How to enable support for Chrome
Plucky’s support for Chrome is disabled by default on Windows.
To enable Chrome support on Windows, invoke: pluck - nochrome
and pluck + okchrome
and pluck repair
, and then restart Chrome after the delay has elapsed.
Why does Plucky block Google Search results because of a block rule for an unrelated site?
Users sometimes report Plucky blocking Google Search results ostensibly due to rules in the config for block reddit.com
, block x.com
, or block instagram.com
. Since none of these blocks should affect google.com
, users attribute it to a bug in Plucky.
In reality, what is happening is Google Chrome is aggressively preloading pages within the search results in the background in order to give the user a seemingly faster browsing experience when they click on links from the results. This preloading process reports to Plucky as if the user has already clicked on the links and, assuming one of the blocked sites is among the results, Plucky does its job by blocking the page.
The solution is to simply turn off preloading from within Chrome’s settings.
- Go to
chrome://settings/?search=preload
and turn preload pages off - Go to
chrome://settings/syncSetup?search=improve+search+suggestions
and turn improve search suggestions off - Restart Chrome
Last updated: 2025-04-08