Google Chrome - Block selected images

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Hi all.
Usually google doesn't fail me...but it has now

I've been advised to try google chrome (alpha) as a browser for a facebook game (!!!!! wars for anyone who cares..yep - I know it's sad)

Anyway, I tried, and the browser is very fast, perhaps uses a little more ram than cometbird, and it does everything I want it to do with 1 important exception, as I'm on a capped internet service I need to minimise bandwidth usage..which means not downloading the images.
I believe there is a switch (-noimages ?) which will block them all, but then I wouldn't have any images in the browser..and that's not the plan as I have my main facebook profile in the same browser and I do want to see my friends. Currently with comtbird/firefox I can just block the image server URL (http://mwfb.static.zynga.com) quite simply through the GUI...with chrome that doesn't seem an option.
The closest I've come is adblock lite for chrome, I followed the instructions for the css blacklist (perhaps wrongly) and failed to get it to reliably block the images.
Other browsers are not an option...so, anyone know a simple solution for a simple bloke?

..and before anyone suggests a browser won't use much bandwidth don't believe it...refresh enough pages enough times and you can easily hit 1Gb+/day

jweb2k

redirect http://mwfb.static.zynga.com in your hosts file to 127.0.0.1?

DatabaseError

Thanks - I should have said - I want a simple option to turn images on and off, as I already have in other browsers, so hosts file isn't the solution I'm looking for

frogbottler

I haven't used these so can't promise they're the solution you're looking for.

Someone on Chromeboard.com, the unofficial Chrome forum, has written a script
to block images.
http://www.chromeboard.com/showthread.php?t=107

There's also a google extension called Blocker but I think the extensions only work on Chrome Beta
Here's the link

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/epdedalbkhcbhcmcpfglmhngjpgimcmm

Regards

23n1th

Try QtWeb very light weight and can turn images off, very fast as runs off of webkit too I think, mate told me about it.

DatabaseError

@frogger - I tried blocker yesterday..didn't work as I expected (probably user error)
the 1st script you linked looks promising..gonna have a look tomorrow

@23nth - "Other browsers are not an option" but thanks anyway. I want to run a specific set to tools and scripts on the page, chrome and firefox (and its variants) are the only browsers supported

23n1th

Sorry I dont know about scripts and that so assumed since it run on the same thing you'd be able to run it.