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Disable Extensions Temporarily

by busterc

v1.2 Updated Mar 30, 2025 40.15KiB
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★ 3.59
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Description

Sometimes you just need to disable chrome extensions temporarily. This extension does just that, with one click. Even better, it remembers which extensions where previously enabled and will re-enable them again with just one click. Disable Extensions Temporarily is easy to use and free.
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Reviews (78 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-03-23
Dmitry K.

It used to be a great extension, but now it doesn't work. It disables your extensions and won't let you re-enable them.

★☆☆☆☆2026-03-08
Joshua Smith

Disables all, re-enables none.

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-17
aki play

Broken. It does not re-enable anymore

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-25
Shakeim Peoples

Doesn't work anymore. Please don't install this.

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-23
Paul Moon

Stopped working months ago. Should be banned from the Chrome Web Store.

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-01
Tony Henrich

Disables all the extensions and clicking on the button again doesn't reenable them. Piece of junk. This extension should be removed from the store.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-21
simon mackenzie

Works fine to disable extensions but they all disappear from the toolbar and don't come back when you reenable.

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-23
Google User

Noticing it "deletes" my enabled extensions after a few minutes of disabling all extensions. Fix please. Plus. Why change the color to red?Uninstalled!

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-11
DRG

It used to work fine but now when reenabling extensions, all extension show as disabled and you need to reenable each one at a time.

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-09
David Sutphin

Don't waste your time. Turns them off. That's it. It will not turn them back on.

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-14
László Dobó

Really not usable as is. Will disable but not re-enable. I'll look for other.

★☆☆☆☆2025-05-28
Will

Broken.

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-26
Anders Seistrup

No longer works

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-17
Anthony Lago

Extension broken. Deleting until they fix it but it's been weeks and it looks like they just don't care.

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-07
DicerX

Talk about if it ain't broke don't fix it. I have only seen an update just as bad from Sonos when they bricked half their speakers in one night.

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-06
Aarya Deshpande

The recent update broke the extension completely - it only disables extensions but doesn't re-enable them. I had several extensions turned on, and I do not have a record of which ones were on to provide the web experience I curated a long time back. I will be deleting the extension for one of the alternatives until a fix arrives.

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-05
Gabriel Crossan

It's broken now - re-enabling doesn't reactivate extensions.

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-03
PMN Online

after recent update few days back, this extension is dead, it disables all and does not re enable all.... deleting this extension now till fixes come, very bad ...

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-31
Gish Kishor

Dunno what they changed other than the colour chanching, but it bugs out and just changes to green when I try to re-enable my extensions. Stopped working since 30/03/2025.

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-09
Google User (M. B.)

Recently extension seems to have become malicious. Page redirects when searching. Uninstalling or disabling extension resolved the issue. Coincidence?

★☆☆☆☆2023-01-10
ATF

not working ..after disable it dont get enable

★☆☆☆☆2022-12-29
Thomas Wypa

No longer works as of December 22

★☆☆☆☆2022-10-16
slysnake96

I tried to use this extension to diagnose which ones were causing issues and it made everything 100x worse. I now have roughly 10 duplicates of each extension on my toolbar now.

★☆☆☆☆2021-04-23
Seth GG

DO NOT INSTALL, resets extension settings

★☆☆☆☆2020-12-08
Kuku h

Doesn't get rid of the puzzle piece.

★☆☆☆☆2020-02-24
Ed Lau

I was very annoyed that it closed many of my open tabs, as well as removing from my history, so I could not recover them. Although, it did indeed disable all my extensions. I enabled them by hand, as I was hoping to use this tool to debug what extensions were causing an issue with another. And the tabs I had open, were not interacting directly with any extensions I had loaded.

★☆☆☆☆2019-06-26
Artem Russakovskii

This extension did the job, but when reactivating extensions, it didn't re-add the icons to the right of the url bar and stuffed them all into the overflow menu. This is not a documented side effect, though I do see some others mention it now, so it gets a 1 star unless fixed (which I doubt it will be considering it was last updated in 2012).

★☆☆☆☆2019-06-21
Stephen S

Ask me 5 years ago if I would of moved from Firefox to chrome and I would of laughed in your face. So many plugins available like this one. Just missing multirow toolbar but I can live with that! EDIT: No. It doesn't remember if the icon is hidden from the chrome menu or not. 5 star to 1. Also turns on all the extensions that were previosly disabled. Just some friendly cristisim. if that was fixed then 5 stars once again.

★☆☆☆☆2018-03-21
Brad Hebert

There was no warning that my theme would disappear and all extensions would be hidden from the toolbar. I just wanted to disable them temporarily, not move everything around and permanently remove my theme...

★☆☆☆☆2017-11-30
Matt Pinelli

i can disable them then i have to manually enable. just wont work for me.

★☆☆☆☆2017-10-10
Ray Stroud

It made me lose the theme I had, and I couldn't find it again. Wish I had read the reviews first.

★☆☆☆☆2017-10-07
Ian Spradling

Hardly ever works. Often it won't turn anything back on and you have to open extension and turn them back on yourself.

★☆☆☆☆2017-09-12
Scott

Removes theme and extension saved next to address bar. Doesn't restore them.

★☆☆☆☆2017-07-22
Johannes Deden

Removes design and temporarly ALL extensions. you can't adjust it to a specific extension

★☆☆☆☆2017-02-09
Frank Utne

WARNING!!! This extension closes most of your tabs in all your windows and removes all the extension icons next to the omnibox. Be sure to have Session Buddy installed to recover your tabs! Fortunately I did. You can drag the right edge of the omnibox (url bar) to restore the icons. It is a good idea but a very poor implementation. You click the button, you wait for all your extension icons to disappear, one-by-one, s-l-o-w-l-y, your tabs are closed behind the scenes, and the tab you are focused on disappears for a while, then reappears, and it doesn't even get refreshed—you have to manually refresh it! Then you have to restore all your lost tabs manually IF you are lucky to have a session manager that saved them for you. Then you have to drag the right end of the omnibox to restore your extension icons. What I expected was a simple toggling of extensions with one click. What I got was shocking and unsettling. Fortunately for me, I was able to recover from this desecration of my browser. There isn't a single good feature about this extension's interface.

★☆☆☆☆2016-10-15
Kevin Rooney

(4/25/2025 update) It was great. It's nonfunctional now and has been for weeks. Looking for an alternative.

★☆☆☆☆2016-09-26
CT Mason

i have a Theme installed on Chrome. Everytime i use this extension it removed my Theme and i keep having to reinstall it

★☆☆☆☆2016-09-19

I lost both my theme and a bunch of open tabs. It did however allow me to download something that seemed to have an extension interfering with it. I DROPPED THIS TO ONE STAR. I came home and found all of my tabs lost there even though I didn't run the extension there. Yes, I know it installed and uninstalled itself when I did it at work, but it shouldn't have messed with my open tabs at home.

★☆☆☆☆2016-09-15
Jaroslaw Istok

The simple way would be to deactivate plugin just in browser stripe/bar (right click?) thay would than change colour to gray...

★☆☆☆☆2015-11-21
suchskill gaming

how to use it

★☆☆☆☆2015-09-18
Luke Flegg

Used to work sometimes but now every time it just permanently kills all of my extensions and I have to manually turn them all back on and re-position them into my quick access bar, completely defeating the point and wasting loads of time.

★☆☆☆☆2015-09-14
Chris Rickels

Broke several sites including breaking the menu for my online banking. Not ideal!

★★☆☆☆2025-08-10
Mary Bryant

Used to work well but about a month or so ago it stopped reenabling the extensions. By design this was a lovely tool for when a website did not work and it was not an ad blocker causing the issue I could just disable extensions to fix the problem and not worry about which one broke whatever site it was. Now it needs an update

★★☆☆☆2025-04-10
Rodney Andersen

Really not usable as is. Will disable but not re-enable. I'll look for other.

★★☆☆☆2025-04-09
Valerie Bruce

Same issue as others. Since I updated the extension, it disables, but does not reenable them. Hoping this will get resolved quickly.

★★☆☆☆2025-04-09
Coolliam !

great, thank you for disabling all my extensions without turning them back on. Worked for all these years, sad to have to uninstall.

★★☆☆☆2024-02-06
Tue Gaston

Used to work like a charm - but lately it seems to have trouble turning extensions back on; I need to do that manually every time.

★★☆☆☆2022-06-05
Rob Psalmen

If you disable your extensions with this tool and you reenable them the orderof the icons are random. Not funny.....

★★☆☆☆2022-03-19
Frédéric HAUGUEL

Apparently, it doesn't work anymore :/

★★☆☆☆2019-01-27
Legion

Yes, it disables extensions temporarily. But it also deleted my theme, and removed the extensions displayed in toolbar when I re-enabled them.

Permissions (1)

Permissions

management Can manage other installed extensions

Details

Version 1.2
Updated Mar 30, 2025
Size 40.15KiB
First Seen Mar 28, 2026