2016/09/20

QuickBlock User Guide

[This document is also available in Japanese (日本語).]

0 Overview

QuickBlock is a browser extension that allows you to temporarily block images and scripts (JavaScript).

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QuickBlock is made up of two content blockers (an image blocker and a script blocker) that can be turned on and off separately. Each content blocker internally uses your browser's built-in content blocker[1] that targets the same content type to block contents efficiently. For example, if you turn on the image blocker, it temporarily takes control of the built-in image blocker to block images for all websites. And if you turn it off, the built-in image blocker is restored to its original settings.

One-letter symbols displayed on top of the toolbar icon indicate content types currently blocked by QuickBlock ("I" for images and "S" for scripts).

1 How to use QuickBlock

You can turn content blockers on and off using:

  • toolbar icon
  • keyboard shortcut

1.1 Toolbar icon

The toolbar icon has two modes:

  • one-click mode (enabled by default)
  • popup mode

You can change the toolbar icon mode in the options page[2].


Options page

1.1.1 One-click mode

In one-click mode, each time you click the toolbar icon, content blockers that target content types selected in the options page are turned on and off alternately.

1.1.2 Popup mode

To enable the popup mode, open the options page and uncheck "Enable one-click mode".


Popup

To turn content blockers on and off:

  1. Click the toolbar icon to open a popup.
  2. Select content types to block.
  3. Click the Apply button.

Click the Clear button to turn them all off.

1.2 Keyboard shortcut

You can also turn content blockers on and off by keyboard shortcut. To do that, you need to set up a "block command" first. You can have up to 6 block commands set up with different configurations.

To set up block commands:

  1. Open the extension manager[3] and assign keyboard shortcuts to block commands that you want to use.
  2. Open the options page.
  3. Select a block command to set up.
  4. Select content types to block with the selected command.
  5. Check or uncheck "Block and unblock contents alternately". If checked, the selected command behaves in the same manner as the toolbar icon in one-click mode. If unchecked, executing the selected command always turns on content blockers that target the content types selected in the previous step.

Extension manager

Options page

2 Copyright and license information

2.1 Source code

Copyright (c) 2012-2018, 2021 U. Mitaka. All rights reserved.

2.2 Images

Notes

  1. [Chrome] Select > Settings > Privacy and security > Site Settings > Content, or open chrome://settings/content . [back]
  2. [Chrome] Right-click the toolbar icon and select Options, or select > More tools > Extensions > Details > Extension options. [back]
  3. [Chrome] Select > More tools > Extensions > ≡ > Keyboard shortcuts, or open chrome://extensions/shortcuts . [back]

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