How to make your Chrome extension icons visible again

September 09, 2013

What is it with software developers making user-interface (UI) changes that serve no purpose other than to confuse users? iTunes is perhaps the worst offender in this department--I think the current version (11) is perhaps the most unusable piece of software to date--but Google is giving it a run for the money with Chrome. First came an inexplicable removal of the browser's minimize, maximize, and close buttons, then unwanted changes to the spacing in Chrome's bookmark lists. Now, seemingly out of the blue, I've lost all my frequently used extension icons, which typically appear to the right of the address bar. Where I used to see icons for things like Evernote, Print Friendly, and OneTab, now there's just a little double-arrow I have to click in order to see a drop-down list of those extensions. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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