1466517 - Menu option to Enable/Disable all Extensions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1195017

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement, P5)

Description

[lockhartrm]

Could a menu option to enable/disable all user installed extensions be considered?

The use case I'm after is to shut-down all extensions that manipulate webpages without disabling Plugins (e.g. Safe Mode would not work for this). Obviously one could click Disable on every extension manually, but I figure this would be a useful feature.

I imagine an ideal place to locate this would be the gear icon, on the about:addons page, that is used to manage add-on updates.

Thanks for the consideration!

Comment 1

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

(In reply to lockhartrm from comment #0)
> The use case I'm after is to shut-down all extensions that manipulate
> webpages without disabling Plugins (e.g. Safe Mode would not work for this).

I assume by plugins, you're talking about things like Flash / Widevine?

Comment 2

[lockhartrm]

Yes!

Comment 3

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Cool, thanks lockhartrm.

Moving to the about:addons component.

Comment 5

[lockhartrm]

That duplicate resolution (1195017) is inactive. Does that mean the request won't be considered for implementation?

Comment 6

[Andrew Swan [:aswan]]

We have a project underway to overhaul the user interface for managing addons (ie, all the stuff currently lumped together at about:addons).  This project is still in the design phase but the designers working on it have been paying attention to the many UI requests in Toolkit : Add-ons Manager including the duplicate.
We're unlikely to make changes to the current about:addons page given this pending revamp.  If you want to follow the project, the meta bug is bug 1387450, though there hasn't been much recent activity.