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To enable Extensions menu button still works in Chrome and the same preference/flag can be used to get rid of the Extensions button.If you also want to remove the new Extensions menu button from Google Chrome toolbar, following steps will help you:UPDATE: In newer versions of Google Chrome (version 87 and later), Chrome team has removed the previous working flag “Extensions Toolbar Menu” from Chrome://flags page. If you are using a new version of Google Chrome, following new method will help you in removing “Extensions” menu button from Google Chrome toolbar:[New Working Method] Remove “Extensions” Menu Button from Google Chrome Toolbar1. Open Google Chrome web browser and type chrome://flags/ in addressbar and press Enter. It’ll open the advanced configuration page.2. Now type toolbar menu in the “Search flags” box.It’ll directly go to following option:Extensions Toolbar MenuEnable a separate toolbar button and menu for extensions – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS#extensions-toolbar-menu3. To disable/remove Extensions toolbar button, select Disabled from the drop-down box.4. Google Chrome will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Relaunch now” button to restart Google Chrome.That’s it. You have successfully removed the new “Extensions” menu button from Google Chrome toolbar. Google Chrome will no longer show Extensions button in its toolbar.PS: If you want to re-enable or add the Extensions toolbar button in future, select “Default” option from the drop-down box and restart the browser.Also Check:[Tip] Remove Media Controls Button from Google Chrome Toolbar[Tip] Always Show Full URLs (Including HTTPS and WWW) in Google Chrome Address barYou are here: Home » Google Chrome » [Tip] Remove “Extensions” Menu Button from Google Chrome Toolbar

Opened window choose Programs and Features.Windows 7 users:Click Start (Windows Logo at the bottom left corner of your desktop), choose Control Panel. Locate Programs and click Uninstall a program.macOS (OSX) users:Click Finder, in the opened screen select Applications. Drag the app from the Applications folder to the Trash (located in your Dock), then right click the Trash icon and select Empty Trash.In the uninstall programs window: look for any recently installed suspicious applications, select these entries and click "Uninstall" or "Remove".After uninstalling the potentially unwanted applications (which cause browser redirects to the browser-surf.xyz website), scan your computer for any remaining unwanted components. To scan your computer, use recommended malware removal software.Browser-Surf browser hijacker removal from Internet browsers:Video showing how to remove Browser-Surf browser hijacker using Combo Cleaner:Chrome FirefoxSafariEdge Remove malicious extensions from Google Chrome:Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select "Extensions" and click "Manage Extensions". Locate "Browser-Surf" and other recently-installed suspicious extensions, select these entries and click "Remove".Change your homepage:Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select "Settings". In the "On startup" section, disable "Browser-Surf", look for a browser hijacker URL (hxxp://www.browser-surf.xyz) below the "Open a specific or set of pages" option. If present click on the three vertical dots icon and select "Remove".Change your default search engine:To change your default search engine in Google Chrome: Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select "Settings", in the "Search engine" section, click "Manage search engines...", in the opened list look for "browser-surf.xyz", when located click the three vertical dots near this URL and select "Delete".If you continue to have problems with browser redirects and unwanted advertisements - Reset Google Chrome.Optional method:If you continue to have problems with removal of the browser-surf.xyz redirect, reset your Google Chrome browser settings. Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome) and select Settings. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen. Click the Advanced… link.After scrolling to the bottom of the screen, click the Reset (Restore settings to their original defaults) button.In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Google Chrome settings to default by clicking the Reset button.Chrome FirefoxSafariEdge Remove malicious extensions from Mozilla Firefox:Click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window), select "Add-ons and themes". Click "Extensions", in the opened window locate "Browser-Surf", as well as all recently-installed suspicious extensions, click on the three dots and then click "Remove".Change your homepage:To reset your homepage, click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window), then select "Settings", in the opened window disable "Browser-Surf", remove hxxp://browser-surf.xyz and enter your preferred

File extension crx is associated with Google Chrome, a web browser developed by Google which uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework.The crx file contains extensions and plug-ins for Google Chrome Internet browser (skins, function extensions). The crx file format is just a variation of ZIP archive that's used by Google Chrome.An app's crx file can be hosted on your own server or, more typically, by the Chrome Web Store.Files with crx extension can be typically encountered as plugins/add-ons called extensions for Google Chrome based web browsers.How to open:The *.crx file format is associated and used by the Google Chrome Internet browser. File contains extensions for the Google Chrome.The *.crx files are basically ZIP archives with renamed file extension to crx. You can rename crx file extension back to ZIP and open the ZIP archive file in any compression utility, such as WinZip, WinRAR or PeaZip.How to convert:There is no way how to convert *.crx files to other formats.

If you upgraded to new version of Google Chrome web browser, you might have immediately noticed the new “Extensions” menu button added to the main toolbar. A new Jigsaw puzzle piece icon is displayed in the latest version of Google Chrome browser.This new Extensions toolbar button shows list of all installed extensions in Google Chrome. You can pin/unpin extensions to Chrome toolbar, directly uninstall/remove extensions from Chrome and access extensions options. You can also launch the main Extensions page (chrome://extensions/) by clicking on “Manage Extensions” option directly from this new Extensions menu.The previous “Hide in Chrome Menu” option to move an extension’s toolbar button from main toolbar to Chrome Menu has been replaced with new Pin/Unpin feature.The new Extensions menu also shows which type of access (full access or no access) the installed extensions have on the current web page. If an installed extension has full access on the web page, the Extensions menu will list the extension under “Full access” section and will show “These extensions can see and change information on this site” message. Similarly, if an installed extension has no access on the web page, the Extensions menu will list the extension under “No access needed” section and will show “These extensions don’t need to see and change information on this site” message.Following screenshot shows new Extensions menu button in Google Chrome toolbar:If you remember this Extensions menu button was implemented in Google Chrome 75.0 version but at that time the feature was under development and testing and was not enabled by default. We told you about this feature in our exclusive Google Chrome Canary Updates topic, check out UPDATE 111. We also shared a detailed tutorial about how to manually activate and enable Extensions menu button in Google Chrome toolbar when the button was not enabled by default. You can read about the tutorial at following link:[Tip] Enable “Extensions” Menu Button in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge ToolbarNow in newer versions of Google Chrome, the Extensions menu button is activated and enabled by default.There might be many Chrome users who may not like the new extra button on their browser toolbar. They may want to delete or remove the Extensions button from Chrome toolbar. Google Chrome team has not provided any direct way to disable or remove Extensions toolbar button. If you right-click on Extensions button, nothing happens. No context menu is shown.Fortunately, the previous preference/flag

Google Chrome is a popular browser that was released back in 2008 for Windows and later released for almost all operating systems. Google Chrome over its lifetime, launched more new features along which the browser is known for taking up RAM and CPU resources. If you’re reading this article on Google Chrome there is a possibility that the page might get stuck. But there are several ways to fix the Google Chrome page unresponsive error.When Google Chrome shows an error that “The following page(s) have become unresponsive,” you have two choices; “Kill pages” or “Wait.” You can avoid this particular error message by:1: Cleaning Temporary Internet Files and CacheYou just have to clean your cache, history, cookies, and other temporary files. Another obvious option is to close and restart Google Chrome. You can clean your Google Chrome temporary files by following these steps:1: Click Menu (3 dots) in the top right corner and select Settings, and scroll to Advanced. Look for Clear browsing data under “Privacy and security.”2: Click on Clear Data.3: Restart Google Chrome.2: Repairing Browser ExtensionsOpen File Explorer and navigate to C:UsersUserNameAppDataLocalGoogleChromeUserDataDefault and look for the Extensions folder. Right-click on Extensions and rename to the folder to Extensions.Old.Now, check if Google Chrome is working again. If not, the extensions folder has been recreated so you can delete the Extensions.old folder or remove the Extensions folder and rename Extensions.old back to Extensions.Your extensions will not function correctly until you repair them, so if the extensions were your problem, you have to “repair” them one at a time until the black screen reappears if at all, to determine which extension was causing the problem.3: Resetting Google ChromeGo to Settings, Advanced, scroll down to Reset and clean up and click on Restore settings to their original default. A warning will appear, click on RESET SETTINGS.4: Reinstalling Google ChromeWe might need to uninstall Google Chrome and reinstall it as the last option.Go to Start, Settings, Control Panel, Apps & Features. Click on Google Chrome and select Uninstall. Next, go to and download Google Chrome to reinstall.The solution for different crashes and errors