{"id":8842,"date":"2009-08-05T15:49:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T14:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/customize-google-chrome-with-themes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:21:19","slug":"customize-google-chrome-with-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/customize-google-chrome-with-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"Customize Google Chrome with themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re beginning to get tired of Chrome&#8217;s minimalist design, here&#8217;s some good news for you: Google has finally launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/tools.google.com\/chrome\/intl\/en\/themes\/index.html\"><strong>theme gallery for Chrome<\/strong><\/a> with which you can spice things up a bit in a couple of clicks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/08\/chrome-themes-01.png\" alt=\"Customize Google Chrome with themes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The gallery currently offers 29 different themes for your browser &#8211; if you count the default as well. They&#8217;re all dead easy to use. All you have to do is make sure you&#8217;re running Chrome 3 beta, head to <a href=\"https:\/\/tools.google.com\/chrome\/intl\/en\/themes\/index.html\">the gallery<\/a>, choose the theme you like most and hit the &#8216;Apply theme&#8217; button. Chrome will start downloading the corresponding file and apply it to the interface right away. If you like the result, keep it; if not, simply choose another theme, or restore the default design from the top bar that appears after installing each theme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/08\/chrome-themes-07.png\" alt=\"Customize Google Chrome with themes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As for the selection of themes in itself, I have conflicting feelings: on the one hand, it&#8217;s great that Google has finally managed\u00a0 to produce some skins with which to customize its browser; on the other hand, I&#8217;ve had a hard time choosing one. They&#8217;re definitely not the most beautiful themes I&#8217;ve seen &#8211; not to say most are frankly ugly &#8211; and some of them even make the browser harder to use, due to a strange combination of colors or a weird background design.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I think you might want to have a look at some of the themes included in the gallery after the jump and decide by yourself.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/08\/chrome-themes-06.png\" alt=\"Customize Google Chrome with themes\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/08\/chrome-themes-05.png\" alt=\"Customize Google Chrome with themes\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/08\/chrome-themes-04.png\" alt=\"Customize Google Chrome with themes\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/08\/chrome-themes-03.png\" alt=\"Customize Google Chrome with themes\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/08\/chrome-themes-02.png\" alt=\"Customize Google Chrome with themes\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re beginning to get tired of Chrome&#8217;s minimalist design, here&#8217;s some good news for you: Google has finally launched a theme gallery for Chrome with which you can spice things up a bit in a couple of clicks. The gallery currently offers 29 different themes for your browser &#8211; if you count the default &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/customize-google-chrome-with-themes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Customize Google Chrome with themes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-8842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335437,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842\/revisions\/335437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8842"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=8842"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=8842"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=8842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}