How to cope with a large number of extensions in Google Chrome

In the Chrome Web Store you can find a store expansion for virtually any application. That is what many people are becoming the main argument for choosing a browser. However, if too carried away in this business, then very soon your browser will acquire such number of additional tools that will slow and clumsy. In this article you will learn how to solve this problem.

First of all, let's look to the toolbar of your browser. If you have a fair amount of extensions, then it has been a long line of icons. Are they all you need? Perhaps it makes sense to hide some of them, and reduce the number of icons residing in front of the eyes, to a minimum?

Make it very simple. First, tap the icons of those extensions that do not involve any interaction and just take up space on the toolbar. Now make each of them a right-click and select the context menu "Hide" button.

After that, put things in order in the remaining items. It is necessary to arrange them in order of importance and frequency of use in a way that left you were the most necessary icons. This can be done by simply dragging icons mouse from place to place.

Coped? Fine! Now move your mouse over the invisible line between the separator and the beginning of the search toolbar (it becomes at the same time a double-headed arrow) and drag all your icons to the right. This way you can keep within sight of only the most popular extensions, but is rarely used to hide in the drop-down menu for the arrow.

There is another way to organize icons extensions, but it will require you to visit the page with the experimental settings. You will find the appropriate option at chrome: // flags / # enable-extension-action-redesign. After its activation you will be able to hide extensions icons in the main menu of the browser. Try maybe this method you will find the most convenient.

Well, now that we have put an external marafet, you can move on to more profound changes. They will be in a comfortable regulation of the number of active extension in accordance with your tasks and the nature of the work.

The so-called Extension Manager - is a special extension (pardon the tautology), which are able to fly to enable or disable the desired you in this time of expansion (again, sorry).

Extensions Manager allows you to easily manage all the extensions of the pop-up window that appears when you click on the icon. Here in a single click can deactivate unneeded currently items to delete them, go to the settings and so on. There is a search and the ability to group extensions in multiple lists.

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Extensions Manager (aka Switcher)

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If you have multiple extensions that you need them only on certain sites, be sure to try Extension Automation. In his settings, you can set the rules for the inclusion of extensions for individual sites, which will be executed automatically. Thus the expansion necessary to you, for example, for comfortable viewing of video, will be automatically activated only when visit YouTube, and all the rest of the time will sleep peacefully and not to eat memory, and so that all the time is not enough.

Expansion Context It is also designed to quickly enable or disable the extensions, but does not do it alone, and once in droves. You can create multiple sets designed for different types of activities that you usually do on the web, and switch in one click between them. For example, for the work you are using a set of extensions for entertainment - the other, and for shopping - the third.

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Context

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And what a way to manage the Chrome browser extensions you use?