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Restore compact context menu

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#3,196 opened on Feb 15, 2025

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Description

Description

Add a flag to restore the old smaller context menu style

Who's implementing?

  • I'm willing to implement this feature myself

The problem

Chrome used to have a compact native-looking context menu before the "UI Refresh 2023" but it was recently changed to be bigger and to have more padding.

There used to be workarounds with --disable-new-menu-style and --disable-features=CustomizeChromeSidePanel but these don't work anymore.

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Possible solutions

Restore the --disable-new-menu-style flag as an ungoogled-chromium feature.

Alternatives

No response

Additional context

ungoogled-chromium already has flags that remove unwanted UI features such as remove-tabsearch-button and disable-sharing-hub.

Contributor guide

Research direction
Look at the current Chromium codebase for the old compact context menu flag and re implement it in ungoogled chromium's own flags system.
Tech stack
cpppython
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
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Half day
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Active
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Clear
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GitC++
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70