Bug#640957: chromium: please implement a quick way to temporarily enable/disable JS/cookies for just one tab

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

Package: chromium
Version: 13.0.782.107~r94237-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi.

I normally browse the web with JavaScript and cookies disabled.
I therefore configured Chromium setting
"Do not allow any site to run JavaScript" for JavaScript and
"Block sites from setting any data" for Cookies.

However, I sometimes need to temporarily enable JavaScript and/or
cookies for one web site that really needs one and/or the others.
In Galeon (currently my main browser) there's a quick way to enable
or disable JavaScript and cookies.
In Chromium there seems to be no alternative to adding exceptions
that you then have to manually discard. This is slow and unpractical.

I would love to see the following feature implemented.

When I browse a web site in Chromium (with JavaScript and cookies disabled)
and the web site attempts to run JavaScript code and/or to set cookies,
one or two nice icons show up in the location bar telling me that
JavaScript was blocked and cookies were rejected. There are shortcuts
from these icons to set exceptions.
Good.
There should be shortcuts from the same icons to temporarily enable
JavaScript and cookies for the current tab *only*: "temporarily" means
until the tab is closed, or until JavaScript or cookies are manually
disabled again.
There should also be shortcuts to temporarily disable JavaScript and
cookies for the current tab only, whenever they happen to be enabled
for a given web site (because of exceptions or because of previous
temporary or permanent settings...).

Please forward this feature request upstream.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-inspector 13.0.782.107~r94237-1 page inspector for the chromium br
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ii  libbz2-1.0         1.0.5-6               high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6              2.13-18               Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2          1.10.2-6.1            The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcups2           1.5.0-5               Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.4.14-1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.94-4                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-1.4-2     1.4.14b-stable-1      asynchronous event notification li
ii  libexpat1          2.0.1-7               XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libflac8           1.2.1-5               Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-3               generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6       2.4.6-2               FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1            1:4.6.1-4             GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4        2.32.4-1              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11        1.4.6-9               LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.5-3              GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.28.6-1              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.24.4-3              The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62          6b1-2                 Independent JPEG Group's JPEG runt
ii  libnspr4-0d        4.8.9-1               NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d         3.12.11-3             Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0      1.28.4-3              Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.46-3              PNG library - runtime
ii  libspeex1          1.2~rc1-1             The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libstdc++6         4.6.1-4               GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvpx0            0.9.7.p1-1            VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii  libwebp0           0.1.2-1               Lossy compression of digital photo
ii  libx11-6           2:1.4.4-1             X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6           2:1.3.0-3             X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-4          GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1        1:0.9.6-2             X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1         1.1.26-8              XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii  libxss1            1:1.2.1-2             X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  xdg-utils          1.1.0~rc1-2           desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n                 <none>     (no description available)

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