Pause - Stop Mindless Browsing

Pause distracting websites before they open. Be mindful and intentional with your browsing using this simple extension.

Total ratings

3.94 (Rating count: 17)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Provides a useful pause to think about visiting distracting sites
  • Aesthetically pleasing and simple to use
  • Improves browsing habits by adding friction to mindless browsing
  • Easy to disable pause when needed, providing a balanced approach
  • Helps build self-control with gentle nudges instead of hard blocks
Cons
  • Interrupts every window or tab spawned by monitored services
  • Blocking google.com also blocks all Google services, causing inconvenience
  • Pausing previously opened tabs may lead to lost queue or progress on platforms like YouTube
  • Contains annoying ads for subscription services
  • Not functioning for some users
Most mentioned
  • Issues with Google services being affected by the pause
  • Pausing user experience leading to interruptions
  • Overall effectiveness in helping users control their browsing habits
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Recent rating average: 4.00
All time rating average: 3.94
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Date Author Rating Comment
2024-09-08 Firefox user 18587485 Includes an ad for a subscription service. "But you can try for free!" Begone. Enjoy 1 star.
2024-07-27 Firefox user 17823230 I found this tactic to be really annoying for a while but then I started to appreciate the little bit of head space it gave me whenever I opened a new tab or something like that.
2022-12-23 GanJingWorld Gan Jing World is a clean, curated universe and a dynamic, overlapping network of integrated platforms and services. ==> https://www.ganjing.com
2022-06-04 Muscogulus Helpful at first, but the extension interrupts every window or tab spawned by a monitored service as if it is the first one. I sometimes feel I have spent a large portion of my allotted time waiting on the Pause green butterfly. If you are setting up a new account at a business site that uses, say, Twitter for authentication, the tiny window that pops up gives you the green butterfly instead of the form you need.
2021-11-05 Virat Saluja Would love to give this extension 5 stars! But please look into the issue of Blocking "google.com" seems to block all the google services along with the search page. (Example: gmail.com, google drive etc.)
2021-10-20 Bflat
2021-08-16 Michael
2021-07-26 Firefox user 16965144 I loved this extension, it's perfect for adding extra friction on mindless sites, until I added google. I wanted to thwart mindless googling but it now shows up on every google product, including google docs which, when I open, needs to be used immediately before I forget what I was going to type. There needs to be a way to un-indicate certain urls within a domain.
2020-12-06 Brixter I just started to use it but I like having the control to think about if I really want to visit a site.
2020-12-06 Firefox user 15606729 It gives me time to think if I really want to go to a distracting sites or not. It's good to build self-control.
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