VPN should have a right click to hide
See original GitHub issueTest plan
On macOS and Windows only (VPN not available on Linux)
- Set brave://flags/#brave-vpn to ENABLED
- Set brave://flags/#skus-sdk to ENABLED
- Restart the browser
- Verify the VPN button shows next to Hamburger menu
- Right click the VPN button
- You should see the menu:

- Pick the “Hide VPN button in toolbar” option
- VPN button should disappear
Description
If VPN is enabled, some users may not want to see it.
It would be great if they can right click (or ctrl+click) the VPN icon:

And then we can have a context menu show Hide VPN button. This would do the same thing as when you go into settings and using the toggle under appearance:

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- Created 2 years ago
- Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)
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Quick update - we won’t be able to test this on Beta until https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/12175 is merged (see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/21598)
Changing to
QA/Noper discussion in today’s desktop planning meeting, testing will be covered with https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15804.