Possible adjustment to extensions page behavior?

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Matt Frisbie

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Oct 31, 2025, 10:56:17 AM (6 days ago) Oct 31
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In the chrome://extensions page, when the cursor hovers over the extension toggle, this undismissable tooltip message (see screenshot below) shows up and covers all the rest of the buttons for about 3 seconds, making them unclickable. 

Screenshot 2025-10-31 at 9.48.32 AM.png

As a developer who clicks the covered buttons frequently, this behavior is incredibly annoying. Even a brief mouseover of the toggle button causes the tooltip to show up.

Pushing the tooltip text above the buttons, or make the tooltip click-to-dismiss, or listen for an escape to dismiss, would be a huge improvement.

Thanks!

DreamBuilder Team

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Nov 1, 2025, 3:30:35 AM (5 days ago) Nov 1
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+1 Confirm the same annoying behaviour!

Dan Ridd

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Nov 1, 2025, 3:38:08 AM (5 days ago) Nov 1
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Same for us, it's very annoying!!!


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woxxom

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Nov 1, 2025, 5:15:48 AM (5 days ago) Nov 1
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It's intentional according to https://crbug.com/40279132. Yet another good intention of those that pave the road to hell. I'm pretty biased after seeing ManurefestV3 disastrous handling of user feedback, but hopefully these ideas can be considered:
  1. reposition/resize the tooltip to the right or to the top of the switch to match standard behavior of UI tooltips and avoid obscuring the action buttons at the bottom like Details or Reload - our goal of opening the extensions page was to click those buttons;
  2. only show the tooltip when "Developer mode" switch is disabled;
  3. show the text permanently in the card

woxxom

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Nov 1, 2025, 5:22:20 AM (5 days ago) Nov 1
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4. make the tooltip disappear when the toggle switch is not hovered - although not a priority for Chromium but this will also match the decades of proper UI/UX design in apps
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