Request: Temporarily disable (pause)

[derrickb]

I'm not really a power user, only occasionally need to add sites to the whitelist.

The one feature I miss the most from Adblock was the pause feature. I believe you could temporarily turn off the plugin on a given page from the context menu or the address bar icon.

With uBlock I have to go to manage extensions, turn off the plugin, and then turn it back on if I need to temporarily have it disabled. Any way to add a "pause" feature?

[anewuser]

Hello. Thank you for using uBlock Origin.

To disable it:

1. Click on the extension button
2. Click on the huge blue icon

To re-enable it:

1. Click on the extension button
2. Click on the huge grayed-out icon
3. Click on the refresh button to reload the current page

Please read our wiki for learning how to use our extension instead of opening issues. It covers everything you need to know about, including the large power button.

Also, please close this issue to mark it as solved.

[ghost]

@anewuser, I believe @derrickb is requesting an option to temporarily disable uBlock on every website.

[anewuser]

@hotdogman, if you read the wiki, you'll learn how to do that too.

• Advanced user mode: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Advanced-user-features
• Dynamic filtering: turn off uBlock everywhere: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-turn-off-uBlock-everywhere

Check the first "All" column to allow everything from everywhere in all tabs, then use the eraser button to reset it after you're done.

[gorhill]

I believe @derrickb is requesting an option to temporarily disable uBlock on every website

I don't intend to implement this.

Excerpts from OP:

go to manage extensions
turn off the plugin
turn it back on if I need to temporarily have it disabled

So this would only save one step, the "go to manage extensions" one -- one easily overcome by clicking "Manage extensions" in context menu of the extension icon. This is such a trivial step -- nowhere near enough to justify the code/UI changes to support this.

[anewuser]

@gorhill I've found a specific wiki page about this and made a new screenshot for it.

I was going to replace it, but noticed that the current image is hosted locally on Github. Is it tied to your account? How should I upload my screenshots not to use a third-party host?

[gorhill]

It comes from an image I embedded in a comment in the issue section: uBlock-LLC/uBlock#40 (comment).

[anewuser]

I wonder if the image URL is going to expire if I use this method to upload it but don't save my comment.

Just in case, here it is:

[derrickb]

@anewuser @gorhill thanks for the info. I actually didn't even know that the blue icon was added for enabling/disabling the plugin... was this added recently? Anyway, I'm pretty sure this does exactly what I was looking for, being able to quickly turn on/off the plugin without going to the extensions page.

[anewuser]

@derrickb no, this is an old feature. Months ago it used to be green though.

[ackern]

Seems like in the time that it takes to tell all the people who want this feature it will never be added and that they only think they want it but are in fact wrong, it could already have been added.

[gorhill]

@ackern Why use a blocker if one needs to disable it so often that it becomes a big deal to have to deal with one extra click?

[anewuser]

@ackern If you want to invest your own time wisely, you can learn how to code for free on sites like http://www.codecademy.com/ and https://developer.mozilla.org/ . If that's too much work for you, you can hire a freelancer instead to make the change you want and have a custom version of uBlock.

This repository is meant to be used to report and talk about bugs and problems with existing features. If you want to keep discussing your opinions and wishes, please start a thread on Reddit, as indicated by our rules.

[ackern]

It's 6 or 8 clicks depending on whether you count keystrokes as separate clicks:

alt - t - a, or ctrl-shift-a

click to get focus in add-ons list

page down through list

page down again

disable

ctrl-w

...as opposed to 2 in Adblock Plus:

• click on icon
• Disable Everywhere

..or, since you don't seem to take my word for it nor the numerous other people who've asked for the same thing, ask the people at Adblock Plus why they have a Disable button, or NoScript or Ghostery or thousands of other extensions.

[gorhill]

Pin add-on tab. Two clicks:

• Select add-on tab
• Disable/enable

Works for any extension.