Some of my Chrome extensions have greyed out. These extensions are generally still functional. The only thing that doesn't seem to work is the counter for the Inbox Checker extension.
What does it mean if an extension is greyed out in the extension toolbar? And what can I do to fix it?
Best Answer
It's because Google changed something, i can testify on my own custom extension i wrote, it used to have a colorful icon and suddenly after Chrome updated itself the icon became gray (however the extension functioned properly).
For the developers who troubleshoot this annoying bug, (and google through it to this question), i answered to a similar question in Stack Overflow.
I had to find out more so iv'e reverse engineered the famous AD Block extension (that has a non-gray icon).
I tried to change things in the extension's manifast.json file, Eventually i found out that the following setting keeps the icon colorfull:
source - https://stackoverflow.com/a/38604189/3191896