You're right, geraldatark. Fighting that clutter is a constant struggle. (It's a Chrome browser problem too) (Even on Firefox, I'm seeing a buildup of toolbar extension icons). Now I have in Opera 21, 16 active extensions right now, and am only needing to show 7 on the bar. (I carefully chose not to show what I don't need to). So the look is not too cluttered, but it's a struggle to keep the active and "showing" list small. I also have 13 deactivated extensions. I may use them occasionally in the future. In stead of hiding them, I deactivated them to save computer resources. I have a nice extension I have on the extension bar called, One-Click Extension Manager (from the Chrome store). If I click on it, I get an immediate vertical display of all my extensions. I can deactivate all of them in one click if I chose (to test overall speed without any extensions against what I have), or I can deactivate them on an ad hoc basis. Some that I deactivatate I do use, but it's one click to activate and use them, so why keep them active the rest of the time. I use Click@Clean (the Chrome extension) that way. If I want to clean browser history, manage cookies, etc, do a malware check in the browser, I activate it. And when I'm done, I just deactivate it. Some of the deactivated ones, I may simply decide to delete if I don't use them for a long enough time.
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