AdSweep: Ad Blocking Plugin For Opera And Google Chrome

Firefox users use AdBlock Plus to filter out advertisements from web pages. What about Opera and Chrome users? An excellent ad-blocker plugin/add-on has been developed that works smoothly both on Opera and Google Chrome.

AdSweep is an equivalent of AdBlock Plus for Opera and Chrome users. Although, it has been developed for Opera, you can easily use it for Google Chrome too.

Installation On Opera

1. Extract the javascript file from Zip archive after download and save it in a directory.
2. Go to 'Tools -> Preferences...'.
3. Select 'Advanced' tab and select 'Content' menu item.
4. Click 'Javascript Options button and select the Adsweep .js file through file browsing dialogue box. Click 'OK'.

Installation On Google Chrome

1. Extract the AdSweep.js from Zip archive and rename it to AdSweep.user.js.
2. Place this file in Chrome's user script directory.
3. Right click Chrome's shortcut and select 'Properties' option.
4. Select 'Shortcut' tab and append --enable-user-scripts to the string in 'Target' field.
5. Make sure there is space between the old string and your appended string. Click 'OK' and save.

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