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MicrosoftIntroducing the new Extensions menu on the toolbar
Happy to see I'm not the only one who finds this a step backwards. I already sent feedback about this but I'd like to join the crowd here in my finding this "feature" awkward and not very well thought out. Honestly, who didn't know that you can hide extensions simply by dragging the search bar; and if they didn't, why add this instead of just letting them know? In any case, seeing the feedback here (and the reply to my direct feedback) I expect the old functionality to be restored and the extension button to be re-implemented as an optional addition instead of replacement of a perfectly functional feature.
- Before, users could ALSO do `right click > hide in menu`. Edge is simply copying the stupid and feedback-deaf changes that Chrome did.
- So Chrome that's used by millions of people, and has the exact same feature, is backward and bad? right.
- Geeze, Missy, your replies in this whole thread are outright condescending to customers who are upset with the changed UX. Why are you talking down to so many? It's counter-productive and altogether unexpected.
Dino_Zuma wrote:
Geeze, Missy, your replies in this whole thread are outright condescending to customers who are upset with the changed UX. Why are you talking down to so many? It's counter-productive and altogether unexpected.If you have a problem, use the report button.
Don't attack users personally.
We wouldn't know, we use Edge (Dev) otherwise we wouldn't be here :).
It does appear now (by testing) that Chrome 87 has a similar feature...
... but that still means the Edge team decided to make something similar in v90, and it's clearly hitting resistance. So they can change it (they clearly decided to release it now, seeing the blog post that all this is a reply too).
Adding a forced button in the toolbar to hide other toolbar buttons is just weird. Let us move the button away from there, so we can have the best of both worlds.
