"extensions-menu-access-control" allow to disable one extension on one website

[Olivier Tassinari]

This is to report a user's frustration (mine) with the new "extensions-menu-access-control".

I have a few extensions that don't work on some websites, so I want to disable them, and only for those websites. I have turned on "Extensions Menu Access Control" in chrome://flags/. The problem is that I don't see any way of doing this.

Example of why I might want to do this: I'm developing in dev mode, but Grammarly is messing around with the DOM: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/41816. And no, I don't want to disable all my extensions on this site because I need the React devtool extension.

[Oliver Dunk]

Hi Olivier,

Thanks for the feedback - we definitely appreciate it.

At the moment, we don't have any plans to add a way of doing that. It is something we considered, and I think we might've even experimented with it, but ultimately we concluded it added too many additional states to the access extensions have. One thing we're trying to be very careful about is balancing control with simplicity, since a lot of users already have trouble understanding when extensions can run.

Oliver Dunk | DevRel, Chrome Extensions | https://developer.chrome.com/ | London, GB

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[Olivier Tassinari]

Ok, thanks for sharing.

On the goal to keep things as simple as possible, when it comes to customizing extension, happy to share the needs I have in my case:

- disabling some extensions I don't trust for a given sensitive website. e.g. Bank website. Arguably, disabling all extensions is a good options.

- disabling unnecessary extensions for the website. For examples, when developing locally, I mostly only need React, Wave, and Axe extensions. 

- disabling some extensions that break the website. e.g. Grammarly. 

- enabling some extensions for only a few websites. For example, ContactOut only for LinkedIn.

[Mythical 5th]

Olivier,

Some of your requirements can be met with an extension such as Extensify, which lets users turn sets of extensions on and off.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/extensity/jjmflmamggggndanpgfnpelongoepncg

It's not automated, but I think that's not something that can be performed well by an extension.