Safari 17 Disable Extensions

Hi. Since I installed Sonoma with Safari 17, I've lost the ability to disable and enable extensions. It used to be under the Develop menu and now it's not there. I've searched through the menus and I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know how to do this now? I find it necessary to be able to do this for some sites I go to that won't load because of the extensions I use. I don't want to do this in the Safari settings because that only allows you to do it one extension at a time, which isn't realistic to use. Thanks for your help.

MacBook Pro (M2, 2022)

Posted on Sep 27, 2023 07:51 AM

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Posted on Oct 11, 2023 09:24 AM

Why would Apple Choose to Complicate a previous 1 click process to disable all extensions and replace it with now, hoop jumping, multiple clicking to toggle off individual extensions ? I thought Apple / Safari was interested in a streamlined user experience ? Who is the head developer who signed off on this? I'ld like to contact them if possible. Thanks.

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Oct 11, 2023 09:24 AM in response to CoachCasa

Why would Apple Choose to Complicate a previous 1 click process to disable all extensions and replace it with now, hoop jumping, multiple clicking to toggle off individual extensions ? I thought Apple / Safari was interested in a streamlined user experience ? Who is the head developer who signed off on this? I'ld like to contact them if possible. Thanks.

Sep 30, 2023 01:18 PM in response to Lee_ms

Lee_ms thanks for your reply. I know I can uncheck all of these, but I have about 10 extensions loaded and there are plenty of times I have to turn them off. I don't want to have to go to each one individually to them off and back on. You used to be able to go into the develop menu and click one thing to turn all of them off and then back on. I'm hoping there is a way to do that still.

Oct 11, 2023 01:48 PM in response to maxx1111

Indeed, this is a major pain for web developers. A simple one-click solution is replaced by a tedious process. Quite the contrary of a streamlined user experience for web developers. Hard to understand how this could be signed off. So please add my voice to the request for bringing back “Disable extensions“ to the Develop menu.


FWIW I submitted a request through the Feedback Assistant a minute ago.

Oct 25, 2023 02:07 PM in response to CoachCasa

I also submitted a request, for all the good it will do. There are times that I just don't understand why Apple makes changes to things that work well. It's almost as if someone believes that you have to make changes for the sake of making changes. I've stuck with Safari, but I've also been using Arc a bunch over the last couple of months. When I come to a page that's troublesome because I can't turn off my extensions, I switch over to Arc and use that.

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