How to Enable the New Extension Menu in Chrome Browser

The Chrome browser manages to maintain its strong position in the browser segment because of the variety of features that it has to offer. Besides the tons of extensions for various groups of users that he has in store, he also has some hidden indicators. These flags are used to enable some experimental features in Chrome. In this guide, we will use one of these flags to activate the new extension menu in Chrome. Let's see how to enable this feature. However, if you want to use these Chrome extensions on your Android device, check out our guide for the same.

Likewise, this makes the entire Omni box (address bar) too cluttered. But there is a hidden chrome flag that allows you to completely change the appearance of the extension menu. In addition, the flag works pretty well stable version of Chrome also. Let's see how to enable this new extension menu in Chrome.

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Steps to enable the new extension menu

1. 1. To activate the new extension menu, open the Chrome browser on your desktop and type chrome: // flags in the address bar.
   2. Search now for Toolbar menu Extensions flag. You can take help of the present search bar at the top.
   3. Initially, it will be set to Default. To change its status, simply click on the Default keyword and select enabled in the drop-down menu.
   4. In this case, Chrome will warn you to restart the browser. Save any pending work and click on the Now restart button.
   5. Finally, when Chrome restarts, you will see a new extension icon in Chrome. This will be right next to the address bar. All of your extensions are now accessible from this newly created extension icon.

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Management of installed extensions

1. Once you have clicked on the new extension menu in Chrome, a drop-down list appears. It would contain a list of all installed extensions. It is divided into two sections:
   • Access to the data of this site: This lists all the installed extensions that have access to the data on the website that you are currently using.
   • Can not access the data of this site: All extensions installed on your Chrome browser but not accessing any data from the webpage you are currently on are displayed here.
2. In addition, each extension in the newly created extension menu in Chrome contains more options. This includes:
   • The name of the extension: This option will take you to the extension page on the Chrome online store.
   • This can read and modify the data of the site: It specifies the behavior of an extension on various Web pages. It also offers the following options.
     • When you click on the extension: This feature only allows an extension to work when you click on it. Likewise, every time you open a new tab, you will have to click on the extension to activate it.
     • Sure : This feature allows the extension to run (from the extension menu on Chrome) only on the website that you are currently browsing.
     • On all sites: This will allow the feature to run on all the sites you visit.
3. Apart from all this, you have the opportunity to remove an extension, not only from the menu, but also from Chrome. In addition, you could even pin any extension at the top of the menu.
4. To gain further access to the extension menu, click Manage the extension. This page displays the description, version, size, permissions and various other information related to it.

With that, we conclude the guide on how to activate the new extension menu in the Chrome browser. What do you think of this Chrome feature? Share your opinions in the comments section below.

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