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AdSweep Ad Blocker Gets Easier Chrome Installation [Downloads]

Posted on April 3, 2009
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Previously mentioned ad blocker AdSweep has updated its home page and bundled its user extension to make installation on Google Chrome much more simple.

If you’re using the “Developer Channel” version of Google Chrome (enabled by downloading and running the User Channel Switcher), AdSweep has been bundled up as a single .crx file you can install from the Windows command line, like so:

chrome.exe --install-extension="c:pathtoAdSweep.crx"

In addition, the developers have given a lot more space to explaining AdSweep’s installation on other versions of Chrome, along with other the other browsers supported (Firefox, Opera, Safari, and even IE7, with some other add-ons). It’s highly similar to the Firefox-only, and seriously popular AdBlock Plus.

Of course, the site you’re reading right now is advertising-supported, and we’d ask you to keep them displayed if you dig what we post here. Luckily, AdSweep, like most blocker programs, is fairly easy to tweak by editing a single long list of sites and servers not accepted. It’s a free download, works wherever one of its supported browsers does. Thanks Paulo!





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Better Gmail for Google Chrome [Lifehacker Code]

Posted on March 23, 2009
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Windows only: Better Gmail for Google Chrome is a compilation of user scripts designed to enhance your Gmail experience—and to make it easy, we've tested and bundled them together in one easy download.

Better Gmail for Chrome is inspired by the well-known and grown-up Better Gmail extension for Firefox. Like the original, we've packaged up a bunch of scripts that we've either tested successfully or modified to make them work correctly—since Chrome doesn't have full Greasemonkey support we had to make a few modifications to some of them.

Better Gmail for Chrome

Updated: 03/23/2009
License: All user scripts are copyright their original authors and maintain their original license as specified by their original author.
Installation: Installing Better Gmail for Chrome requires first using our guide to enabling user scripts in Chrome. Once you have completed those steps, you can download the Better Gmail for Chrome zip file.

Open up the zip file containing the user scripts, and copy the ones you want to enable into the appropriate User Scripts folder for your version of Windows:

Windows XP: %userprofile%Local SettingsApplication DataGoogleChromeUser DataDefault
Windows Vista: %userprofile%AppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser DataDefault


Refresh Gmail, and you are done. If you are having issues getting it to work, make sure that you follow the steps to enable user scripts.

Features:

Add Row Highlights-Highlight message rows as you roll over them:

Attachment icons—Adds attachment filetype icons:

Show Message Details-Display the full details of the top messages in a conversation:

Folders4Gmail-Lists labels in a folder-like hierarchy:

Hide Spam Count-Hides Gmail’s Spam message count:
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Credits: Better Gmail is a compilation of user scripts written by several Greasemonkey scripters. The full list of Better Gmail user scripts and their authors is as follows:

Release History:





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Google Chrome Extensions Are Happening in the Latest Beta [Google Chrome]

Posted on March 18, 2009
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Yesterday’s announcement of the new Google Chrome Beta brought with it some good news for Firefox extension lovers eager to move to Chrome: A first glimpse of extension compatibility.

The Chrome Developer Documentation has released a guide to creating and installing Chrome extensions in their most simple form. Right now the “extensions” aren’t really much to speak of, and the process of installing an extension still seems very much like running Chrome with user scripts, but it’s great to see that they’re making some progress on the extensions front. As Google Operating System is quick to point out, these “extensions” are in fact “just fancy wrappers for user scripts, but there are plans to make them more useful by exposing browser features and allowing developers to create interfaces.” Hit the link below for a quick guide to installing your first (not terribly useful) Chrome extension if you’re eager to try it out. (The extension in the example just replaces Google’s homepage logo with another picture.)

Chrome Extension HOWTO [Chromium Developer Documentation via Google Operating System]





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Get a Pre-Built Chromium Browser in Ubuntu [Downloads]

Posted on March 17, 2009
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Google’s Chrome browser comes from the open-source Chromium project, but it’s not an easy install on Linux. One friendly Ubuntu user makes it much easier with a repository hosting a shaky-but-working Chromium build.

Actually, it may not work for everyone, or at least work the first time, as this editor found out. But it does install with a single command and, if it works, browses the basic non-Flash web pretty snappily. The up-top tab bar, crash detection, and a host of other features currently available in Windows aren’t there yet, but it’s a native, non-Wine-based build, and it’s updated daily with the latest code from the Chromium project. Follow the instructions at either link below for help installing and launching Chromium on your system, and tell us what you think (or how far you got, or how you fixed it) in the comments. Screenshot via Tombuntu.





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An Exhaustive Look at the Web Browsers of Today and Tomorrow [Browser Wars]

Posted on March 6, 2009
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Maximum PC takes an in-depth look at the stable and beta releases of the big names in the browser wars, rounding up in all 9 incarnations of browser’s competing to be your gateway to the web (Firefox 3 and 3.1 beta, Internet Explorer 7 and 8 beta, Opera 9.6 and 10 beta, Safari 3 and 4 beta, and Google Chrome). We recently walked you through our browser speed tests, putting the latest and greatest browsers through the paces, but if you’re looking for a more in-depth examination, the MaxPC article is seven pages full of charts and graphs thoroughly evaluating each offering. [Browser Battle: Nine Browsers of Today and Tomorrow Compared]





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Google Chrome Development Builds Get Full-Screen Mode [Google Chrome]

Posted on February 27, 2009
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Windows only: The latest cutting-edge developer build of Google Chrome adds a new full-screen mode accessible through the F11 key. There's no UI—just a full-screen browser window with a scrollbar, so you'll have to take it out of full-screen mode to enter a new URL (though you can open a new tab with Ctrl+T and search from there).

You’ll need to download the Google Chrome Channel Chooser and switch to the Dev channel to get the latest updates if you’re brave enough to deal with potential problems of an experimental build. [via]





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How Can I Sync Bookmarks Across All Browsers? [Ask Lifehacker]

Posted on February 20, 2009
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Dear Lifehacker,
How can I sync favorites in Opera, IE7, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox? Is there any way to do it, beside manually export everyone and then painfully editing the HTML?

Best Regards from a Daily Reader

Dear Daily Reader,

For Firefox and Internet Explorer, at least, we’ll whole-heartedly recommend the newly IE-friendly and Safari-friendly Foxmarks. It doesn’t have the password support of its Firefox iterations, but it does do an admirably swift job of keeping your bookmarks and toolbar favorites synced up in the background.

As for Chrome and Opera, well, that’s a trickier task. If you’re using all four browsers equally, you might want to consider using the long-standing, well-tested Delicious as your primary bookmarking tool, since its accessible from anywhere, keeps everything in sync with or without your action, and has handy bookmark bar tools for reading and saving bookmarks from any browser. When you import your bookmarks from any browser, they’ll be set to private by default, saving you a whole bunch of work. The minor pain is that new bookmarks can’t be set to private by default (correct me if I’m wrong, readers!), but it’s truly the only way to keep your bookmarks in sync without a lot of import/export/save shuffling.

Unless, of course, one of our readers have a smart solution for shuttling or syncing each browser's HTML bookmark files around—maybe an AutoHotKey script? A clever use of syncing tool Dropbox, similar to how we utilize it as the ultimate password syncer?

Peace and soul,

Lifehacker





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Run Silverlight Plug-In on Google Chrome [Google Chrome]

Posted on February 20, 2009
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For those Google Chrome users who need access to one or two Silverlight sites, a Microsoft developer offers a file-tweaking work-around to get access to certain sites.

The Chrome/Silverlight hack requires grabbing a few .js files normally intended for Silverlight developers and tweaking them to have Silverlight sites accept and provide content to Chrome. By downloading the .js files and modifying them a bit, you should be able to access, as the developer rates it, “most” Silverlight apps, but your mileage will certainly vary.





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AdSweep Blocks Ads in Google Chrome and Opera [Downloads]

Posted on January 28, 2009
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AdSweep is a user script that blocks a good number of ads on some major websites, and works from a simple file you plug into your Opera or Google Chrome files.

The instructions for installing the single AdSweep.user.js file in your Opera or Chrome browser are laid out step-by-step on AdSweep’s main page. Opera users have a mostly graphical process, while Chrome users will have to check their version and then make a few tweaks to enable user scripts. The site notes that AdSweep will work for Firefox as well, along with Safari and Internet Explorer with some third-party add-ons, but each of those platforms has their own ad-blocking solutions, like Firefox’s uber-popular Adblock Plus. Chrome users can also use a proxy solution like the previously detailed Privoxy to get annoying ads out of their way.

We have to say it—the site you're reading right now is, of course, supported by advertising, and we'd ask that you keep them displayed if you dig what we do here. But AdSweep is pretty easily tweaked with, since it's just one file, and can be used for blocking of extremely annoying ads. It's a free download, works where Opera and Chrome can install. Thanks, Saša!






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Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta Now Available, Supports Profile Switching, User Scripts [Beta Beat]

Posted on January 8, 2009
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Google Chrome 2.0 is now available in pre-beta form from the folks at GOOG for anyone anxious enough to keep up with the cutting edge releases of Chrome. The 2.0 release boasts several fixes and updated features, including support for user scripts (à la Greasemonkey but not yet full Greasemonkey compatibility), easy profile switching, form autofill (à la every browser in the world), and full page zooming. You'll need to download the Google Chrome Channel Chooser and join the Dev channel if you’re ready to get started on the 2.0 path. [via]






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