Enable/disable Chrome extensions per site (via white or blacklist)

Question

Is it possible to create a black or whitelist for Chrome extensions that works per site? I find there's a few extensions that I find extremely useful on some sites, but clash with others.

Solution 1

If you don't mind installing an extra extension, this might be useful: Extension Manager

I was looking for a solution to the same problem. I only need to disable the extension on a single domain, whitelisting all other domains would not be a good idea. So I found this extension allows you to create rules, which you can use it as a blacklist.

Example

Solution 2

As of January 2021, Chrome 88 only lets you run extensions in 3 modes:

• On click
• On specific sites (i.e. a whitelist / allow-list)
• On all sites

Unfortunately there is no built-in way to set a block-list of sites for an extension (i.e.. "On all sites except...").

Solution 3

Yes, you you can modify what sites different extensions can run on by the following (some extensions cannot be bound to specific sites e.g., Google Docs):

On your computer, open Chrome.

At the top right, click the three stacked dots, 'More tools' and then 'Extensions'.

On the extension, click 'Details'.

Under 'Permissions', you can add or remove a site:

Add: Change 'Allow this extension to read and change all your data on websites that you visit' to 'On specific sites'.

Type the URL of the specific site you want it to run on, then click 'Add'. You can add more URL's by clicking 'Add a new page' once you have added a URL.

Remove: To the right of the site you have added, tap 'More' and then 'Remove' if you would like to remove its access to the site.

You can also set 'Allow this extension to read and change all your data on websites that you visit' to 'On click', so that the extension will run only when you click it.

Also, no matter what website you are on, you can always temporarily reactivate the extension by clicking on it, then clicking 'Reload'.

Hopefully this helps.

Comments

[Richard]

Blacklist would have been better, but this will work for now. Thanks :)

[Richard]

This is the extension I used to use but you could only white list before. This is perfect.

[pupsozeyde]

I cannot see "add" nor "remove" under 'Permissions'.

[Aiken Drum]

I looked at the source code for this extension, and it seems really hinky to me. Minified to the point of obfuscation, has a reference to doubleclick.net, has code to find ftp/https/mailto links, and, weirdly, has some kind of url-creating functionality that works differently 1% of the time (via random number) when it's called. I'm not a web dev, but it does all kinds of stuff that isn't related to managing extensions, and I feel like it's just too suspicious.

[Collin Chaffin]

Dai is correct. Not only is it assinine, but even worse Google hasn't bothered to update their documentation, which still walks step by step through screens that no longer (as of Chrome 88) even exist.

[Admin]

Is there a way or set of URL patterns in to allow it on all websites, but specify exceptions? I just want to black-list certain websites on which a certain plugin causes trouble.