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OS: Linux , Windows , Chrome , Mac
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Type: Feature



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[Feature-Request] A quick switch to enable/disable all extensions

Reported by hammad.f...@gmail.com, Jul 5

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
An easily accessible switch to enable/disable all extensions would be great for disabling all semi-trusted code when visiting sensitive websites, such as Banks.

What is the expected behavior?
A Switch in toolbar that disables all extensions in 'off' state. And restores previously enabled extensions in 'on' state.

What went wrong?
I visited a bank website, and had to disable extensions individually from the the extensions management page.

I could use incognito mode and have it set up to not have extensions there, but I need a subset of my extensions in incognito mode as well.

WebStore page: 

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 66.0.3359.139  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 6.2 (Windows 8)
Flash Version:
 
On a side note, those who value their online privacy and bank credentials security should use a separate user profile (or even a separate browser to facilitate differentiating the difference) to access those sites.
Labels: Needs-Milestone
Labels: -Type-Bug Triaged-ET M-69 Target-69 FoundIn-69 OS-Linux OS-Mac Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
As per comment #0, the issue seems to be a feature request. Hence, marking it as untriaged for further inputs from dev team.

Thanks...!!
Owner: rdevlin....@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
I like this but it might be solved by transitioning to a Runtime permission model. Over to Devlin to decide.
Cc: bklmn@chromium.org rdevlin....@chromium.org jawag@chromium.org
Labels: -Needs-Milestone -M-69 -Target-69 OS-Chrome
Owner: ----
Status: Available (was: Assigned)
We've chatted about this a number of times, in a few different contexts.  We've brought up the idea of a global, native "disable all" state from the toolbar or in the main menu, and also thought about it on the chrome://extensions page, and we're also experimenting with having the ability to have more control over where to let your extensions run.  There are a couple issues with the global disable toggle - in particular, if you have a subset of extensions enabled, then disable them all, then make a few more changes, what does the re-enable do? etc.  Sync is also a bit tricky.

We're definitely interested in doing something here, but it will be a matter of getting the right controls into place.  In the meantime, as a workaround, woxxom@'s suggestion of having a separate profile with no extensions is a good one (if you generally want other extensions to run in incognito).

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