I soon found out the problem with my solution to the google image search problem in my previous post. If you just disable javascript for google, you lose maps, etc. Unfortunately, Chromium's content preferences are slightly limited at the moment - you only seem to be able to disable javascript on a site by specfying a top level URL only. That means no limiting to image search results only.

So I decided to bite the bullet and write my first Chromium extension:
http://chrome.google.com/extensions/oogle