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vasa1
November 17th, 2010, 09:03 AM
Adblock Plus, The Popular Firefox Add-On, Hits 100 Million Downloads (http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/17/adblock-plus-100-million/) and Mozilla (http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2010/11/17/100-million-adblock-plus-downloads/).

-{ Quote: "In a recently published blog post, Adblock Plus developer Wladimir Palant revealed that he had recently secured funding from an unnamed Samaritan, enabling him to quit his day job at Songbird and work on the ABP project full-time for the next two years." }-
Blog dated 2010-08-22 (http://adblockplus.org/blog/important-changes-coming-to-the-adblock-plus-project)

In the comments section, Palant continued to maintain that he would not develop for Chrome or IE.

Sadeghi85
November 17th, 2010, 08:25 PM
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In the comments section, Palant continued to maintain that he would not develop for Chrome or IE." }-

Yes, in the comment section: https://adblockplus.org/blog/how-are-supported-applications-chosen-for-adblock-plus

There are already a number of good ad blockers for Chrome, even one similar to element hiding helper, though all of them require JavaScript to be enabled to work.