This is the guide to setup AdBlock Plus manually on Google Chrome.
To begin with this you download your .crx file from any source or clone the oficial Mercurial Repo.
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Open your Chrome web browser and locate the Customize Button at the top right corner of the window.
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Click on it and go to settings.
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Locate the Extensions section at the left side of the screen.
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Activate the Developer mode at the top right of the options.
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Open your file manager in the location where your .crx file is.
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Rename the file changing the .crx to .rar (or .7z if you don't have WinRar Installed)
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Create a new folder (Adblock Plus) and move the .rar file to it.
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Extract the contents of the file in the Adblock Plus folder -
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Go back to the Chrome Browser and locate the Load Unpacked extensions button and click on it.
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Go to the Path of the AdBlock Plus folder and click once on it and the click the OK button.
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Done! A new tab will appear showing the complete installation.
Packages you need: - jinja2 - markupsafe
Packages can be installed via pip. Clone mercurial repo
hg clone https://hg.adblockplus.org/adblockplus
Rename metadata.gecko to metadata.chrome
cd adblockplus/
mv metadata.gecko metadata.chrome
To create a .zip file you need to run:
./build.py -t chrome build
Once you have the zip file you can follow the steps described in the first part of this document beginning with step number 7 .
You can create too a developer environment running:
./build.py -t chrome devenv
This will create a devenv folder which can be loaded as an extension as described in the first part of this tutorial beginning with step number 9. Path in this case will be the route to the devenv
Once you have it you can follow the same steps described in the first part of this tutorial beginning with step number 9. Path in this case will be the route to the devenv
And there are more options available with the help
parameter
./build.py help
./build.py -t chrome help