Is it possible to turn on “Disable JavaScript” when deploying uBlock Origin?

[Jayman2000]

Hello!

I’m currently working on a NixOS configuration that automatically installs and configures Firefox and uBlock Origin for me. So far, I have been able to successfully use a managed storage manifest to make uBlock Origin use a dark theme by default.

I want to make my configuration automatically turn on uBlock Origin’s “Disable JavaScript” setting. I looked through the documentation for configuring a uBlock Origin deployment, but I wasn’t able to find anything that would allow me to turn on the “Disable JavaScript” setting. Is it possible to automatically turn on “Disable JavaScript” when deploying uBlock Origin?

[gorhill]

You need to use adminSettings to set per-site switch rules: { "hostnameSwitchesString": "no-scripting: * true\n" }

[Jayman2000]

It worked!

Here’s what my ~/.mozilla/managed-storage/[email protected] looked like after adding adminSettings:

{
  "name": "[email protected]",
  "description": "Declarative configuration for uBlock Origin",
  "type": "storage",
  "data": {
    "adminSettings": {
      "hostnameSwitchesString": "\nno-large-media: behind-the-scene false\nno-csp-reports: * true\n\nno-scripting: * true\n"
    },
    "userSettings": [
      [
        "autoUpdate",
        "false"
      ]
    ]
  }
}

I chose to include no-large-media: behind-the-scene false\nno-csp-reports: * true since those appear to be part of the default value for "hostnameSwitchesString".