Changing the look and feel of Google Chrome with themes
By Jin Nan Goto
Google’s Chrome blog recently wrote a post about changes coming to Chrome. The latest beta for Google’s web browser came with tweaks to the Javescript engine, allowing it to run javascript even faster (30% improvement for the Sunspider and V8 benchmarks) and added more HTML 5 capabilities. Also included was a way to add themes to chrome. The new themes give Chrome’s previous no-frills Spartan look a much more visually appealing appearance. While not available in the stable release of chrome, you can download the beta to use the new themes. The Beta can be downloaded from http://www.google.com/landing/chrome/beta/. The easiest way to access the themes gallery is to go to https://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en/themes/index.html. However you can also open Chrome’s options and select the “Personal Stuff” tab and click the “Get Themes” button.
Google started by releasing 29 themes and plans to add more when Themes are added to the stable version of Chrome.
