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Status: WontFix
Owner:
rdevlin....@chromium.org
Closed: Apr 2016
Cc:
█ pawli...@chromium.org
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OS: Chrome , Mac
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Chrome on Mac showing gray icons for extensions

Project Member Reported by mdw@chromium.org, Mar 13 2016 
Chrome 50.0.2661.26 on Mac OS X 10.11.3

As shown in the attached screenshot, gray icons are showing up for all of my extensions, even those that (to my knowledge) have not explicitly installed an icon there. The grayed out icons are for extensions like:

lmjegmlicamnimmfhcmpkclmigmmcbeh - Application Launcher for Drive
jdlnkeaacmcaeihijlhioaimjebmidgl - Automatic Room Finder
abjoigjokfeibfhiahiijggogladbmfm - Google Corporate Extension Reporter

And in most cases the buttons are non-functional (or at most just take me to the extension's CWS page).
Screen Shot 2016-03-13 at 3.48.19 PM.png
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Comment 1 by mdw@chromium.org, Apr 21 2016

Cc: rdevlin....@chromium.org
Labels: OS-Chrome
Owner: pawli...@chromium.org
This is also happening on ChromeOS and other platforms. I have seen it on external users' machines as well. Is this intentional? It's a pretty bad UI regression, I think.

Comment 2 by rdevlin....@chromium.org, Apr 21 2016

Cc: -rdevlin....@chromium.org pawli...@chromium.org
Owner: rdevlin....@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
This is intentional.  An extension icon is gray if it can't do anything on the page - that is, if it didn't specify a browser action or page action, or if it's page action is disabled for the active URL.

Comment 3 by mdw@chromium.org, Apr 21 2016 

I'm confused. Prior to some recent version (I believe M50), extensions with no icon would not appear at all in the menu bar. For example, the Google Corporate Extension Reporter and Automatic Room Finder extensions have no icons, yet they are now showing as gray icons in the menu bar, unless I go in and right-click on them and select "Hide in Chrome menu".

Are you saying it's intentional that we are now showing gray icons that used to be automatically hidden?

Comment 4 by rdevlin....@chromium.org, Apr 21 2016 

Yes.  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AqzvATdfjuB38TvgQbWd3tNK4DyCcEI7frt6jGzM88Y/edit has some info on it (sorry, internal only).  Feel free to reach out to me with questions.

Comment 5 by mdw@chromium.org, Apr 21 2016 

Makes sense - thanks.
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