Actually, it is an amusing statement, given that chrome has an extension that gives far superior fine-grained control than anything firefox currently offers, *even* if you installed all the necessary addons to try and mimic it.
See: HTTP Switchboard @ Github...
It does, I verified myself that it does indeed block net requests. This can be seen in the source code as well: https://hg.adblockplus.org/adblockpluschrome/file/37ab0d40be2b/webrequest.js#l76
Adblock on Chrome blocks content download. Where did you get the erroneous idea that it doesn't block content download on Chrome? Adblock uses this API: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest
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