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Disable all addons on particular sites

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This may sound like a daft question but is it possible to disable all addons on a site by site basis? I'm aware some addons have settings which make it possible to add domains which will be ignored by the addon but if I wanted to disable all addons for a particular site, is Safe Mode or manually disabling them the only way to achieve this?

This may sound like a daft question but is it possible to disable all addons on a site by site basis? I'm aware some addons have settings which make it possible to add domains which will be ignored by the addon but if I wanted to disable all addons for a particular site, is Safe Mode or manually disabling them the only way to achieve this?

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My first reply failed to address extensions. Firefox doesn't have any built-in controls to prevent extensions from running on particular sites.

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Easiest would be to use a separate profile to visit those websites or use the portable Firefox version.

You can install a portable (ESR) Firefox version to access websites that do not work with the current Firefox release.
The portable version comes with its own profile folder and doesn't interfere with the currently installed release version.


See:

You can use the -no-remote command line switch to open another Firefox instance with its own profile and run multiple Firefox instances simultaneously.

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The NoScript extension will disable plugins on sites where you do not trust JavaScript to run. It's less useful for simultaneously allowing JavaScript but not allowing plugins.

Firefox's click-to-play feature allows you to get prompted to approve plugins on a site-by-site basis. However, I have not used it, so I don't know how (in)convenient that might be.

More information on the configuration steps in this article: http://www.ghacks.net/2013/08/07/how-to-get-click-to-play-working-in-firefox-23-or-newer/

(There might be an official support article, too, but I didn't find it in a quick search.)

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Suluhisho teule

My first reply failed to address extensions. Firefox doesn't have any built-in controls to prevent extensions from running on particular sites.

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Thanks again for the help :)