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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 597657
Owner: ----
Closed: May 2016
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NextAction: ----
OS: Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Bring back address bar extension icons

Reported by felix.bu...@gmail.com, Apr 19 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2712.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Install an extension that displays in the address bar and/or is only active on certain websites.

Examples: SPDY/HTTP2 indicator, Traktflix (only active on netflix.com)

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
Chrome's handling of extension icons was changed in recent versions.

Instead of being able to show icons only on specific websites as part of the address bar, it now display all icons cluttered on the toolbar right to the address bar.

This is a horrible UX for users like web developer that depend on lot's of context sensitive extensions. I gathered from a blog post that the new behavior is supposed to protect dummy windows users from evil chrome extensions, but is severely hurts the user experience for power users.

I know that it's possible to hide those icons, but it doesn't help for cases where the icon should only show on certain websites.

At least give power users a choice to re-enable address bar extension icons through a setting/flag.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 52.0.2712.0  Channel: canary
OS Version: OS X 10.11.4
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0

A lot of users are unhappy about this change, just look at the comments of the following reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/48kxix/why_are_disabled_extension_icons_showing_up_in/
 

Comment 1 by meh...@chromium.org, Apr 19 2016

Components: -UI Platform>Extensions
Cc: rnimmagadda@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
@felix.buenemann: Could you please provide us the extension file to repro this issue from our side.

Also, provide us the screen-recording for better understanding of this issue.

Thank you.

Comment 3 by rob@robwu.nl, May 15 2016

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Mergedinto: 597657
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)
Please add your use case to issue 597657 if you don't see it among the other cases. Let's hope that the UX of page actions improves.

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