1386917 - Placing extensions "within reach but out of your toolbar" does not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1373490

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Greg]

Attachment: Firefox-v57.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.78 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

This bug exists in v54 and v57 of Firefox.

Install the uMatrix (or uBlock Origin) extension by Raymond Hill. Here I will use uMatrix. Customize Firefox and drag the uMatrix icon onto the pad that says, "Drag and drop items here to keep them within reach but out of your toolbar..."

I don't want the uMatrix extension-icon to perpetually display on Firefox's address-bar. But on some occasions I need to access it, so I put uMatrix "within reach but out of the toolbar." 



Actual results:

Click the ">>" arrows (on the firefox address-bar) to access your "out of reach" uMatrix icon. Click the uMatrix icon. Notice how the resulting "opened uMatrix" is not fully visible nor fully accessible. It is unusable. see attached screenshot "Firefox-v57."


Expected results:

Google Chrome allows users to select an extension's icon and if that icon is visible on the toolbar, then select "Hide in Chrome Menu" or if it is not visible, select "Show in toolbar."

In Google Chrome, even if the extension's icon is hidden in the Chrome Menu, users can still click the "hamburger button" and click on the extension's icon and get full access to the icon. I would like to be able to do this in Firefox. But Firefox's "within reach but out of the toolbar" function does not work. I expected it to work like Chrome's implementation.

Comment 1

[Greg]

Attachment: Firefox-v54.png