Adblock plus for Chrome not adding as an extension.

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adblocker123
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Adblock plus for Chrome not adding as an extension.

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Somebody help as for some reason I can't get ABP to work on Chrome this time.
Ads are not being blocked on YouTube and general websites which slows browser performance quite a bit.

For some reason my bookmarks were deleted overnight but that may be an unrelated separate matter. I was deleting empty page and various widget files in the last couple of days so I wonder if that may have had something to do with these issues.
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You have to be sure your system is clean.

See some indications:
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The ABP add-on logo now appears at the top right hand corner of my newly installed Mozilla Firefox browser but still refuses to work with the latest version of Chrome for some reason.
I've run it through a couple of the Malware Bytes scans and restored most of the contents of the Recycle bin but it still refuses to block adds in the Chrome browser...

Any new suggestions?
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Did you follow all the indications ? (new profile)
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Another interesting thing is the message that appears at the top of the ABP download screen: "This item has been disabled in Chrome. Enable this item."

Then, when I click on the 'enable' part the screen flickers through back to that same message at the top.
Meanwhile the green tab in the top right hand corner indicates "Added to Chrome".

Could it be that Google no longer supports ABP the way the Android Playstore has recently, as well?
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Did you follow all the indications ? (new profile)
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Could you provide step-by-step instructions of my Google Profile settings?
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Great news! For some reason the ABP add-on logo is now showing again.
Maybe it had to do with me restoring to original browser settings in 'Advanced'.

Thnxs for the helpful advice...
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