Keyboard shortcuts

Supported shortcuts

• Activate extension

  Will open uBlock Origin (uBO) popup panel - equivalent of clicking the button on the toolbar

• Enter element picker mode

  Will activate Element picker that will allow creating new filters

• Enter element zapper mode

  Will activate Element zapper that will allow to temporarily remove elements from the page

• Open the logger

  Will activate The logger where you can preview network connection and applied filters

• Open the dashboard

  Will open The dashboard where you can configure uBO settings

• Relax blocking mode

  Advanced feature, will decrease blocking mode one step at a time.

  Default sequence:

  • Hard mode + No scripting
  • Medium mode + No scripting
  • Medium mode
  • Default.

  Can be configured in Advanced settings#blockingprofiles

• Toggle cosmetic filtering

  New in 1.41.7b1.

  Will toggle "cosmetic filtering" (element hiding filters) on/off for current website.

Accessing shortcut configuration

Firefox

• Main menu (three bars) in top right corner
• Add-ons
• "Tools for all add-ons" menu in top right corner of the page (gear wheel)
• Manage Extension Shortcuts

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In Firefox versions older than 74 shortcut configuration is also available in uBO Dashboard (v1.26.1b1):

A new shortcut option to open popup panel was added in 1.24.0

Chrome

• Main menu (three dots) in top right corner
• More tools
• Extensions
• Extensions menu in top left corner (three bars)
• Keyboard shortcuts