Any way to remove extension icon from bar + keep extension?

Pathduck

This is a thing which is bugging me about the Chromium extension handling - all extensions insist on adding their icon on the extension bar, whether or not they are actually needed there.

In FF I could remove individual icons from the bar but still keep the extension installed.

Example: The Wayback Machine (archive.org) has a small extension to send you to the archived page in case of 404s and so on. But the icon itself I have no use for.

I want to keep the extension bar with only the extension I use regularly and have a need to set options for quickly there. I always keep it hidden as well, since it takes up way to much space already.

I was hoping there was a way to customize this menu like the other icons (back,forward,home etc).

iAN CooG

You can hide extensions by right click menu on each extension icon.
At that point the extension toggle button can be used to see temporarily all the extensions buttons.

Pesala

@Pathduck Go to Settings, Address Bar, and disable the Extensions Toggle. Then you can hide any buttons from the right-click menu.

Pathduck

Thanks guys. However, not exactly what I want - you see, I want to always have the toggle on, and even when it's open, only show the extensions I want. I don't have that many extensions but I'd still like to completely hide the ones I don't need on the bar.

I guess the toggle button is the same as the Chrome Menu button. However, I actually think the Chrome way of doing this is a lot more elegant:
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This is "future proof" in that even if you have a lot of extensions, it will display in a wrapped container and not fill up your entire address bar.

I've tried to do it with css but the button+icons are one common element, so I need to move the button too, and that's kind of ugly [1]. If the buttons were placed in their own container I could move it to below the address bar and set a size.

[1] https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/33641/extensions-button-toggle-still-need-improvement

Hadden89

@Pathduck No way (yet) to totally hide them.
There's a css workaround which works:
.extensions-wrapper button#himccccaelhgphommckogopgpddngimf {display: none;}
Replace him... with the extension ID you want to hide.

Pathduck

@Hadden89 Thanks for that. I guess for now that's the only way to do it. At least I don't have that many extensions now that it's a big problem. But I will do i for the Wayback Machine and Edit This Cookie plugins. Thanks!