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From: DenverD on 18 Feb 2010 01:52 WLS wrote: > I like Adblock Plus and hope something like it comes along for Chrome. i'd recommend you not hold your breath...waiting! the difference between the folks building Chrome and the folks building Firefox is one works for the corporation/share holders, and the other works for fun (and us). Chrome is built to serve advertisements and the company bottom line.. Firefox is built to serve us naked womens...(right houghi?) -- DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (20090817), KDE 3.5.7 "release 72-11", openSUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.19-0.4-default #1 SMP i686 athlon
From: WLS on 18 Feb 2010 09:04 On 02/18/2010 05:27 AM, houghi wrote: > WLS wrote: >> I like that Chrome allows me to customize the CNN homepage to my >> location and automatically displays my local news and weather on the >> MSNBC homepage. I can't get them to work in Firefox no matter what I do. > > Not sure why I would want that, so I have never looked for it. I can > however change the layout of sites in such a way that click-tru websites > (like toms hardware) become readable. And that is more then just > removing the adds. > >> I like Adblock Plus and hope something like it comes along for Chrome. > > Google sells ads, so it will be a while till that happens. > > houghi Ya think! ;) LOL!
From: Van Chocstraw on 18 Feb 2010 16:58 houghi wrote: > WLS wrote: >>>> I like Adblock Plus and hope something like it comes along for Chrome. >>> >>> Google sells ads, so it will be a while till that happens. >> >> Ya think! ;) LOL! > > Not sure how easy it is for external people to add things, so it is not > unpossible. > > houghi Oops, found a problem with CHrome. If you have more than one account at say AOL or gmail, it offers to remember them all but is brain dead when you go back, unlike Firefox that brings up all the account names. Chrome offers not even one. Brain dead. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net ---
From: Van Chocstraw on 18 Feb 2010 19:20 Van Chocstraw wrote: > houghi wrote: >> WLS wrote: >>>>> I like Adblock Plus and hope something like it comes along for Chrome. >>>> >>>> Google sells ads, so it will be a while till that happens. >>> >>> Ya think! ;) LOL! >> >> Not sure how easy it is for external people to add things, so it is not >> unpossible. >> >> houghi > > Oops, found a problem with CHrome. If you have more than one account at > say AOL or gmail, it offers to remember them all but is brain dead when > you go back, unlike Firefox that brings up all the account names. Chrome > offers not even one. Brain dead. > > --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net --- Another problem: Loads you down with tracking cookies. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net ---
From: Shmuel Metz on 18 Feb 2010 21:15
In <4b7ce3b7$0$36577$edfadb0f(a)dtext01.news.tele.dk>, on 02/18/2010 at 07:52 AM, DenverD <spam.trap(a)SOMEwhere.dk> said: >Firefox is built to serve us naked womens...(right houghi?) Send in the clowns! -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org |