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Introducing the new Extensions menu on the toolbar
Extensions are small applications that enhance the browser’s functionality. Once you install an extension, you can notice the extension icon appearing on the toolbar. If you have several extensions i...
OK, so I found one solution to my problem. The new Extension toolbar icon "on-off" switch is hidden in the "Settings/Appearance" menu along with other Toolbar buttons. While the Extensions button was rolled out in the latest update, the button never appeared automatically in my toolbar, which made all my extensions suddenly flood my toolbar after the update. I had the inspiration to search for it today and I found it. This makes me wonder why no one on the MS EdgeDev team mentioned this before. *Sigh* Oh, well,
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Dino_Zuma wrote:
OK, so I found one solution to my problem. The new Extension toolbar icon "on-off" switch is hidden in the "Settings/Appearance" menu along with other Toolbar buttons. While the Extensions button was rolled out in the latest update, the button never appeared automatically in my toolbar, which made all my extensions suddenly flood my toolbar after the update. I had the inspiration to search for it today and I found it. This makes me wonder why no one on the MS EdgeDev team mentioned this before. *Sigh* Oh, well,
it's not hidden. it is right in appearance settings: edge://settings/appearance
right-clicking on Edge toolbar icons also gives you the option to "customize toolbar" which takes you to the same page.
- I get that. But when the Extensions button was originally discussed in this forum, the article said it was "on the toolbar." But in my update, it never appeared. What did suddenly appear were all my icons that were previously hidden under the . . . menu. No mention was made that the on-off button was in the Appearance settings. So, I patiently waited for Extensions button to be "rolled out" to my toolbar so I could again hide many of my extensions again. It would have been good to know from the start that the on-off button was in the Appearance settings, which would have eased the frustration of others on the forum who experienced the same frustration. Food for thought.
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Dino_Zuma wrote:
I get that. But when the Extensions button was originally discussed in this forum, the article said it was "on the toolbar." But in my update, it never appeared. What did suddenly appear were all my icons that were previously hidden under the . . . menu. No mention was made that the on-off button was in the Appearance settings. So, I patiently waited for Extensions button to be "rolled out" to my toolbar so I could again hide many of my extensions again. It would have been good to know from the start that the on-off button was in the Appearance settings, which would have eased the frustration of others on the forum who experienced the same frustration. Food for thought.The post explains:
"Appearance section inside the Settings page for Edge. You can toggle the button off or on for the extensions menu to hide or show it on the toolbar. "
- Hmmm. I discounted that, thinking the new extensions button would first be "rolled out" and appear automatically before I needed to consider that option. All I saw was that my hidden extensions magically appeared with the dropdown menu option to "Hide from toolbar" greyed out. I'm not the only one this happened to, it appears. This also was all the more puzzling because on my desktop PC, when EdgeDev updated the extensions button did appear automatically and I was able to easily hide extensions from the toolbar. Wonder why the button appeared on my desktop PC and not on my laptop?