In an effort to block ads in Chrome like AdBlock Plus does for FireFox, I am using proxy services to block ads. I tried this first on my Vista laptop. At first, I used Privoxy, which listens to 127.0.0.1:8118. I was able to set up a proxy for it just fine. Then I tried BFilter, which listens to 127.0.0.1:8080. It also worked just fine.

I would provide an image, but on previewing the post, I got this message:

You are only allowed to post URLs to other sites after you have made 15 posts or more.

I then tried this on my Windows XP PC. First I tried Privoxy (I hadn't discovered BFilter at the time), set up the proxy, everything was dandy. When I discovered BFilter, I adjusted the port to 8080 and clicked ok. I then got this error message:

ERROR

The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: <Website URL>

The following error was encountered:

Connection Failed to 127.0.0.1:8118
The system returned:

connection refused
The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.

Notice it says it's listening to port 8118. I had adjusted it to listen to port 8080, but it doesn't seem to realize that. When I open the LAN settings, it still says 8080, but Chrome thinks it needs to listen to 8118.

I figured it might be a problem with the folder being checked as read-only, as was the case with installing FFXI in Vista (what a nightmare).

I tracked down the install folder for Chrome, which is in
H:\Documents and Settings\<My name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome
(Note to staff: let us choose where to install it.)

The folder was marked as read-only. I unchecked the read-only box. It went through a process of removing the read-only tag from all files and folders inside the Chrome folder. I closed the properties box, re-opened it, and it somehow said it was read-only *blinkblink*
This particular error seems to be a common (and annoying) problem in Windows XP and Vista, and I have no clue how to fix it. I won't attempt to until I can narrow down the reason for the proxy options misbehaving.

I'm at a loss as what to do. I even uninstalled/reinstalled it and changed the proxy to BFilter settings, but it still listens to the Privoxy port when I use a proxy server. Is there any way to fix this bug?

Does anybody know? :[
Any solutions I try towards the read-only problem don't keep the box unchecked, so I'm hoping the problem can be fixed from within the browser itself.

....I found the bug. it wasn't with the browser itself, it was with how BFilter was set up. When I installed it, it must have seen that I had Chrome pointing to a specific proxy (Privoxy), and BFilter pointed itself to that proxy. Even though I had port forwarding off, BFilter still wanted to forward to Privoxy. I have it pointing to my antivirus now, internet works well through it, and yay, no ads.