How to block flickering of ads in Chrome?

I recently "adopted" Chrome but the flickering ads bug me.
I looked through most of the program but I can't find a place
to block that flickering.

I looked through the Options

Basics
Personal Stuff
Under the Hood.

and found no suggestion for shutting off the nuisance flickering.

Help appreciated :-)

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:19:20 +0100, Loonie wrote:

> I recently "adopted" Chrome but the flickering ads bug me.
> I looked through most of the program but I can't find a place
> to block that flickering.
>
> I looked through the Options
>
> Basics
> Personal Stuff
> Under the Hood.
>
> and found no suggestion for shutting off the nuisance flickering.
>
> Help appreciated :-)

Do all the ads flicker, or just those on a couple of sites?

If the later, avoid those sites :-)

Chrome doesn't match my style, so I am not knowledgeable about it, but I
answered anyway, since I believe it is the site which determines how the
adds look. I know, because I've used it (briefly!), that there is HTML
to create flashing text.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

You don't "block flickering", you "block ads"

On 10/17/2011 4:19 PM, Loonie wrote:
> I recently "adopted" Chrome but the flickering ads bug me.
> I looked through most of the program but I can't find a place
> to block that flickering.
>
> I looked through the Options
>
> Basics
> Personal Stuff
> Under the Hood.
>
> and found no suggestion for shutting off the nuisance flickering.
>
> Help appreciated :-)

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:29:28 -0500, Bob I wrote:

> You don't "block flickering", you "block ads"

That is clearly a better reply than mine. I was thinking of sites
instead of ads, but that isn't what Loonie said :-)

Still, we are in fundamental agreement, that the problem is in the data,
not in the browser.

BTW, after I sent my post, I thought a bit further and thought that
better advice might have been to suppress JavaScript, but that creates
other problems, in that some sites don't work right.

> On 10/17/2011 4:19 PM, Loonie wrote:
>> I recently "adopted" Chrome but the flickering ads bug me.
>> I looked through most of the program but I can't find a place
>> to block that flickering.
>>
>> I looked through the Options
>>
>> Basics
>> Personal Stuff
>> Under the Hood.
>>
>> and found no suggestion for shutting off the nuisance flickering.
>>
>> Help appreciated :-)


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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:19:20 +0100, Loonie <> wrote:

>I recently "adopted" Chrome but the flickering ads bug me.
>I looked through most of the program but I can't find a place
>to block that flickering.
>
>I looked through the Options
>
>Basics
>Personal Stuff
>Under the Hood.
>
>and found no suggestion for shutting off the nuisance flickering.
>
>Help appreciated :-)

I don't know what you mean by "flickering", so I'll just pass along
some general guidance on removing ads entirely.

<http://lifehacker.com/5046529/how-to-block-ads-in-google-chrome>

Quoting from that link, "One of the biggest reasons most Windows users
are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and
the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is
Adblock Plus."

With that in mind, I definitely recommend Firefox with the AdBlock
Plus extension, but if you must use Chrome then consider following the
Privoxy advice in the article linked above. Let us know how well it
works.

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Char Jackson

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:37:01 -0500, Char Jackson <>
wrote:

>On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:19:20 +0100, Loonie <> wrote:
>
>>I recently "adopted" Chrome but the flickering ads bug me.
>>I looked through most of the program but I can't find a place
>>to block that flickering.
>>
>>I looked through the Options
>>
>>Basics
>>Personal Stuff
>>Under the Hood.
>>
>>and found no suggestion for shutting off the nuisance flickering.
>>
>>Help appreciated :-)
>
>I don't know what you mean by "flickering", so I'll just pass along
>some general guidance on removing ads entirely.
>
><http://lifehacker.com/5046529/how-to-block-ads-in-google-chrome>
>
>Quoting from that link, "One of the biggest reasons most Windows users
>are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and
>the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is
>Adblock Plus."
>
>With that in mind, I definitely recommend Firefox with the AdBlock
>Plus extension, but if you must use Chrome then consider following the
>Privoxy advice in the article linked above. Let us know how well it
>works.

Addendum: Looks like AdBlock Plus is now available for Chrome!

<http://adblockplus.org/en/chrome>

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Char Jackson

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:37:01 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:19:20 +0100, Loonie <> wrote:
>
>>I recently "adopted" Chrome but the flickering ads bug me.
>>I looked through most of the program but I can't find a place
>>to block that flickering.
>>
>>I looked through the Options
>>
>>Basics
>>Personal Stuff
>>Under the Hood.
>>
>>and found no suggestion for shutting off the nuisance flickering.
>>
>>Help appreciated :-)
>
> I don't know what you mean by "flickering", so I'll just pass along
> some general guidance on removing ads entirely.
>
> <http://lifehacker.com/5046529/how-to-block-ads-in-google-chrome>
>
> Quoting from that link, "One of the biggest reasons most Windows users
> are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and
> the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is
> Adblock Plus."
>
> With that in mind, I definitely recommend Firefox with the AdBlock
> Plus extension, but if you must use Chrome then consider following the
> Privoxy advice in the article linked above. Let us know how well it
> works.

Interesting sidelight: I clicked on your link and nothing happened. I
did it ten more times and still nothing happened (OK, only twice more!).

As a first check, I copied the link *without* the angle brackets and
pasted it into my browser's address bar and it worked fine.

I then tried it in MesNews to see if might be Dialog. All MesNews did
was say "Dink" and there too, the link didn't open. I did it again,
because I liked the sound :-)

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:37:01 -0500, Char Jackson <>
wrote:


> Quoting from that link, "One of the biggest reasons most Windows users
> are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and
> the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is
> Adblock Plus."


A very inaccurate sentence: most Windows users, by far, use Internet
Explorer. Many of them don't even know there are other choices.

Personally I use neither IE, Firefox, nor Chrome. I greater prefer
Maxthon to all of them.

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:13:08 -0700, Ken Blake <>
wrote:

>On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:37:01 -0500, Char Jackson <>
>wrote:
>
>
>> Quoting from that link, "One of the biggest reasons most Windows users
>> are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and
>> the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is
>> Adblock Plus."
>
>
>A very inaccurate sentence: most Windows users, by far, use Internet
>Explorer. Many of them don't even know there are other choices.

I believe the quote is comparing Firefox and Chrome, not Firefox
versus everything else, so in that respect it's accurate. However, the
trend lines for those two browsers seem to be heading toward eventual
intersection, according to this chart:

<http://gs.statcounter.com/>

>Personally I use neither IE, Firefox, nor Chrome. I greater prefer
>Maxthon to all of them.

I haven't tried Maxthon. It's tied a little too closely to IE for me
so I'm sticking with Firefox for now.

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Char Jackson

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:02:46 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
<not-> wrote:

>On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:37:01 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:19:20 +0100, Loonie <> wrote:
>>
>>>I recently "adopted" Chrome but the flickering ads bug me.
>>>I looked through most of the program but I can't find a place
>>>to block that flickering.
>>>
>>>I looked through the Options
>>>
>>>Basics
>>>Personal Stuff
>>>Under the Hood.
>>>
>>>and found no suggestion for shutting off the nuisance flickering.
>>>
>>>Help appreciated :-)
>>
>> I don't know what you mean by "flickering", so I'll just pass along
>> some general guidance on removing ads entirely.
>>
>> <http://lifehacker.com/5046529/how-to-block-ads-in-google-chrome>
>>
>> Quoting from that link, "One of the biggest reasons most Windows users
>> are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and
>> the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is
>> Adblock Plus."
>>
>> With that in mind, I definitely recommend Firefox with the AdBlock
>> Plus extension, but if you must use Chrome then consider following the
>> Privoxy advice in the article linked above. Let us know how well it
>> works.
>
>Interesting sidelight: I clicked on your link and nothing happened. I
>did it ten more times and still nothing happened (OK, only twice more!).
>
>As a first check, I copied the link *without* the angle brackets and
>pasted it into my browser's address bar and it worked fine.
>
>I then tried it in MesNews to see if might be Dialog. All MesNews did
>was say "Dink" and there too, the link didn't open. I did it again,
>because I liked the sound :-)

Sorry, I can't imagine what you must have done with your browsers to
break such a basic bit of functionality. Perhaps someone will chine in
with a fix. Could it be as simple as a PC reboot?

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Char Jackson