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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...
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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?
- Oh that's because this is part of the CFR
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/controlled-feature-roll-outs-in-microsoft-edge/m-p/763678/thread-id/1358- Thanks for clearing that up, that's good to know. I hope others on this thread see your replies to my questions. I think it would clear up lots of confusion over why the extensions button did not appear automatically with their update and how to turn it on in the settings menu versus what they perceived as loss of functionality and lots of frustration over not being able to hide previously hidden extensions.
- Thanks but all I said was basically repeating what the post up there said.