chrome. Honestly, that's the only thing holding me back from using Chrome full time right now. The web is a messy place with ads everywhere

[Charlie]

Yea I hope so. I have been using it fully right now due to the speed it has.

[imported_Rob]

Ad Blocker bothers me because sometimes the pages don't render properly because of the removed area... or it just straight up looks funky. Plus, sometimes I find advertisements useful... Google HAS done a great job at providing contextual relevance with ads.

Regardless, I digress... I know a lot of people who love that plugin and its probably one of the more desired plugins right off the bat.

[nyfael]

So this is a list of plugins that I want and need before I can use Google Chrome as my browser, as web developer I LOVE this browser, but if I can't have these tools I'm still using Firefox.

Need:
HTML Validator
MeasureIT
Firebug
Web Developer

Want:
Google Toolbar
IE Tab
Colorzilla

[Vis]

A solution to this for now is http://www.privoxy.org/

Took about 2 minutes to configure.

1.) Install Privoxy
2) Click on the Wrench icon in Chrome in the upper right corner
3.) Choose options>Under The Hood>Change proxy settings
4.) A windows box pops up, choose LAN settings (at least this is what it's called in Vista)
5.) Check off "Proxy settings" and in the address setting add127.0.0.1 and in the port 8118
6.) If you have the option, you can also check off "Bypass proxy for local settings"
7.) Click "Ok", close chrome and restart it. I've had ZERO ads.

Tada. Enjoy.

[Charlie]

ad blocker

gmail notify (similar to FF3 gmail add on)

pdf download

bbcode xtra

email this!