Other articles by Henon

• Closing the Gap Between IEnumerator and IEnumerable (20 April 2008)
• Asynchronous Events (19 December 2007)
• Design For Reuse (7 December 2007)
• Preventing Recursive Events in C# (21 November 2007)
• Visitor Pattern (21 November 2007)
• Navigating in Exception Stack Traces in Visual C# (9 November 2007)
• Ruby-like instance variable syntax in C# (30 October 2007)
• Streaming between Threads or Processes (30 October 2007)
• The Future of Ruby (6 August 2007)

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• C# Knowhow
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Browse Ad Free with Google Chrome

Everyone agrees that Google's new browser called Chrome is really innovative, fast and cool. But as soon as you try it out, you will hate it for happily displaying all the banners, ads, overlays etc. Not blocking ads is, of course, the full intent of Google and possibly one of the main reasons for introducing a new browser instead of further supporting Firefox because they may have noticed that their ads don't reach firefox users who almost all are using the popular Mozilla extension AdBlock (Plus).

Loving the new concepts of Chrome and also being stunned by its well designed user interface, I have looked around for adblocking support. Here is what I found out:

• Google does not deliver an adblocking plugin for Chrome.
• forget AdMuncher it's not free.
• forget Privoxy it's way too complicated
• forget HostsMan it doesn't work anyway

I strongly suggest you to use ----> BFilter <------ . It's totally painless to install, no setup required and it works instantly (after adjusting the browser's proxy settings). Knows a lot of adservers and works like a charm even for german ads. Adding rules is straight forward, as we are used to with AdblockPlus.

OK, here is what to do:

• install BFilter
• set Chrome's proxy settings to 127.0.0.1 port 8080 (via Options -> Under the Hood -> Change Proxy Settings -> LAN Settings -> Check "Use a proxy server for your LAN")
• enjoy Chrome adfree!

--Henon 11:48, 11 September 2008 (CEST)