Cannot hide extensions from toolbar

Question

I just went to use Edge and the extension icon had appeared in my toolbar, I right clicked it and selected to hide it but then suddenly all my extension icons appeared on my toolbar taking up space. I now cannot hide any extensions that don't need any interaction from me (such as antivirus etc.) and they are talking up a lot of space.

I tried uninstalling it, but all I could do was Repair it, but nothing worked. I cleared my cache etc and nothing worked. All bar one extension come from the Chrome Web Store.

Answer 1

Try this: Settings>Appearance>Show extensions button... Now you can hide those extensions

Answer 2

I seem to have managed to fix it myself by doing the following:

• Sign out of your Edge profile (in my case, my Hotmail account)
• Add that profile back to Edge but do not set it to sync
• After you have signed in, the extension icon appears in the tool bar
• Now, go into the profile settings and turn on sync
• As your synced extensions appear, you should then see them not greyed out in the extension icon menu as below: ![](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/bde51a90-6e60-4ada-a6d3-621efb8dea6b?platform=QnA

Answer 3

Found out the "proper" way:

Head to edge://settings/appearance

Turn on the "Show extensions button" and the option is no longer greyed out for individual extensions

Answer 4

Thanks for your help!

Answer 5

There's now (don't know if it was before) a setting to reshow the extensions button. Enabling it allows for hiding again.