Chrome Extension Manager by cloudHQ

I liked it ... until I saw that they decided to make a non-removable list of their own extensions and added it to the bottom of the extensions list. This is mostly adware and a good reminder for me to avoid anything cloudHQ in the future. That is too much of a price for me to have this extension.

WARNING. The extension asks for access to your emails and it automatically opens a tab to Gmail on install. This is not documented anywhere and it smells like a data-exfiltrating extension. DO NOT ask for permissions that are unrelated to the main purpose of your extension. ALL REVIEWS ARE FAKE. They spam 10 reviews every time I leave this review. I reported this behavior to the Chrome Web Store

While the extension grouping seems to be an awesome idea at a first sight - it totally doesn't work in practice, because extensions associated with a group don't get removed from the main extensions list. With a set of more than 50 extensions (which is a totally average case these days), setting up the groups this way becomes a nightmare process. Another problem is that there's no way to open an extension's option page from the extension manager - considering the fact that the extension is supposed to be an improvement of the default Chrome Extensions dropdown/manager, this problem makes this product kinda useless.

Please change the icon back :( The extension icon used to blend in nicely next to Chrome's official extension button, but now it's on a gear so the puzzle piece is super tiny and hardly recognizable/visible, especially on a dark and/or blue Chrome theme.

One star because the group feature doesn't work.

I have been comparing +10 different extension managers to see which one is best and offers the top design, features, and functionality, since there is no clear top. Everyone already mentioned the useless promos so, moving on. CONS: -When you create an extension group it automatically goes to the top and you can't reorder them. -You have no way of mass-disabling/reenabling all the extensions in a group (which defeats the point of groups for those of us looking to save CPU). -Unlike other organizers, which allow clicking anywhere in the extension label, except for included 'home', 'manage', and 'settings' icons (or at least a drop down menu like they utilize here), in order to quickly toggle extensions on and off, they only have a checkbox.....which would be OKAY if it was larger. They're thinking of design instead of convenience and it's costing them. -The extension icon is completely black. For this extension to be convenient, it's assumed you would have it pinned. If you're a normal person who likes their eyes not being blinded and who uses a dark chrome theme, this extension is completely invisible. -No dark or light mode option for the menu itself. PROS: -Nice and compact design. -When an extension is off, it gets moved to the bottom of the list - HOWEVER, unlike other tab manager extensions, it does not do this until you close the menu, so if you accidentally toggle something, you don't immediately have to scroll down to get it (not that that would happen with how small the checkbox is). -You're able to collapse the group menus, which is great if you create a lot of groups (not that you would with the inability to reorder them, to create auto-profiles for certain URL's, or at least to manual masstoggle OR to reorder said groups). Where this benefits, really, is that you can collapse The CHQ extensions. They're still there and annoying when you scroll down to enable one of YOUR extensions, but I tested it in a new window and they stay collapsed at least for the same session. This is so frustrating because your extensions aesthetic design choices were really above the rest and you had some promise with functions as a few I have downloaded don't even have a search option and one won't let you make groups. That being said, it just seems like you didn't really test it or care about the overall functionality and user experience. We download it because we want /efficiency/! Here are some ways from my comparisons that you could come out on top (genuinely): SUGGESTIONS: (In addn. to the cons.) -Give your extension a settings menu and allow for the simple fixes and changes to be customized so your user feels like they have some control. Put the dark settings in there and you can even give them control over my next suggestions if you want. -I would do one of two things for the toggle: 1. Get rid of the checkbox and make the toggle to disable/enable the entire bar but then add icons with links on the right hand side of the bar (one after another) for like, a house icon, a wrench icon, and a gear icon. The house will take you to that extension's webstore page, the wrench will take you to the extension's included settings (or at least what you get when you click on a pinned extension's icon), and the gear will take you to the extensions manager page of that extension. 2. Make the checkbox bigger and/or at least maybe have it so that if you click on name of the extension, that will also toggle i. (When I open up your menu currently, I'm drawn to the names, not the miniscule box icon so I keep accidentally opening stuff). -Keep your include CHQ stuff as a default setting to advertise BUT give them the option disable them in the settings. Just replace the small permanent blue text at the bottom with a CHQ one line ad and put the existing links in the settings. HERE'S A HINT: We all want an extension that allows us to add profiles that autoenable multiple extensions only when we visit certain URLs. Wink wink, nudge nudge.

As mentioned many times below, this extension lists a ton (50+?) of their own extensions in 3 groups which are not removable (even though they are not installed). It also defaults to having full access to your gmail (check "manage extension" setting) which seems a bit much for an extension manager... This is not a clean and useful extension; it's cluttered with a bunch of junk I'll never install or use, has shady permissions on by default and barely matches the core functionality of the multiple extension managers out there (that do not have all the extra junk). Save yourself the trouble and check out the other extension managers out there.

They force you to have extension groups showing all their chrome extensions that you could install. This ruins the ext. Clutters up the display. Seems like a good extension but I will not use it if I can't remove these groups and extensions that I don't want to see. below is the list of 3 groups and like 50 extensions that are ALWAYS there in the list of my extensions. -cloudHQ Marketing- Gmail Screenshot -cloudHQ Productivity- MailKing - Email Campaigns from Gmail Free Email Tracker -cloudHQ Extensions- Meeting Scheduler for Gmail Export Emails to Google Sheets Save Emails to PDF Export Emails to Google Docs Multi Email Forward for Gmail Gmail Email Templates Gmail Label and Email Sharing Email List Builder Display Email Time Gmail Online Polls & Surveys Sort Gmail Inbox Gmail Copilot Email Signature Generator Gmail eCards Formatted Email Subject Lines Resize Gmail Sidebar Gmail Tables Email Reply Status Gmail Tabs Mailto: Set Default Email to Gmail Chrome Extension Manager Gmail Button Gmail Conversation Thread Reversal Gmail URL Link Preview Get My Receipts Gmail Message Preview Gmail Snippets Gmail Youtube Gmail Auto Follow Up Mobile Text Alerts for Gmail Free HTML Editor for Gmail Auto BCC for Gmail Gmail Notes Save and Backup My Emails Backup emails to Amazon S3 Gmail Web Clipper Gmail Email Links Free Screencast Recording for Gmail Gmail Time Tracker Good Morning Save Emails to Google Drive Free Video Email for Gmail Rename Email Schedule Email Snooze Email Pause Gmail Send Your Email to SMS (text) cloudHQ Phone for Gmail Free Email Tracking Blocker Tiny Sketchbook Share and attach files in Gmail Convert Google Docs to Gmail drafts Sync Salesforce® Contacts to Google Save Emails to Dropbox Save Emails to SharePoint Save Emails to Salesforce Save Emails to OneDrive Save Emails to Box Save Emails to OneDrive Business Save Emails to Egnyte Sync Google Drive with Dropbox, Box, ... Save Emails to OneNote Mother’s Day eCards Email Sender Icons Email Zoom Text Reader Gmail Auto Label Google Docs Templates Google Sheets Templates Google Sheets Templates Google Slides Theme Templates Google Forms Templates Happy Valentine's Day eCards Email Simple View ChatGPT for Gmail

I won't repeat what was said in the recent comments. Extension seems to work. It's supported unlike most others. However, it doesn't work as expected. Toggling [other] extensions redirects you to the extension details instead of simply just enabling it. No fuss. This method, in contrast is present when you disable an extension. Obviously, this is counter intuitive and seems to lack planning. Another extension like Extensity does this. So, it's obviously not a Chrome limitation. What I also find odd is that we can't create a keyboard shortcut for this extension in Chrome like we can do for most other extensions. It would be helpfully to add this feature. I also know that while adding groups is incredibly handy, it can cause issues. I suggest keeping things simple as much as possible otherwise the already heavy extension may eventually become corrupt and cause your Chromium browser to be buggy as I have seen with similar extensions. This is not the best Extension manager, but not the worst either. However, it can be with some refinements.

Look, I get that you're trying to make a buck, but I don't appreciate that by default and without remedy I'm given three groups of CloudHQ extensions I'm completely uninterested in. By "without remedy", I mean that there's no obvious way to remove those groups or hide them (no, collapsing isn't enough). I'd have been quite willing to check some of it out, if it weren't persistently shoved in my face. No thanks. It's a shame, too, because the extension looks like it might have been useful, but it's already wasted too much of my time and that's a good indication it would have continued to do so. I'm likely to eschew the rest as well. <shrug>

Thanks for making this app. It has some great promise. However, why does it require permission access to inbox.google.com, mail.google.com, and other web sites? Uninstalling until they no longer require this permission. I like the idea of being able to Group my extensions. However, I don't see an intuitive way to enable or disable a whole Group at once. For those of you not wanting to risk your data, other extensions such as "Custom Chrome - Extension Manager" do not require this type of access.

unfortunately, it does not forward the right mouse click to the managed extensions, therefore it is not possible to replace to default big mess of all installed Chrome Extensions Icons. Additionally, Extensions cannot be moved between groups by Drag & Drop.