Several issues with Ghostery for Chrome

(Chrome)
1) Facebook Social Plugins -- when Ghostery blocks it, it frequently removes all the content from the column where it is placed. Example (an especially spectacular one, more commonly a side column is affected): http://www.podlasie24.pl ; other examples: http://www.siskom.waw.pl/aktualnosci.htm , http://nczas.com. Known fixes: a) whitelist the tracker and let AdBlock+ cut it regardless (but AdBlock+ eats much more memory than Ghostery and is harder to harness), b) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/de... (didn't try).
2) SoundCloud -- as above. http://etno.serpent.pl/koncerty2013/s... .
3) ScoreCard Research Beacon -- its description on the results list (new panel, undetailed view) is to the bottom & left to where it should be, overlapping with the item beneath. (See 4. for an example).
4) Facebook Social Plugins & Google +1 on http://dictionary.reference.com/brows... (very rarely elsewhere) -- they get blocked only after hovering the pointer over them (the last Chrome update fixed the way History registers such a refresh, so it no longer makes the page appear in it twice). (Sometimes other trackers, too, manage to flash for a moment before being blocked).
5) Ghostery loads so late that it fails to scan the pages loaded at the browser's start-up (when you use the "Continue where I left off" setting), getting to work only after you change/refresh a page.
6) The Options page allows to manage whitelisting a tracker on all sites, but not on specific sites. When I tried to recall some site examples for the above, I clicked on Facebook SP on the tracker list, but only a description of the tracker appeared, without the list of my exceptions.
7) If you open the tracker list before everything has been loaded, it (the list, not the whole app) won't get updated on the fly, it needs to be re-clicked. (Which is probably good after all, as it helps reduce CPU usage).
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