Allow users to disable the QR code generator feature

[Tonev]

Description

The feature is most likely useful for a lot of users but at the same time there is another big group of users that doesn't use, or simply doesn't need the feature in their daily browsing. An option to disable the feature will allow users to keep their browser's UI cleaner and will provide a way to disable a feature they don't need at the time.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Navigate to any website (e.g. brave.com).
2. Click inside the address bar.
3. An action icon shows up in the address bar. When clicked a bubble with QR code shows up.

Actual result:

There is no way to disable the feature as of the moment.

Expected result:

Hopefully an option that allows users to enable/disable the feature whenever they like.

Reproduces how often:

Easily

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave | 1.26.77 Chromium: 91.0.4472.164 (Official Build) (64-bit) -- | -- Revision | 541163496c9982c98f61819bab7cf2183ea8180f-refs/branch-heads/4472@{#1569} OS | Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (Build 7601) JavaScript | V8 9.1.269.39 User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.164 Safari/537.36 Command Line | "C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe" --enable-dom-distiller --disable-domain-reliability --no-pings --origin-trial-public-key=bYUKPJoPnCxeNvu72j4EmPuK7tr1PAC7SHh8ld9Mw3E=,fMS4mpO6buLQ/QMd+zJmxzty/VQ6B1EUZqoCU04zoRU= --sync-url=https://sync-v2.brave.com/v2 --lso-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --variations-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --enable-features=WebUIDarkMode,ReducedReferrerGranularity,PasswordImport,PrefetchPrivacyChanges,WinrtGeolocationImplementation,SafetyTip,AutoupgradeMixedContent,LegacyTLSEnforced --disable-features=AutofillServerCommunication,HandwritingRecognitionWebPlatformApi,FledgeInterestGroups,InterestCohortFeaturePolicy,TextFragmentAnchor,EnableProfilePickerOnStartup,FlocIdComputedEventLogging,HandwritingRecognitionWebPlatformApiFinch,AutofillEnableAccountWalletStorage,FledgeInterestGroupAPI,TrustTokens,DirectSockets,IdleDetection,NotificationTriggers,WebOTP,NetworkTimeServiceQuerying,SubresourceWebBundles,SignedExchangePrefetchCacheForNavigations,SignedExchangeSubresourcePrefetch,InterestCohortAPIOriginTrial,FirstPartySets,FederatedLearningOfCohorts,LiveCaption,LangClientHintHeader --flag-switches-begin --enable-features=WebUIDarkMode,ReducedReferrerGranularity,PasswordImport,PrefetchPrivacyChanges,WinrtGeolocationImplementation,SafetyTip,AutoupgradeMixedContent,LegacyTLSEnforced,EphemeralStorage --flag-switches-end Executable Path | C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe Profile Path | C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default Variations | AdRewardsStudy:NextPaymentDayEphemeralStorageStudy:EnabledNativeCosmeticFilteringStudy:EnabledPermissionLifetimeReleaseStudy:Enabled

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release?
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel?
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel?

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

Miscellaneous Information:

• The QR code generator feature was re-introduced in Brave 1.26 over here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15900
• Ahrotahn of the Ungoogled Chromium project provided a way to disable the feature over here: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/issues/1574
• Please, consider adding this into the to-do list over here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/16621

[bsclifton]

cc: @rebron (see notes from @Tonev under Misc Info; maybe we can add to meta issue)

[Tonev]

Ready-to-use patch by Ahrotahn from Ungoogled Chromium.

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/pull/1591

[smaragdus]

Any news about this? This Create QR Code for this page that stays on top of the useful context menu items of extensions drives me crazy!

[sergeevabc]

Aggrrhh, remove it at last!

[PhuriousGeorge]

I just came looking for this as well. I now have to scroll to get to options in my context menu. Linking related request #16711

[qmqz]

any updates on this?

[mirbaagheri]

Why is this feature not added? Where is democracy?