Customize & Configure

Turn on hidden toolbar tools

The bar ships with a focused set of tools turned on. A few extra utility actions and app shortcuts are built in but hidden by default — switch on the ones you want, any time.

Why some tools are hidden

To keep the bar clean out of the box, a handful of more specialized tools start off. They're not add-ons or upgrades — every one is already in the extension, private, free, forever. You just decide which ones appear on your bar.

Switch one on

Every toolbar action — shown or hidden — lives in the same place:

  1. Open Settings → Toolbar.
  2. Find the action in the left list (utilities) or the right list (app shortcuts).
  3. Flip its toggle on.
  4. Drag it to reorder so your most-used tools come first.

Hiding a tool again is the same toggle, off. Nothing is ever removed — flip it back whenever you like.

Hidden utility actions

These two utilities sit in the left list and ship hidden:

  • Propose a meeting time across timezones — pick a date, time, and source timezone, and the tool builds a ready-to-paste list of that moment in every timezone you care about, with a one-tap Copy button. Add the timezones you schedule across first in Settings → Meeting timezones.
  • HAR analyzer — opens Google's HAR Analyzer in a new tab so you can load and inspect a .har file. It pairs with Record a HAR file for support (on by default): record the file, then analyze it here.

Hidden app shortcuts

The right list holds one-tap shortcuts to the apps you use most. The common ones (Mail, Calendar, Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Files) are on by default; these ship hidden and switch on the same way:

  • Tasks, Notes, Contacts, Forms, Chat, and Meetings — the rest of the productivity suite.
  • Google, YouTube, Maps, Translate, Photos, and Sites — single-app web shortcuts.

Shortcuts open the right destination for your provider — switch between Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 in the same Toolbar settings.

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