Last week, information was spread that Google planned to implement proper theme support within their Chrome browser. Just recently, people have discovered, in the developer builds of the browser, that the company has built in the theme support already. It was unclear how they'd plan to display said themes, though many suspected the obvious choice of an online gallery; now, however, TechCrunch is reporting that this has been all but confirmed, with several themes already having been discovered.TechCrunch states that the themes will be available at this link, which has obviously yet to go online, but you can already preview it if you have the very latest build of the Chrome browser. If you open a new window or tab, and click the 'X' button to remove previously visited sites, and eventually the theme page will show up (though again, you're unable to actually visit it properly yet). As you may be aware, Chrome has actually had theme support for a while, but this was a far from elegant solution. It involved directly replacing certain files in certain folders, and it was no fun task to get back to the original style either. It's fantastic to see that now the browser will be able to support this officially, and will help them compete against Mozilla's already well established theme community for their browser, Firefox.
The latest build of Chrome supports push skinning, so if you head over to this link, you can test a couple out. The theme.crx file is the "Camo" theme, and theme2.crx is the "Snowflake" alternative. They're very basic themes, but there's certainly fantastic potential for the future. Expect to see this develop steadily in the coming weeks, building up to the official release of the gallery.
There were some pretty big extension news just in the latest few dev channel builds, actually.
I was thinking the same thing. Give me some cool firefox extensions and then maybe we'll talk..
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Google Chrome has a stable release (2.0) for a while now...
It's been out of beta for months...
Version 2 of the browser is no longer in beta
Only if you can commit to keeping up with the times. You're more than half a year behind...
My apologies though if you do in fact live under a rock.
Its much harder for multi-platform browsers, as the aim is to have it integrate into as many systems as possible, at the unfortunate cost of native interfaces. Firefox, for example, uses XUL, which it uses to draw its interface on every platform, meaning that there's one set of code to maintain, if it were to render using native controls and the like, they would have to maintain an interface for Windows, an interface for Linux, and so on, instead of just the one.
Chrome uses no more un-native elements than IE. Both of them have a custom toolbar with custom tabs. Everything else is native. If anything Firefox is the most native because it at least uses system native toolbars.
I'm sorry, but that looks just awful and has a ton of wasted space.
no one uses firefox for the aero look, or chrome, or IE. Themes are the lowest on the food chain. aside from that, too much glass you're showing.. its an eye sore!
Everywhere. So much unnecessary space taken from the site by the browser.
I think it looks ok, but the standard buttons sitting on the glass page are a little jarring. I got rid of the bookmark toolbar and went with the simple bookmark icon to the right of the address bar. Hell, with the AwesomeBar!! (I always see that with a couple of exclamation marks in my mind) I rarely even look at my bookmarks any more, I just go right to the address bar and type part of the bookmark name.
there is even support for user scripts aka greasemonkey scripts :p
Just get another browser, there are plenty out there now, and they all offer benefits over ie8. I really don't understand this fanboism, sure MS make some good stuff, there development tools are great, but that doesn't mean everything they do is the best.
there's no apostrophe in themes.
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