The New Tab Page customization menu v2 available behind a flag in Chrome 78 Canary has progressed further to bring the ability to create a custom theme for Chrome browser. Chrome browser already ships with 20 themes to customize browser appearance, now Chromium team added “Custom Color Picker” to Colors menu to let you make a theme on your own.
Till now on part of New Tab Page customization, Chromium team added Colors Picker and 20 new themes to colors menu. Do remember, Google offers plenty of themes for Chrome browser on Web Store, recently Chrome team published 14 news themes also. Without further ado, to see the new features in action, in latest Chrome Canary, visit chrome://flags and enable below three flags and relaunch the browser.
NTP Customization menu version 2
Chrome colors menu
Custom color picker for Chrome colors menu
The last flag mentioned above appeared recently in Chrome flags page and started working from today onwards. Here is how you can create custom theme in Chrome browser
1. Launch Chrome Canary
2. Click Customize, select “Color and Theme”
3. Click on the pencil icon in the circle, and enter values for R, G and B from 0 to 255 or enter Hex code, click tick mark to apply changes to the browser.
4. Now visit “Background” section and upload an image from your computer or select from the collection displayed and click Done, you can even turn on “Refresh daily” for Chrome to automatically change new tab page background.
5. Soon Chrome will allow to curate shortcuts for NTP on your own when you visit “Shortcuts”, at present not working, you can choose another option to show shortcuts from most visited websites on NTP.
Till now to modify Chrome-look, you need to visit Web Store and install themes available, but now you can create a customized theme for Chrome browser on your own, what do you say on these improvements Google is bringing to Chrome browser?
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