Cannot get very simple custom image block to work

[moron923753]

I visit a site:

http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/

which often loads quite slowly. I have heard

http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/408697

that the problem is "Its the background image.. chrome (or rather webkit) has a bug related to it..

If you have the adblock plugin.. block the background image.. you should notice the site appear to run faster.. it is a very annoying bug."

So I found the cache entries for the two main background images that load with Chrome. The images are:

http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/Th ... ody.bg.jpg

http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/Th ... ter.bg.jpg

I have a recent version of Adblock (2.4.22) on Chrome (13.something). I go to the Adblock options page and select "Manually edit your filters:" and paste in the two background image locations, and then press Save. Yet even after restarting the browser and verifying that my additions were indeed saved, the background images are still downloaded and then displayed (and, probably, cause much of the browser lag I experience on that site).

Adding other custom filters seems to work though.

What is the problem? Why aren't the background images on that forum blocked? If this cannot be accomplished using Adblock, is there any other tool I could use to block the download or display of both of those images in Chrome?

Thanks.

[moron923753]

No one?

[fanboy]

seeing a Adblock bug also,

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http://.us.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/front.asp?ipid=0

should be blocked using the filter.. ||intellitxt.com^ Anyone else seeing this in Firefox?

Firefox nightly/Adblock Plus 1.3.10a3096

[mapx]

No one?

did you try block them with hosts file ?

[Guest]

No one?

did you try block them with hosts file ?

That would block the entire forums.sinsofasolarempire/* domain, right? But if that happens, I can't access the site I'm trying to access!

[mapx]

probably you right

I'm using iron browser if you know it.
iron has a builtin adblock (there is adblock.ini), which can block your items and not the domain

iron is still quickly then chrome

[Guest]

iron has a builtin adblock (there is adblock.ini), which can block your items and not the domain

That's what the adblock for Chrome is also supposed to be able to do also, but it fails to block the background images.

[lewisje]

adblock.ini has a less powerful syntax but *is* able to reliably keep content from downloading; however, once that WebRequest API is finalized in Chrome, ABP will be able to do this too