Google Chrome themes turn up

By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 05 August 2009, 15:37 IST   |    6 Comments
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Google Chrome themes turn up
Bangalore: It seems that Google is nearing release for a gallery showcasing themes to customize Chrome's appearance, judging by one reader's experience. When a person opens a new empty browser tab in Chrome, he finds that the browser shows an array of thumbnails of previously visited sites. Of these sites, the reader said that it was labeled 'Google Chrome Themes Gallery'. On the page, it had 29 official themes that ranged from subtle (grayscale) to hideously ugly (legal pad). The latest developer version of Chrome supports themes more easily for those who want to re-skin the browser. Most notably, there's a "Get themes" button in the options dialog box that links to what at present is an empty web page. Though themes, skins, and the like offer merely cosmetic changes, they're often popular among users. There's even a start-up, Brand Thunder that re-skins Firefox for sports teams and musicians. Mozilla is also working on a better Firefox personalization system called 'Personas'. Most of the analysts feel that themes aren't exactly all about productivity, strictly, it never hurts to spice things up a little bit and make workspace a little friendlier. To install these themes, a user needs to install Google Chrome 3. It's nice to have the option to personalize and skin the browser, but most of these themes are way too distracting.