I have the same problem they need to fix this! Here is my IR report make sure to star it so it gets more attention I starred your post. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=644110

Hope they will fix it because this is really bad change. 

And I forgot to mention the change in the "Find bar" that is also very bad. Now there is no green/red color indicator and the box is thicker without a reason and the text field is smaller.It's like someone thought that it is not OK that the chrome browser is so good and so friendly, so there is an need for a change. 

I also find the new effect of a expanding grey circle, when clicking on extension icon- very annoying. 

I strongly doubt they'll "fix" it because whoever did the redesign think it's "KEWL". Especially those wacky animations on click that invariably appeal to people who start learning javascript. Seeing it in Chromium, software supposedly developed by excellent/awesome programmers, feels surreal.

Many people including me have reported here and on other Google Chrome-related forums that extension icons became less readable and less legible several months ago. Each time I see a robotic response "needs triage" or "can you show an example" implying they don't see it as an obvious problem that ruins the UI. The material redesign has issues that need to be resolved without haste. A lot of much more useful changes are stalled for years in Chromium.

This redesign has reduced quality of icons in all extensions that don't provide a hand-made pixel-aligned 16x16 and 32x32 icons for the toolbar (browserAction/pageAction). The majority of extensions won't be updated for many years.

So sad to hear that. Hope they will change their mind. The changes they made don't make any sense. 

Well, you can disable "Material Design in the browser's top chrome" on chrome://flags page, but these flags exist only for a relatively short term just for convenience of Chromium developers during the feature testing stage, and will be removed soon.

Yeah, they've wontfix'd a similar bug report already:  https://crbug.com/639607 

Thanks for the tip! if they will remove this flag I guess I will use the latest chromium version that has it. 

Issue similar to the  bug 639607 .Hence merging this into 639607.
Please feel free to undupe if not the case.

Thanks,