Add an options page so that we can disable functionality for some pages/sites

[chrisuehlinger]

I love this extension for its simplicity, but I've been having a problem recently: When editing text in textareas in Visual Studio Team Services, using Backspace to delete a character now causes me to leave the page I'm on.

It'd be awesome if there was an options page where I can specify a regex blacklist of pages (or even just a list of domains) to not hit with this extension, then have the extension check the URL of the page on load.

I've done work like this before with Chrome extensions, and I'd be down to do the dev work myself, but before I do I just want to make sure you'd be willing to accept a PR.

[oslego]

Hi, Chris!

Yes, the option to disable the extension for specific pages is the most requested feature. I wanted to work on this, but never got to it.

I'd be happy to review and accept a PR that adds this. But bear in mind that the code for this extension is intentionally simple. The extension relies on user trust because it requires sensitive permissions (read/write on all pages). I want people to be able to quickly glance over it and convince themselves that it's not malicious.

For that reason, I'd be more inclined to a simple blocking solution per-URL or per-domain, like AdBlock's "Don't run on this page/domain", as opposed to user-supplied RegEx which introduces its own set of complexity (CRUD interface, validation, etc).

Also, this blocking mechanism will be hit on every page load so it has to be fast and not slow down pages in a perceivable way.

What sort of solution architecture do you have in mind?