Settings

The Settings page of the extension has five sections: Account, JavaScript rules, Toolbar icon, Data sources and privacy and Keyboard shortcuts. The extension saves each change immediately.

Before you startCopy Anchor Link

To open Settings, open the popup and click Settings in the Tools group of the sidebar. Settings opens in a new tab.

If you did not accept the Terms yet, Settings shows the welcome screen first. See Accept the Terms.

AccountCopy Anchor Link

If you are not signed in, the section shows two buttons:

• Start free opens the sign-up page of VitalSentinel.
• Sign in with VitalSentinel links the extension to your account. See Sign in.

If you are signed in, the section shows your name or email address and "Signed in with VitalSentinel". It also lists the workspaces that the extension can use. Click Sign out to sign out.

JavaScript rulesCopy Anchor Link

This section lists the JavaScript rules that you made, and lets you add, change, remove and export rules. See JavaScript switcher.

Toolbar iconCopy Anchor Link

See Toolbar badge and Domain Rating.

Data sources and privacyCopy Anchor Link

When you turn off a switch, its requests stop immediately.

Page historyCopy Anchor Link

The Remember pages switch controls the section Changed since your last visit in the Overview report.

• To delete the stored summaries, click Clear history. The message shows the number of pages that the extension deleted, or "Nothing to clear".
• If you turn off the switch, the extension also deletes all the stored summaries.

Offline modeCopy Anchor Link

When offline mode is on, the extension makes no request to VitalSentinel and to no other host except the site that you are on:

• No Domain Rating lookup. The badge shows no Domain Rating.
• No VitalSentinel data, no sign-in and no sign-out request. The VitalSentinel data shows "Offline mode is on. Turn it off in Settings to load this."
• No usage and error counts. The extension deletes the counts that it did not send yet.
• No favicon in the Google snippet preview.
• No images, not even from the site that you are on, because an image can redirect to another host.
• No sitemaps from other hosts.
• Link checks only for links on the same host.

The extension still fetches robots.txt, the sitemaps and the raw HTML from the site that you are on.

Usage and error countsCopy Anchor Link

The counts help VitalSentinel fix bugs and improve features. The extension sends one report for each day that you used it, on the next day. It sends the report without a sign-in token, cookies or any identifier. They never contain addresses, domains, page content or check results. See Privacy and permissions.

If you turn off the switch, the extension deletes the counts that it did not send yet.

Keyboard shortcutsCopy Anchor Link

Alt+Shift+Q turns JavaScript on or off for the current site. To change the shortcut, click Change shortcuts. The shortcuts page of the browser opens.

RelatedCopy Anchor Link

• Install the extension - the welcome screen and your first choices
• Toolbar badge and Domain Rating - the badge and its colors
• Privacy and permissions - what the extension stores and sends