Chrome is another visual touch based on Material Design; paying off

Chrome is another visual touch based on Material Design;  paying off

Chrome’s face is pretty much the same since 2018, when the browser received one of the biggest visual updates in its history to celebrate its first decade. The material graphics language, which dictated the interface of Google ecosystems at that time, was the forerunner of the update, but many points (screens, elements, icons) were left out in the package.

In a flag recently made available in the list chrome: // flags, ran Google after the loss. An experimental feature called # update webui . brand Reworks some browser screens to better fit the visual style – and somehow bring them closer to material you, the design language that appeared at Google I/O 2021.

Modifications must be enabled in the chrome://flags menu in the #webui-branding-update option (Snapshot: Igor Almenara/Canaltech)

Extensions, download, history, and the manage settings screen are included in the change. NS Update It changes a bit of the browser experience, but leaves icons and titles larger, stamps each page with the Chrome logo, rotates around the corners of different elements, and replaces blue with white or black, depending on the theme chosen.

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Because it’s a visual change that’s still limited to beta versions (in Canaltech, I tried in Chrome Canary), modifications can still occur. Overall, the changes are very minor and upcoming updates may add new details to the batch, so nothing is fixed until it reaches the stable Chrome distribution (and there are no expectations for that yet).

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To activate the feature and check the result on your computer, you must activate Science # update webui . brand In beta versions of Chrome. If you still don’t see it, check that your software is updated correctly in the “About Google Chrome” section under “Help” in the top-right menu.

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