Temporarily disable for all sites

[majax79]

I'm hoping for the ability to temporarily disable ublock origin everywhere by left or right clicking the icon. Currently, I have to go into chrome addon and manually disable ublock origin, but this way would make it a lot easier.
This feature is in adblock and adblock plus. It's called "Pause AdBlock" and "Disable Everywhere". I find it really useful.

[Gitoffthelawn]

+1

I asked for this over on the uBlock Origin repo and was denied. Hopefully it will be implemented here.

[5t3f4n]

This sounds like a terrible idea. One might disable it temporarily to unbreak a particularly annoying site that just won't work and then, without realizing, open something else in an a new tab and getting exposed to god knows what by accident.

The extension is "restartless" so you can just disable/enable it quickly if you desperately need to "pause" it.

[chrisaljoudi]

A similar control is slated to be included in the upcoming new UI.

@majax79 to avoid confusion, I just wanted to point out this isn't uBlock Origin — and @Gitoffthelawn says this feature request was already denied there.

The main uBlock is indeed getting this next version, but I can't say about uBlock Origin.

[chrisaljoudi]

@5t3f4n all good points, and this is s consideration which the redesign pays a lot of attention to.

Will certainly continue to keep it in mind.

[5t3f4n]

Glad to hear that @chrisaljoudi. If it can be implemented in such a way that it eliminates, or at least minimizes risk of, accidental exposure then I guess everybody wins.

[Snapy]

Gorhill denied the request because he considers that a temporary * * * allow is the same so it is already supported in some way.

[chrisaljoudi]

@Snapy except that's only available to advanced users (and is arguably a lot more obscure).

[Gitoffthelawn]

@snapy Not only is it more obscure, it no longer works as a 'disable' feature due to strict blocking. Sites will still be blocked at the top level.