What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

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Hungry Man
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What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by Hungry Man »

How far does Chrome still have to go before they're the same?
bland.life
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Re: What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by bland.life »

I guess its just the interface?
As since 1.1, the Chrome version uses all filters for blocking content (not just hiding anymore).

Element hiding helper is sort of integrated in the address bar icon.
But theres no 'show blockable items', I think.
Hungry Man
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Re: What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by Hungry Man »

But it's fully capable in the same way?
Till
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Re: What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by Till »

Since the update to version 1.1 it has become much more closer to the quality of the Firefox one. However, there are some limitations in Chrome so unless that changes ABP in Firefox will always provide the better adblocking experience.
Wladimir Palant

Re: What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by Wladimir Palant »

See en/known-issues-chrome, these are the major "technical" issues right now.
Hungry Man
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Re: What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by Hungry Man »

Do those apply to the development builds?
Wladimir Palant

Re: What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by Wladimir Palant »

Of course they do - all of them are Chrome bugs and limitations.
Hungry Man
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Re: What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by Hungry Man »

What about Chrome's experimental API? Any promise for working with that?
Wladimir Palant

Re: What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by Wladimir Palant »

Extensions using experimental API cannot be uploaded to Chrome's add-on gallery. Anyway, the currently available experimental API won't help us much. Only interesting thing is the undocumented pop-ups API which should help improve our user interface.
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Re: What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by anonymous74100 »

Does ABP for Chrome support subscription links :?:
Wladimir Palant

Re: What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by Wladimir Palant »

No, not yet.
lewisje
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Re: What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by lewisje »

anonymous74100 wrote:Does ABP for Chrome support subscription links :?:
AdBlock by Gundlach does BTW
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Epidomis
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Re: What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by Epidomis »

Question about Chrome not blocking request types. In your opinion, is/will there be any progress with this, or are limitations are a design choice?
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Re: What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by lewisje »

Requests by plugin content will be blocked when the Chromium project allows extensions to block object sub-requests.
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Wladimir Palant

Re: What are the differences between FF and Chrome adblock?

Post by Wladimir Palant »

I don't think it is a design choice, it merely doesn't seem to be a priority (and you can hardly blame Google devs for that). Frankly, the whole extension API doesn't seem to be a priority - I have yet to see a single bug being resolved as fixed.
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