hide selected devices in the browser

[siliconarc]

would come in handy for hiding the devices we rarely use.
there are 31 audio effect devices alone! i use maybe 10 of them regularly.
a simple right-click > hide would be just grand.

[EX]

Yeah... or just some way to have some sort of go-to favourites menu... sure is a workflow pain having to wade through the stuff you don't use to get to the few things you do every time...

[outershpongolia]

If your on OS X you can try making aliases for the various things you want quick at hand, and put them into a folder

[Citizen]

Has this functionality been added yet?

Surely this is possible! Soooooooo many native presets I will never use.

Please make browsing more efficient by enabling this feature.

[John Fihlman]

Currently you can kind of simulate this feature by using the new "Add Label" feature that was added in Live 12.0 and which now works even better with Live 12.2's ability to change label icons. You can also use the colored "Collections" for a simpler solutions, that should work with Live 10 and newer.
The collections way is easier, but the labels feature actually simulates hiding audio effects, and might be better in practice once you've got it set up. I wrote a full guide for both options here, and tried to make the steps as intuitive and clear as I could... Feel free to share this guide to anyone who might need it.

Collections:
This is fairly easy to do, and works with Live 10 or newer.

1. First make sure the Collections are visible by hovering over the Collections header on the upper left corner of the Browser, and clicking the Edit button that should show up next to the header.
2. Now you can choose one of these color coded Collections. You will be using your Collection of choice as a page where only your favorite and most used effects will be. If your Collection of choice wasn't already visible then you can click on the check box on the right and click on Done.
3. You can rename your chosen Collection by right clicking on it and then clicking Rename. I recommend naming it something like "Favorite Effects", or if you're using the red Collection, you can keep the original "Favorites" name that it comes with.
4. Next, go to the Audio Effects label on the left side of the browser.
5. Right click on one of your most used effects, and there should be a drop-down menu with the different Collections. Click on the collection that you want to add this effect to. You can also make this step easier by just pressing one of the number keys on your keyboard, with 1 being for red, 2 being for orange, 3 for yellow and so on.
6. The effect should now have a little colored square next to it's name. You can repeate the last step on all of your most used effects. I recommend using the arrow keys to scroll through the audio effects, and using the number key for your Collection to make this easier, as you won't have to manually click on every effect with your mouse.
7. Now go to the Collection that you just put the effects into from the upper left side of the browser, and all the effects should show up there.

Custom Label:
Now this one I recommend strongly! It's a bit tougher to setup right, but once it's done, it will work a lot like hiding audio effects. Reqires Live 12.0 or newer to work, though this guide was made with Live 12.2.

1. Open the Tag Editor, you can find this by looking at the browser on the left of your screen and by clicking on the small downwards pointing arrow/triangle on the upper rightmost corner of the Browser, not the whole Ableton Live window, just the Browser. A drop-down menu should appear, click on Tag Editor, and it should appear next to the Browser.
2. Click on Add Group, which you can find at the bottom of the Tag Editor's list, underneath all of the pre-existing Groups. Type the name "Custom Labels" and hit enter on your keyboard. The new Tag Group called Custom Labels should show up in the Tag Editor.
3. If you want, you can move this Custom Labels group within the Tag Editor's list by clicking and dragging on it. You could drag it to the top or bottom of the list to make it easier to find, although this is up to you.
4. Next, click Add Tag... below the the Custom Labels group. Type the name for this new Tag, for example "Favorite Effects" and hit enter on your keyboard. Now there should be a Tag under Custom Lables, that's named "Favorite Effects", or whatever you decided to name it.
5. Go to the Audio Effects label on the left side of the browser.
6. Select all of your most used effects by clicking on them one at a time, while holding down Ctrl on Windows, or Command on Mac. Leave out any effects that you don't want to see listed here. The effects that you don't select will essentially be "hidden" once you are done.
7. While your chosen effects are still selected, look at the Tag Editor once again, and click on the checkbox next your "Favorite Effects" Tag that you created earlier. This should tag these audio effects as "Favorite Effects".
8. Now if you want to be able to add plugins or other items to be alongside your most used Audio Effects in the future, you can go to the label called "All" on the left side of the browser, but if you don't need this functionality, you can stay on the "Audio Effects" label.
9. Click on the search bar at the top of the Browser, and type the name of the Tag that you created earlier with a hashtag before it, like this: "#Favorite Effects". Hit enter, and you should see a box in the search bar with the name of the Tag. The search results should only include all of the Audio Effects that you tagged earlier.
10. Next, you'll have to find a button with three lines on the left and a plus symbol on the right, kind of like this: ☰+
    It should be inside a yellow bar under the search bar, next to a button that says "Clear". Click on the ☰+ button to add this search as a new Label.
11. The label should show up on the left side of the browser, and you should be able to rename it immediately by just typing the name you want and hitting enter on your keyboard. I will rename it to "Favorite Effects" and call it that in the rest of this Guide
    
    • You could call it done at this point, and you should have a new page with just your favorite effects, easily accessible from the left side of the Browser, which by the way is called the "Sidebar". But if you really want to simulate hiding the unwanted effects from the original Audio Effects label, keep folloing this guide.
12. Right click on the "Favorite Effects" label, and in the drop-down menu click the icon that looks like a waveform, which should be in the middle of the top row of all the icons. This should look the same as the icon next to the original Audio Effects label.
13. Drag the "Favorite Effects" label to be right above the original Audio Effects label.
14. Click on the Edit button that should show up when you hover over the "Library" header on the sidebar.
15. Uncheck the checkbox next to the original Audio Effects label, and click done where the Edit button was earlier. This should hide the original Audio Effects label.
16. Now you can optionally rename the "Favorite Effects" to "Audio Effects", to make it look exactly like the original label. You can do this by right clicking on the "Favorite Effects" label and clicking Rename from the drop-down menu.

And there you go! You can add more effects by searching for them and adding the "Favorite Effects" tag, or by temporarily making the original Audio Effects label visible, and adding the tag to effects from there. If you did the search through the "All" label at step 8, you can even add the "Favorite Effects" tag to your commonly used plugins, and they should also show up in the custom "Audio Effects" label. This can be useful, for example if you usually use a ceratin reverb plugin instead of Ableton's stock reverb. The plugins will show up alongside the stock audio effects.

Honestly this guide can be a bit confusing, because of the amount of steps, but if you need help with something, I can probably help you figure it out, as for me using the Collections or custom Labels is fairly intuitive thanks to some experience using them. Also feel free to make changes, because this is a fully custom process, and you can change a lot of things to make it work best for you. This kind of customization is what makes the Ableton Live workflow so good...