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rexineffect

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Registered: 2014-02-16

Posts: 48

Request - Adblock for Chromium Browser

Firefox has it, its called Adblock and I would like it for chromium if someone wants to do it, or if someone wants to help me figure out how to do it.

If its already there, sorry but I have looked and didn't see it.

thanks. I really would love to learn how if someone is feeling nice....or even pointed in the right direction.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Request - Adblock for Chromium Browser

Have you tried any chromium addons ?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta … idom?hl=en
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta … cddilifddb

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Request - Adblock for Chromium Browser

Firefox has it, its called Adblock

Just so you're clear, Firefox doesn't have Adblock by default - it's an add-on, just the same as with Chromium.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Request - Adblock for Chromium Browser

Maybe he meant that there are packages form firefox' adblock and I see no such packages for chromium.

beardedlinuxgeek

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Registered: 2012-09-17

Posts: 32

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Re: Request - Adblock for Chromium Browser

Maybe he meant that there are packages form firefox' adblock and I see no such packages for chromium.

That would be an odd request; I was surprised to find several firefox extensions in the community repo including adblock-plus, noscript, and a Russian spell checker.

Why would you want your browser extensions in the form of a package? They can already automatically update and being written in javascript/css/html makes them de facto open source. Why go through the bother of maintaining a package? I guess it could make life easier for an IT department.... but I really can't imagine Arch being the distro choice for a company or university computer lab.

OP, I'm really curious why you want this.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,889

Re: Request - Adblock for Chromium Browser

beardedlinuxgeek,
think about an arch computer used by several people (like a family) .
by installing the adblock-plus, noscript etc pacakges, they'll be present & active for ALL users.

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the_shiver

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Registered: 2013-03-27

Posts: 130

Re: Request - Adblock for Chromium Browser

i was under the impression chrome/chromium has support for multiple profiles (read: users) http://dev.chromium.org/user-experience/multi-profiles

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Request - Adblock for Chromium Browser

Does it mean each user would have to install it independently? If so, making it available for all users has its advantages.

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,307

Re: Request - Adblock for Chromium Browser

Does it mean each user would have to install it independently? If so, making it available for all users has its advantages.

If you want all users to automatically have an extension, add a special file to /usr/share/google-chrome/extensions/ that contains the chrome webstore update url. Then chrome automatically installs and updates the extension for each profile. If a user does not want it he can still uninstall it.
http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/ … extensions

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rexineffect

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Registered: 2014-02-16

Posts: 48

Re: Request - Adblock for Chromium Browser

Turns out i would love the have that other extension, when you double click a word it defines it right there. not sure if you ever had an ipad, if you double clcik a word on safari it comes up with a little box, define|copy. to choose from.

how hard would it be for me to make some of chromes extensions worth with linux myself? is it hard? if i made one for arch would it work with gentoo?

can someone point me in right direction?

thanks

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,307

Re: Request - Adblock for Chromium Browser

Here:

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta … obmjgjcoja

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