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« Thread Started on Feb 18, 2012, 12:59pm » | |
having a weird problem. for some reason now when I go to Google.com I can't close the "Install Google Chrome window. the close button is greyed out. this is the second distro where this is happening. the other isn't Debian based. I have oodles of other distros plus mac and windows installs where it doesn't happen. any thoughts?
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« Reply #1 on Feb 18, 2012, 3:05pm » | |
I think the best you can do is to use adblockplus & add a custom filter in the preferences, filter preferences, custom filters dialog window.
||google.com/*
will give you this:
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Everything works but the Sign In functionality is apparently not removable. Too bad.
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« Reply #2 on Feb 18, 2012, 3:16pm » | |
yes, I can use adblock to get rid of the issue but I don't know why only a few distros have the problem.
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« Reply #3 on Feb 18, 2012, 3:17pm » | |
It's not a problem as much as it is an annoyance to me.
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« Reply #4 on Feb 18, 2012, 3:19pm » | |
you say tomato and I say tomato. hmmm sounds the same in text. 
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« Reply #5 on Feb 18, 2012, 4:24pm » | |
Feb 18, 2012, 3:19pm, lkj wrote:| you say tomato and I say tomato. hmmm sounds the same in text. |
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Sounds familiar too:
http://solusos.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=153&start=50
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« Reply #7 on Feb 19, 2012, 2:34pm » | |
it turns out the problem with "Install Google Chrome" goes away on it's own if you refresh the page a number of times. I guess Google doesn't want to be TOO annoying.
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| | Re: (Solved) more Firefox issues
« Reply #8 on Feb 24, 2012, 3:42pm » | |
Feb 19, 2012, 2:34pm, lkj wrote:| it turns out the problem with "Install Google Chrome" goes away on it's own if you refresh the page a number of times. I guess Google doesn't want to be TOO annoying. |
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The install button will not go away on its own. It will go away if you enable cookies, click "Dismiss" and then don't delete your cookies when you exit Firefox. If you delete cookies, it will reappear when you restart Firefox. If you want to get rid of it for good, install the "Remove It Permanently" Firefox extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-it-permanently/
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« Reply #9 on Feb 24, 2012, 5:09pm » | |
Feb 24, 2012, 3:42pm, joany wrote:
Feb 19, 2012, 2:34pm, lkj wrote:| it turns out the problem with "Install Google Chrome" goes away on it's own if you refresh the page a number of times. I guess Google doesn't want to be TOO annoying. |
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The install button will not go away on its own. It will go away if you enable cookies, click "Dismiss" and then don't delete your cookies when you exit Firefox. If you delete cookies, it will reappear when you restart Firefox. If you want to get rid of it for good, install the "Remove It Permanently" Firefox extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-it-permanently/ |
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I beg to differ. first of all I have/had cookies enabled. I couldn't dismiss the window at all because it was greyed out. I have cookies set to "save until expired" because I go to so many sites which I don't want to have to resign in or set settings for. but the "Remove It Permanently" suggestion is a good one.
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