Temporarily disable Eclipse plugin

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Borek Bernard picture Borek Bernard · Jun 5, 2010 · Viewed 63.8k times · Source

Is there a way to disable an Eclipse plugin without actually uninstalling it?

(Eclipse 3.3 had a "disable" button but this is now missing from Eclipse 3.4+.)

Answer

zvikico picture zvikico · Jun 6, 2010

Some plugins allow controlling their load-on-startup behavior. These will be listed in the preferences, under General → Startup and Shutdown. If the plugin provides view, you will need to close those views (in all perspectives) for this to work.

Startup and Shutdown

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