

It’s okay to download and install it, so click on “Continue”. Halfway down the screen is a big green button “Install Adblock Plus Now!” Click on it and you’ll see a warning show up on the lower left corner of your browser: Just go to the page that hosts the extension and the necessary dialog box appears like magic. Getting and installing an extension can’t be easier, though.

This means that there are a lot of ways you can get plug-ins, extensions and other utilities to expand or extend the capabilities of the application. Indeed, some of them (read “Google Chrome”) can serve as your entire operating system, as demonstrate with the Google Chromebook laptops. Modern Web browsers are incredibly sophisticated software applications with a ton of capabilities. In fact, Firefox might be the best of breed for that particular built-in capability, but we’re talking about Chrome, so let’s focus… I just received a request to review a free Google Chrome extension called AdBlock Plus because, as you have noted, Chrome doesn’t block pop-up windows anywhere as effectively as Firefox does.
