The Glade 4.0

So.. I have decided to reload my OS. Now I am trying to download and install programs and such again. For some reason Chrome is giving me grief on the download/installation.

I hate technology.

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Darksiege
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What's it say? Maybe you should try downloading a beta build: http://www.google.com/landing/chrome/beta/

It was not giving an error. It appeared to be hanging at the point in the installation where it is 'downloading chrome'.

Apparently I was just being impatient though.

Can these beta's do anything with add ons though? If so is there any listing of add ons?

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

If your download i hanging, you might try clearing your browser cache, or just downloading the executable on a different machine and moving it over on a thumb drive.

As I pointed out to a Glader in IMs the other day (Screeling?), I suspect that we won't see Chrome supporting add-ons for a long time.

What's the first add-on you go find/enable? The ad-blocker. How does Google make the bulk of its revenue? It's the largest (or one of, to hedge my bets) internet advertising distributor in the world.

The cynic in me says that Chrome was born out of a meeting where some exectutive said "why are the impressions we get from our advertising going down, month after month?" and a tech guy answering, "it might be due in large part to Firefox's growing popularity. It allows users to easily block advertising at the domain level." and then the executive snaps, "Well, I want you to stop that!" So the tech guy goes off and creates a competitor that they can control.

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hrm.. even in firefox I never use addblockers. I do however like being able to temporary bookmark pages to readlater, etc.

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Darksiege
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Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Errmm...actually, Chrome has extensions support enabled in the latest dev builds. Some of the earlier 4.x.x dev builds didn't have it, but I know the version I'm using right now (4.0.249.4) does. In fact, I happen to be using Adblock+ with Chrome right now.

The only problem I've run into with it so far is that extensions are disabled in Incognito mode. Currently, this is considered "a feature, not a bug". That is, compare it to using Firefox with a privacy extension like Distrust. Distrust offers similar functionality to Incognito mode. While distrust is enabled, things like browser history and cookie operations are recorded to a temporary location, which is then purged when you disable distrust. It also warns you about any files that you downloaded while in distrust mode. The catch is that distrust can really only monitor basic built-in Firefox functions. Because extension development is open-ended, it can't anticipate every possible way that an extension might leak private data. So if you use distrust in combination with other extensions, you privacy might not be as protected as you think it is.

At least for the time being, Chrome side-steps the issue by disabling all extensions in Incognito mode. This is effective, but it's obviously crude. In the long run, I'd like to see better integration between incognito mode and extensions. If extensions are notified of incognito mode status, then it becomes possible for them to behave accordingly. However, this still puts your privacy at the mercy of 3rd party developers who may or may not be paying attention to privacy issues. So I'm not really sure what the best solution to this is.

TL;DR -- chrome has extensions now, including AdBlock.

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Chrome finally has adblock? I'm in. Ooh, and they're working on xmarks for chrome too.

That's fantastic news. As I said, that was the cynic in me talking. Good to know he's occasionally wrong, still.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Oh; incidentally, I've only done this on Linux. I'm not really sure what the procedure is for Windows.

Try this. I think you want the dev channel rather than the beta channel, but I'm not sure.

One other aside: when I installed Adblock+ 1.1.9.9 from the chromeextensions.org site, initially it didn't work correctly (no toolbar button, couldn't configure it's options). I brought up the extensions page from the config menu and hit the "update extensions now" button. This upgraded it to 1.1.9.10, and everything started working (after restarting Chrome, I think). Apparently chromeextensions.org lags a little behind the latest release of AdBlock+ for Chrome.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Schweet news. I love Chrome. Firefox is now the bastard step-child of my browsers and has to play in the special corner with IE and Netscape.

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