Weblog entry #57 for Utumno

Plugins for Google Chrome

Posted by Utumno on Tue 8 Sep 2009 at 16:40

Well, now that Google Chrome is available on Debian:

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free main

is mighty fast and already has a FlashBlock plugin:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46673

and something that claims to work like AdBlock+ :

http://www.adsweep.org/

I am jumping ship...

The reason? I cannot believe Firefox, or any other browser for that matter, would use a single process for everything, including external plugins like flash or, God forbid, Java. That means if one of your 10 open tabs is launching a Java applet, which tries to connect to some URL, which is temporarily unavailable - the whole browser will hang for minutes!

In Chrome, that never happens.

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Re: Plugins for Google Chrome

Posted by Anonymous (201.43.xx.xx) on Tue 8 Sep 2009 at 17:31

Isn't adsweep development stopped?

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Re: Plugins for Google Chrome

Posted by Anonymous (77.117.xx.xx) on Fri 11 Sep 2009 at 11:51

Are you using the Google Chrome browser, which tracks what you view, or the modified version that doesn't?

btw adsweep is no more

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Re: Plugins for Google Chrome

Posted by ajt (195.112.xx.xx) on Thu 24 Sep 2009 at 20:54
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Have a look at Arora, it's in Debian testing/sid now. It's another web-kit based browser but this one has a Qt front end. It's very fast. I now use it most of the time instead of Iceweasle. It isn't a complete replacment but it's better than Iceweasel for most things.

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Re: Plugins for Google Chrome

Posted by Utumno (114.45.xx.xx) on Mon 28 Sep 2009 at 16:39
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ok, but does it run plugins as separate processes? that's chrome's killer feature.

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