MineBlock Extension. Because, prevention is better than cure!
What does it do and why should I care?Bitcoin mining is getting big, despite its uber-fluctuating behavior. Given that, there will at least be a few websites in near future that would make use of the mining power of you CPU while you're browsing their site, instead of showing up ads.
There have been script-providers that act as third-party miners who mine on your processors. This is just one of them.
The MineBlock extension blocks any mining script from running on your system. It is the mining equivalent of 'AdBlock'.
Click Here To Download (this will not take more than 3 second, even on a dial-up connection ;)).
Please download to any folder other than your default Downloads folder to avoid the 'random' 'CRX_FILE_INVALID' error,an issue with the recent versions of the Chrome Browser. More about this error on Chrome page: Error
Once the download is complete,simply drag and drop it on your 'Chrome' browser.
Chrome will ask for an Installation Confirmation: Say 'yes', this is completely safe :)
That's it, you're all set! MineBlock has started its work blocking the mining scripts from making use of your CPU cycles!
Thanks to Dilip/Padmini Dilip for the idea.
The original discussion that led to this can be found HERE
