Hans Schulz this is a good feature request. Thanks.

While, this definitely is a minor feature request I would like to case about a 60 votes on behalf of me and teams.  We have had team members who have gone back to the legacy ui just because when you open blue ocean you have a wall of favorited stuff you don't care about and it takes dozens and dozens of clicks to remove them. 

Allow us to opt out or un favorite all or something. 

I also am having this issue, and while this isn't a good long term solution, the following brought my blue ocean load times from 20s to less than a second. Go to your main dashboard where it shows your favorites and run the following JS in your browser's console:

arr = $$('div[title="Remove Favourite"]')
for (var i = 0, len = arr.length; i < len; i++) {
arr[i].click()
}

Then refresh and enter it again! Note that I had to do this ~15 times before I got through my backlog of favorites, as it was displaying a max of 100 favorites per refresh.

Here is a script for the script console to remove all favorites:

def user = User.get("<your user id>")
user.getProperty(hudson.plugins.favorite.user.FavoriteUserProperty.class).data.clear()
user.save()

so James Dumay can they just remove autofav plugin - or will that upset the apple cart? 

This seems like a great feature request (another option if paginate the fav data - but I don't think we have the means to do that now), so disabling autofav would make sense (can be a setting of the autofav plugin?)

Heres a PR that allows users to opt out of autofavorite. Need to fix up the i18n and write a test.

Code is ready for review

PR looks good - this is worth a try - may help a bunch of folks

Code changed in jenkins
User: James William Dumay
Path:
src/main/java/io/jenkins/blueocean/autofavorite/FavoritingScmListener.java
src/main/java/io/jenkins/blueocean/autofavorite/user/FavoritingUserProperty.java
src/main/resources/io/jenkins/blueocean/autofavorite/Messages.properties
src/main/resources/io/jenkins/blueocean/autofavorite/user/FavoritingUserProperty/config.jelly
src/main/resources/io/jenkins/blueocean/autofavorite/user/FavoritingUserProperty/config.properties
src/test/java/io/jenkins/blueocean/autofavorite/FavoritingScmListenerTest.java
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/blueocean-autofavorite-plugin/45f6a79e76632e9a785c392662785a8c1c42d933
Log:
JENKINS-47214 Give ability to opt out of autofavoriting (#12)

Released as 1.2.0

Should take a few hours to get into the update center.

Code changed in jenkins
User: James Dumay
Path:
src/main/java/io/jenkins/blueocean/autofavorite/FavoritingScmListener.java
src/test/java/io/jenkins/blueocean/autofavorite/FavoritingScmListenerTest.java
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/blueocean-autofavorite-plugin/0bf368e9d9b757e7c15efccaf2eb71c472a7cb44
Log:
JENKINS-47214 globally disable autofavorite using system property

-DBLUEOCEAN_FEATURE_AUTOFAVORITE_ENABLED=false

Hans Schulz I've also added another PR that provides this function as a global system property https://github.com/jenkinsci/blueocean-autofavorite-plugin/pull/13

Code changed in jenkins
User: James William Dumay
Path:
src/main/java/io/jenkins/blueocean/autofavorite/FavoritingScmListener.java
src/test/java/io/jenkins/blueocean/autofavorite/FavoritingScmListenerTest.java
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/blueocean-autofavorite-plugin/80930fe881c6b738a452e3f018c81b53b18f0fb6
Log:
JENKINS-47214 globally disable autofavorite using system property (#13)

-DBLUEOCEAN_FEATURE_AUTOFAVORITE_ENABLED=false

James Dumay I've installed the update yesterday and no autofavorites so far! Great fix, thanks!

The system oproperty seems useful and I will try it out once its in the next release.

Hans Schulz system property was added in 1.2.1 which was released to the update center

Testing Notes:
A test for this is already part of the PR.