Category — themes

On the latest Google Chrome Dev Update, the team has added a simple and good looking shortcut to Google Chrome Themes gallery from the New Tab page.

With this shortcut, changing themes is as simple as two mouse clicks ! Now, here is the screenshot.

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Do you like these new themes of Google Chrome ? I couldn’t find anything better than the default theme … really !! what is your experience ?

An year after it’s first release, Google Chrome has a new stable release today, with a long list of new features and improvements. Let’s take a look at what they are.

Before we start, let me tell you something, if you have are a regular reader of ChromeStory.com, none of these features will be news to you, because I always bring you the latest news on new features, while  it is still being developed. But still, if you were not using Dev or Beta version of Chrome, it will be fun to go through them again, and start using these cool features ! So, read on.

Faster Page Loading and Java

I have experienced this difference ever since I started using Google Chrome, and it got better day by day. For me, this is the fastest application on my desktop, which starts within a second when Clicked. And on Java script processing, this version is 150% better than the very first release of Google Chrome. Speed really matters when you are online, so you can’t ignore Google Chrome’s achievement here. Kudos !

Sexy New Tab Pages.

You know what’s the best thing about Google Chrome that I love ? Its this : When Google Chrome first came out, most of the complaints and criticisms I heard was about the new tab page, showing the most visited websites to everyone, no option to re order or remove something from there etc. Now, this very new tab page is the most appreciated feature of Google Chrome.

Why ? Some serious work has gone in to the design and abilities of this page. Now you can remove websites from this page, re order, make them a list, and more. Read all about it here, my old post here.

Themes !!

Yes, themes are now available for all Google Chrome users. If you are looking for a change, try them !.  It’s really easy to change the theme here. Go to the Theme Gallery, and click on “apply theme” link next to the theme of your choice, and you are done ! You can always go back to the default theme if you want to.

HTML5 capabilities

HTML 5 is being added to Chrome with this release. In Google’s Words,

We’re very excited about HTML5 becoming standard in modern browsers, and continued to add HTML5 capabilities to this stable release. We’re particularly excited about the <video> tag in HTML5, which makes embedding videos in a page as simple as embedding regular images. The <video> tag also allows video playback without a plug-in

So, here is what you should do now, share this information with your non-chroming friend, and make them use Google chrome

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There is a new development about Google Chrome for Linux and Mac. ReadWriteWeb found a change in the Google Chrome privacy policy that hints to the release of Google Chrome for Linux and Mac operating systems.

The Change.

OLD:

The Privacy Policy below applies only to Google Chrome for Windows. For the Developer channel releases on other platforms see the privacy policies for Mac OS X and Linux .

NEW:

The Google Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use Google’s products and services

On Google Chrome for Windows, You can configure Google Chrome to not send cookies to Google or other sites as explained here. Google Chrome for Mac and Google Chrome for Linux currently do not allow this level of configuration.

So, we have a strong reason to believe that release date for the stable version of Google Chrome for Linux and Mac is near.

Is it a BIG news ?

It is a big news for people who do not use the development version of Google Chrome for Mac and Linux. However, for those who do not use these, will be really excited to see this news. There is another group who can be happy about this. When they released Chrome development version for Linux, it was only for Ubuntu users. So, users on other Linux distributions like Fedora was left out. This time when the stable version of Linux Chrome is out, we should expect Chrome for all distributions on Linux.

PLUS, I believe that Google will bring the Extensions and Theme support for all platforms Windows, Mac and Linux, to the stable versions. It’s going to be REAL BIG !!

Yes, the wait is over. You can now select themes from the official Google Chrome themes gallery. But wait, even though you can browse through this theme gallery you can not install themes unless you are using developer or beta version of Google Chrome ( if you want to change to dev  or beta channel, click here ). You can see themes very soon on the normal ( stable ) Google Chrome installations too. First, check out the gallery here.

There are about 30 themes on the official gallery right now. You will see more themes very soon, because there are many available on the web which are not yet listed on the page.

How do I use the theme gallery ?

On the options page of your Google Chrome, you will soon see ” Reset to Default theme” and “get more themes”. When you click on ” Get more themes” you will reach the themes gallery, and select the theme and click “apply”. That will download the theme and apply it for you. Easy .. right ?

So, get ready to change colors of your Google Chrome !! Me ? hmm I didn’t change it yet … because I love this default blue !!

Yes, it’s almost there. Google Chrome themes official themes gallery page is being set up. We will see it going online very soon. I got really excited when I saw this news on Techcrunch. Why ? you know that I love everything about Google Chrome, right ?

Techcrunch says that they found the theme gallery while deleting some thumbnails from the new sexy new tab page. Well, I did try that on Windows XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu, and I can also confirm that this is true. So, What’s the URl where you find this new theme gallery for Chrome ? Go here. You will see a 404 not found page there now. But, with the next dev update or stable update, you can see the gallery live.

Until now, installing new theme or changing to the default one was really tough. You should download theme theme file, and place it inside a particular folder, and then try to change it etc. But, when the new theme gallery is live, you will see new themes being installed and uninstalled in few mouse clicks. Plus, you get a single web page to browse a large themes database.

So, wait for the next news from me, when everything is ready, and live. Happy Google Chrome Hours for you all !!