No, we are not syncing visibility preference for extensions. Logging into new profile will show all extensions.

Is that by design, or can I file a feature request to change that?

rdevlin@: Could you triage this bug? Do we need to sync visibility preference?

This is probably a dup of  issue 600630 , which is about syncing the toolbar width.  The reason we don't sync it is because there are plenty of times we wouldn't *want* to: a really easy example is when you have different size screens (users might not want 10 extensions visible on a chromebook, but do on a 30" screen).  Corp extensions or other device-specific extensions also complicate it.

I'm tentatively duping this against that issue, but feel free to re-open if there's anything else.

I don't think it's an unsynced toolbar width that's causing this (although I've noticed that before, too). These are extensions that I've hidden (via "Hide in Chrome menu" in their context menus), not ones that have been pushed over into the overflow menu.

I'm dropping the sync component of this, as I agree that syncing the hidden state would have other unwanted effects: for example, I hide some corp network-related extensions on my workstation but what them to be shown on a Chromebook that's usually used off the corp network. There's no way for us to infer whether the user wants the state to be synced or not in that state (barring a "Hide permanently" or "Hide everywhere" setting), and it would be frustrating if it were always synced.

So I think the real issue here is what I noticed this morning (and have seen once or twice before): extensions that I'd previously hidden _on this machine_ reappeared. Did the location where the "hidden" attribute is stored get moved somewhere else in M50, without any migration code being added?

> These are extensions that I've hidden (via "Hide in Chrome menu" in their context menus), not ones that have been pushed over into the overflow menu.

These do the same thing.

> So I think the real issue here is what I noticed this morning (and have seen once or twice before): extensions that I'd previously hidden _on this machine_ reappeared.

This would be bad.  Can you get this to repro at all?

> These do the same thing.

So they do! Thanks, I wasn't aware of this. That makes it easier to hide them if they come back again. :-P

> This would be bad.  Can you get this to repro at all?

No, the width is preserved when exiting and restarting now (probably the pref, if that's what it is, got rewritten when I re-hid the extensions). If I can find a Chromebook that's still on M49, I might be able to get it to happen again. Is there anything I can capture that'd help track down the cause?

I'm really not sure... I can think of possibilities for why this would happen M49 - M50 (sync mismatches with the extension action redesign, etc), but nothing we can really address (because we wouldn't want to do a stable merge for a one-off thing like this, especially since M50 has been stable for quite awhile).  If you see it again, though, then it means it's not a one-off M49 -> M50 edge case, and should have more attention.

Thanks, I'll reopen this if it pops up again outside of 49->50.

I think that I'm continuing to see this multiple times on the same devices. I noticed it just now on:


Google Chrome	50.0.2661.91 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Platform	7978.66.0 (Official Build) stable-channel peppy

after booting and logging in to my corp account.

I _had_ made changes to the icon ordering and toolbar width on other devices since the last time I logged in to this Chromebook. Does the toolbar get reset to full width after ordering changes are synced?

No, the width should remain constant.  I'll take a look.

I haven't seen any occurrences of an existing profile losing the width in a long time.