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Add #extensions-toolbar-menu flag from older chromium versions

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#1,336 opened on Jan 16, 2021

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Description

So chromium used to allow you to disable the extensions icon in the toolbar.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/jw322g/chrome_extension_icon_permanent_in_v87/

However this ability was recently removed. However, it works via the cli as so:

/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --disable-features=ExtensionsToolbarMenu

I'd like to see it reintroduced in ungoogled as I prefer having a minimal toolbar.

The commit that removed it in chromium https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/09df13c25e1b30200b3d08531cc741be1df1ea49

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Investigate the commit that removed the ExtensionsToolbarMenu flag in Chromium and determine how to re add it as a patch for ungoogled chromium. Look at existing patches for similar flags and the build system.
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