diff --git a/resources/web/dialog/PluginsConfigDialog/index.html b/resources/web/dialog/PluginsConfigDialog/index.html
index 04225986b2..f71de49e00 100644
--- a/resources/web/dialog/PluginsConfigDialog/index.html
+++ b/resources/web/dialog/PluginsConfigDialog/index.html
@@ -41,12 +41,8 @@
         <div id="configFooter" class="config-view-footer" hidden>
           <span id="configValidation" class="config-validation" role="status" aria-live="polite"></span>
           <div class="config-actions">
-            <button id="configUseGlobalBtn" class="ButtonStyleRegular ButtonTypeChoice" type="button"
-              title="Remove the preset override and use the global configuration again">
-              Use global
-            </button>
             <button id="configRestoreBtn" class="ButtonStyleRegular ButtonTypeChoice" type="button"
-              title="Write the plugin defaults into this preset override">
+              title="Discard this preset's override and use the global configuration again">
               Restore defaults
             </button>
             <button id="configSaveBtn" class="ButtonStyleConfirm ButtonTypeChoice" type="button">Save</button>
diff --git a/resources/web/dialog/PluginsConfigDialog/index.js b/resources/web/dialog/PluginsConfigDialog/index.js
index cd7032d029..6e76cbeaa1 100644
--- a/resources/web/dialog/PluginsConfigDialog/index.js
+++ b/resources/web/dialog/PluginsConfigDialog/index.js
@@ -233,21 +233,19 @@ function UpdateConfigMeta(payload) {
 
   const meta = document.getElementById("configMeta");
   const badge = document.getElementById("configSourceBadge");
-  const useGlobal = document.getElementById("configUseGlobalBtn");
   const save = document.getElementById("configSaveBtn");
   const restore = document.getElementById("configRestoreBtn");
-  if (!meta || !badge || !useGlobal)
+  if (!meta || !badge)
     return;
 
   const source = String(payload?.source || "none");
   badge.textContent = source === "preset" ? "Preset override" :
     (source === "base" ? "Inherited from global configuration" : "No saved configuration");
-  useGlobal.hidden = !selectedHasPresetOverride;
-  useGlobal.disabled = selectedReadOnly;
   if (save)
     save.disabled = selectedReadOnly;
+  // There is nothing to discard when the preset holds no override of its own.
   if (restore)
-    restore.disabled = selectedReadOnly;
+    restore.disabled = selectedReadOnly || !selectedHasPresetOverride;
   meta.hidden = false;
 }
 
@@ -361,22 +359,11 @@ function SaveCapabilityConfig() {
   });
 }
 
-// Asks the native side to write the capability's default config over whatever is stored. The
-// defaults come from the capability's get_default_config(), never from this page — the host does not
-// know what a given plugin considers default. The native side confirms before discarding anything,
-// and replies with the same "saved" payload, so both editors reload from what was persisted.
+// Drops the preset's override, which is what "default" means here: the capability falls back to the
+// global configuration, the same as a preset that was never overridden. The native side confirms
+// before discarding it and then re-sends the capability's config, so the editors reload from what is
+// now effective rather than from what was typed.
 function RestoreCapabilityConfig() {
-  if (!selectedPluginKey || !selectedCapabilityName)
-    return;
-
-  SendMessage("restore_preset_defaults", {
-    plugin_key: selectedPluginKey,
-    capability_name: selectedCapabilityName,
-    capability_type: selectedCapabilityType
-  });
-}
-
-function UseGlobalCapabilityConfig() {
   if (!selectedPluginKey || !selectedCapabilityName || !selectedHasPresetOverride)
     return;
 
@@ -482,10 +469,6 @@ document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => {
   if (restoreBtn)
     restoreBtn.addEventListener("click", RestoreCapabilityConfig);
 
-  const useGlobalBtn = document.getElementById("configUseGlobalBtn");
-  if (useGlobalBtn)
-    useGlobalBtn.addEventListener("click", UseGlobalCapabilityConfig);
-
   const text = document.getElementById("configText");
   if (text)
     text.addEventListener("input", ValidateConfigText);
diff --git a/src/slic3r/GUI/PluginsConfigDialog.cpp b/src/slic3r/GUI/PluginsConfigDialog.cpp
index 4a539c7c55..c3227e2ecb 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/GUI/PluginsConfigDialog.cpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/GUI/PluginsConfigDialog.cpp
@@ -102,48 +102,22 @@ void PluginsConfigDialog::on_script_message(const nlohmann::json& payload)
         }
         send_capability_config(id);
         show_status(_L("Configuration updated. Save the preset to persist it."), "success");
-    } else if (command == "restore_preset_defaults") {
+    } else if (command == "remove_preset_override") {
+        // "Restore defaults" for a preset means holding no override at all: the capability goes back
+        // to the global configuration, which is where an untouched preset takes its values from. The
+        // plugin's own get_default_config() is the global config's default, not the preset's.
         if (!m_parse_error.empty()) {
             send_save_error(id, m_parse_error);
             return;
         }
 
         const int rc = wxMessageBox(wxString::Format(_L("Restore the default configuration for \"%s\"?\n\n"
-                                                        "This writes the plugin defaults into the current preset override."),
+                                                        "This discards the preset's override and uses the global configuration."),
                                                      from_u8(id.name)),
                                     _L("Restore defaults"), wxYES_NO | wxNO_DEFAULT | wxICON_WARNING, this);
         if (rc != wxYES)
             return;
 
-        const auto cap = PluginManager::instance().get_loader().get_plugin_capability_by_name(id);
-        if (!cap)
-            return;
-
-        nlohmann::json defaults;
-        try {
-            wxBusyCursor  busy;
-            PythonGILState gil;
-            defaults = cap->instance->get_default_config();
-        } catch (const std::exception& ex) {
-            // A broken plugin must not be able to wipe the stored config: store nothing and say so.
-            send_save_error(id, into_u8(GUI::format_wxstr(_L("The plugin failed to supply its default configuration (%1%)."),
-                                                          from_u8(ex.what()))));
-            return;
-        }
-
-        const MutationResult result = m_service.set_preset_override(m_overrides, id, defaults);
-        if (!result.ok) {
-            send_save_error(id, result.error);
-            return;
-        }
-        send_capability_config(id);
-        show_status(_L("Default configuration restored. Save the preset to persist it."), "success");
-    } else if (command == "remove_preset_override") {
-        if (!m_parse_error.empty()) {
-            send_save_error(id, m_parse_error);
-            return;
-        }
-
         const MutationResult result = m_service.remove_preset_override(m_overrides, id);
         if (!result.ok) {
             send_save_error(id, result.error);
diff --git a/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginConfig.cpp b/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginConfig.cpp
index 33ad9fe67b..f36d038b39 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginConfig.cpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginConfig.cpp
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <slic3r/GUI/format.hpp>
 #include <slic3r/plugin/PluginLoader.hpp>
 #include <slic3r/plugin/PluginManager.hpp>
+#include <slic3r/plugin/PresetPluginConfig.hpp>
 #include <slic3r/plugin/PythonInterpreter.hpp>
 #include <slic3r/plugin/PythonPluginInterface.hpp>
 #include <stdexcept>
@@ -43,6 +44,25 @@ std::pair<std::string, std::string> capability_identity(const PluginCapabilityIn
     return id;
 }
 
+// The identity above, completed with the type, which decides which preset may override the
+// capability (see preset_type_for_capability). Taken from the instance rather than from the loader's
+// registry: a capability calling get_config() from on_load() is not registered yet, and it must
+// still see its preset's config. get_type() is the plugin's own method, so a raising one costs it
+// only the preset layer — Unknown names no preset, and the base config answers as it always did.
+PluginCapabilityIdentifier capability_full_identity(const PluginCapabilityInterface& capability, const char* api_name)
+{
+    const auto [plugin_key, capability_name] = capability_identity(capability, api_name);
+
+    PluginCapabilityType type = PluginCapabilityType::Unknown;
+    try {
+        type = capability.get_type();
+    } catch (const std::exception& ex) {
+        BOOST_LOG_TRIVIAL(warning) << "Capability '" << capability_name << "' of plugin '" << plugin_key
+                                   << "': get_type() failed (" << ex.what() << "); reading the base config only";
+    }
+    return {type, capability_name, plugin_key};
+}
+
 } // namespace
 
 void PluginConfig::load()
@@ -178,18 +198,19 @@ bool PluginConfig::dirty() const
 
 nlohmann::json capability_get_config(const PluginCapabilityInterface& capability)
 {
-    const auto [plugin_key, capability_name] = capability_identity(capability, "get_config");
-
-    const BaseConfig config = PluginManager::instance().get_config().get_config(plugin_key, capability_name);
-    // Never saved: hand back an empty object so a plugin can index the result unconditionally.
-    return config.empty() ? nlohmann::json::object() : config.config;
+    // The active preset's override, when it has one, is the config this run must use: it is what the
+    // user attached to the preset being sliced, and config.json is the fallback. The resolution is
+    // shared with the dialogs, so a capability reads back exactly the config its UI showed as
+    // effective. Stored in neither layer: an empty object, so a plugin can index it unconditionally.
+    return active_capability_config(capability_full_identity(capability, "get_config")).config;
 }
 
 std::string capability_get_config_version(const PluginCapabilityInterface& capability)
 {
-    const auto [plugin_key, capability_name] = capability_identity(capability, "get_config_version");
-
-    return PluginManager::instance().get_config().get_config(plugin_key, capability_name).plugin_version;
+    // The version that wrote the config get_config() just handed out, whichever layer that was: the
+    // two must come from the same layer, or a plugin would migrate one layer's config by another's
+    // version stamp.
+    return active_capability_config(capability_full_identity(capability, "get_config_version")).stored_plugin_version;
 }
 
 bool capability_save_config(const PluginCapabilityInterface& capability, const nlohmann::json& config)
diff --git a/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginConfig.hpp b/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginConfig.hpp
index f2f9f111f5..5da2b97384 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginConfig.hpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginConfig.hpp
@@ -151,12 +151,17 @@ private:
 // passed in from Python, so a capability cannot reach another capability's config.
 // Throw std::runtime_error (surfacing to Python as RuntimeError) on an unmaterialized instance.
 
-// Only the user-editable cap_config. An empty object when nothing has been saved yet.
+// Only the user-editable cap_config, resolved the way the config UI presents it: the active preset's
+// override when it has one, otherwise the config stored here (see active_capability_config). An
+// empty object when neither layer holds one.
 nlohmann::json capability_get_config(const PluginCapabilityInterface& capability);
-// The plugin version that last wrote the entry, so a plugin can migrate a stale cap_config.
-// Empty when the capability has no stored config.
+// The plugin version that last wrote the config get_config() returns — the same layer it came from —
+// so a plugin can migrate a stale cap_config. Empty when the capability has no stored config.
 std::string capability_get_config_version(const PluginCapabilityInterface& capability);
 // Replaces cap_config and persists. Host-managed identity and version metadata are preserved.
+// Writes the store here, never a preset: presets are the user's to edit, and a plugin saving from a
+// worker thread cannot mark one dirty. A capability whose active preset overrides it will therefore
+// keep reading that override back, not what it saved.
 bool capability_save_config(const PluginCapabilityInterface& capability, const nlohmann::json& config);
 
 } // namespace Slic3r
diff --git a/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginResolver.cpp b/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginResolver.cpp
index c8a42fc725..c102dc50b0 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginResolver.cpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginResolver.cpp
@@ -184,6 +184,36 @@ std::vector<PluginCapabilityIdentifier> capabilities_in_use(Preset::Type type, c
     return result;
 }
 
+Preset::Type preset_type_for_capability(PluginCapabilityType type)
+{
+    if (type == PluginCapabilityType::Unknown)
+        return Preset::TYPE_INVALID;
+
+    // The three typed option lists are disjoint, so the first that holds the key names its owner.
+    const auto owner_of_option = [](const std::string& key) {
+        const auto holds = [&key](const std::vector<std::string>& keys) {
+            return std::find(keys.begin(), keys.end(), key) != keys.end();
+        };
+        if (holds(Preset::print_options()))
+            return Preset::TYPE_PRINT;
+        if (holds(Preset::filament_options()))
+            return Preset::TYPE_FILAMENT;
+        if (holds(Preset::printer_options()))
+            return Preset::TYPE_PRINTER;
+        return Preset::TYPE_INVALID;
+    };
+
+    const std::string type_key = plugin_capability_type_to_string(type);
+    for (const auto& [key, def] : print_config_def.options) {
+        if (def.plugin_type != type_key)
+            continue;
+        const Preset::Type owner = owner_of_option(key);
+        if (owner != Preset::TYPE_INVALID)
+            return owner;
+    }
+    return Preset::TYPE_INVALID;
+}
+
 static std::string resolve_cloud_base_url()
 {
     std::string cloud_base_url = "https://cloud.orcaslicer.com";
diff --git a/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginResolver.hpp b/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginResolver.hpp
index 9a2e324162..c7c02173ca 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginResolver.hpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/plugin/PluginResolver.hpp
@@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ std::string resolve_recovery_url(const PluginCapabilityRef& ref);
 std::vector<PluginCapabilityRef> referenced_capabilities(Preset::Type type, const Preset& preset);
 std::vector<PluginCapabilityIdentifier> capabilities_in_use(Preset::Type type, const Preset& preset);
 
+// The preset type that owns capabilities of `type` — the one whose presets can reference them and
+// therefore carry their overrides. Derived from the ConfigDef rather than hardcoded: a plugin-backed
+// option names the capability type it accepts (ConfigOptionDef::plugin_type) and belongs to exactly
+// one preset type, so declaring the option is all it takes to map a new capability type.
+// TYPE_INVALID when no option accepts the type (nothing can reference it, so no preset owns it).
+Preset::Type preset_type_for_capability(PluginCapabilityType type);
+
 // The capabilities the active preset(s) of `type` reference (see referenced_capabilities) and that
 // are loaded right now: the set that can actually be configured. Missing and broken refs are absent,
 // having no instance to ask for a config UI or defaults. A loaded-but-disabled capability IS listed —
diff --git a/src/slic3r/plugin/PresetPluginConfig.cpp b/src/slic3r/plugin/PresetPluginConfig.cpp
index 46e721790b..61ed41dda2 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/plugin/PresetPluginConfig.cpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/plugin/PresetPluginConfig.cpp
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 #include "PresetPluginConfig.hpp"
 
 #include "PluginManager.hpp"
+#include "PluginResolver.hpp"
+
+#include <slic3r/GUI/GUI_App.hpp>
+
+#include <boost/log/trivial.hpp>
+#include <libslic3r/PresetBundle.hpp>
+#include <wx/app.h>
 
 namespace Slic3r {
 
@@ -19,6 +26,48 @@ std::string running_plugin_version(const std::string& plugin_key)
     return descriptor.installed_version.empty() ? descriptor.version : descriptor.installed_version;
 }
 
+// Null wherever the plugin host runs without the GUI app (the unit tests): there are no presets
+// then, only the base config. wxGetApp() dereferences the app unconditionally, so ask wxWidgets.
+const PresetBundle* active_preset_bundle()
+{
+    const auto* app = dynamic_cast<const GUI::GUI_App*>(wxApp::GetInstance());
+    return app == nullptr ? nullptr : app->preset_bundle;
+}
+
+// The active preset that can carry an override for a capability of `type`. Edited, not selected: an
+// override typed into the tab configures the next slice the same way every other unsaved setting does.
+const Preset* active_preset_for(Preset::Type type)
+{
+    const PresetBundle* bundle = active_preset_bundle();
+    if (bundle == nullptr)
+        return nullptr;
+
+    switch (type) {
+    case Preset::TYPE_PRINT: return &bundle->prints.get_edited_preset();
+    case Preset::TYPE_PRINTER: return &bundle->printers.get_edited_preset();
+
+    // Deliberately unimplemented, not forgotten.
+    //
+    // There is no single active filament preset: one is selected per extruder, and a capability
+    // calls get_config() without saying which extruder it is running for, so we cannot tell which
+    // of them owns the config. Guessing (first override wins, or extruder 0) would hand a plugin
+    // another extruder's settings and look like a plugin bug, so it reads the base config instead —
+    // the value it had before presets could override anything.
+    //
+    // Nothing reaches this today: preset_type_for_capability only names TYPE_FILAMENT once a
+    // filament option declares a plugin_type, and none does (the two plugin-backed options are
+    // print and printer ones). Solve it with the first filament-backed capability, by pushing the
+    // extruder onto the plugin call context the trampoline already maintains
+    // (ScopedPluginAuditContext) along with the override text snapshotted off the preset, and
+    // resolving the preset here from that instead of from the bundle. The extruder must be optional:
+    // whole slicing steps (posSlice, psGCodePostProcess) span every extruder and have no current
+    // filament, and this fallback is the honest answer for them.
+    case Preset::TYPE_FILAMENT: return nullptr;
+
+    default: return nullptr;
+    }
+}
+
 } // namespace
 
 std::string plugin_overrides_of(const Preset& preset)
@@ -125,4 +174,22 @@ MutationResult PresetPluginConfigService::remove_preset_override(CapabilityConfi
     return result;
 }
 
+EffectiveCapabilityConfig active_capability_config(const PluginCapabilityIdentifier& id)
+{
+    const PresetPluginConfigService service;
+
+    CapabilityConfigDocument overrides;
+    if (const Preset* preset = active_preset_for(preset_type_for_capability(id.type))) {
+        std::string error;
+        if (!parse_plugin_overrides(plugin_overrides_of(*preset), overrides, error)) {
+            // Text we cannot read is not an override. Say so and resolve against the base config,
+            // which is what the capability ran with before anything was written into the preset.
+            BOOST_LOG_TRIVIAL(error) << "Preset \"" << preset->name << "\": " << error;
+            overrides = CapabilityConfigDocument();
+        }
+    }
+
+    return service.get_effective_config(overrides, id);
+}
+
 } // namespace Slic3r
diff --git a/src/slic3r/plugin/PresetPluginConfig.hpp b/src/slic3r/plugin/PresetPluginConfig.hpp
index f714af4419..315a73ad3c 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/plugin/PresetPluginConfig.hpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/plugin/PresetPluginConfig.hpp
@@ -67,4 +67,15 @@ public:
                                                      const PluginCapabilityIdentifier& id) const;
 };
 
+// The same `preset override -> base config -> none` resolution, against the preset that is active
+// right now instead of a document the caller holds: this is what a running capability reads through
+// the Python config API, so a preset that overrides a capability configures the slice it drives.
+//
+// Only one preset type can reference a given capability type (preset_type_for_capability), so there
+// is exactly one preset to consult. Filament capabilities are the exception and are not supported:
+// the active filament preset is per-extruder and a capability does not say which extruder it runs
+// for, so they read the base config. See active_preset_for() for why, and for what it will take to
+// lift that. Base config also in a host with no preset bundle (the plugin unit tests).
+EffectiveCapabilityConfig active_capability_config(const PluginCapabilityIdentifier& id);
+
 } // namespace Slic3r
diff --git a/tests/slic3rutils/test_plugin_capabilities_in_use.cpp b/tests/slic3rutils/test_plugin_capabilities_in_use.cpp
index c6c219cf26..faedb8804c 100644
--- a/tests/slic3rutils/test_plugin_capabilities_in_use.cpp
+++ b/tests/slic3rutils/test_plugin_capabilities_in_use.cpp
@@ -73,3 +73,19 @@ TEST_CASE("referenced_capabilities skips malformed manifest entries", "[PluginRe
 
     CHECK(capability_names(referenced_capabilities(Preset::TYPE_PRINT, preset)) == std::vector<std::string>{"CapA"});
 }
+
+TEST_CASE("preset_type_for_capability names the preset type whose options reference the capability", "[PluginResolver]")
+{
+    // Read out of the ConfigDef: slicing_pipeline_plugin is a print option, printer_agent a printer
+    // one. Declaring a plugin_type on an option is what puts its capability type on this map.
+    CHECK(preset_type_for_capability(PluginCapabilityType::SlicingPipeline) == Preset::TYPE_PRINT);
+    CHECK(preset_type_for_capability(PluginCapabilityType::PrinterConnection) == Preset::TYPE_PRINTER);
+}
+
+TEST_CASE("preset_type_for_capability leaves capability types no option accepts unowned", "[PluginResolver]")
+{
+    // Nothing can reference these from a preset, so no preset can override them either: they read
+    // their config from the base config.json alone.
+    CHECK(preset_type_for_capability(PluginCapabilityType::Automation) == Preset::TYPE_INVALID);
+    CHECK(preset_type_for_capability(PluginCapabilityType::Unknown) == Preset::TYPE_INVALID);
+}