Pin extensions and use extension popups
Extension actions belong to the Space. Pin the ones you use often and leave occasional tools in Site Controls.
Open an extension action
- Select Site Controls beside the address field.
- Find the extension's icon in the extension action area.
- Select the icon to run its action or open its popup.
A popup opens below the icon you selected, attached to the Crest window. It closes when you click outside it, press Escape, move or resize the window, or switch to another app.
Open the icon's menu for more choices: Extension Settings…, Pin to Toolbar, Disable Extension, Manage Extension…, View on Chrome Web Store and Remove Extension…. In a private window the menu offers only the choices that don't change the Space's installation.
Pin an action
Select the pin button beside the action in Site Controls, or choose Pin to Toolbar from its menu. Pinned icons appear in the Space's own strip below the address field. They stay there on the Start Page too, before you open any page in the Space.
To remove an icon from the strip, choose Unpin from Toolbar. Unpinning does not disable or uninstall the extension.
Open an extension's settings
If the extension has a settings page, choose Extension Settings… from its menu, or expand it on the Space's Extensions page in Crest Settings and select Extension Settings. The page opens in the Space that owns the installation.
Use side panels
Extensions with a Chrome side panel open it as a card beside the page. Choose Open Side Panel from the action's menu, select the icon if the extension opens its panel that way, or let the extension open it itself. The panel belongs to the page it opened beside. Crest does not keep side panels after you quit.
Pinning is independent per device, and per Space except within a Sub-Space group, whose Spaces share one strip. A Work strip can hold work tools while Personal or another Mac uses a different set.