Get Material Design UI for Chrome Today! | No Downloads
Google has planned to get Chrome its Material makeover since a year, but still, there’s nothing much that we have got and if you’re the sort of person like me who just can’t wait, here are the steps that you need to follow to get your chrome a material UI. Also, these tricks currently work only on Chrome for Windows or Chrome OS, not Mac.
Material Settings
This is a simple one, just enter CHROME://MD-SETTINGS in your Omnibox (Address Bar) and you gift yourself a new settings tab. As this is still a beta, you can’t use all the features like the wallpaper button which is still inactive.
Try it and you will see this:
Address, Bookmark Bar & Downloads
To get these features, you need to manually enable the flag to get the new look. To do this, follow the steps:
Enter CHROME://FLAGS
Find ‘ENABLE MATERIAL DESIGN DOWNLOADs’ (use Ctrl+F) and choose the enable option.
To get any flag feature activated, you’ll first need to relaunch the browser for it to take effect, but before you go that follow the next steps to save time.
Now, search & enable ‘ MATERIAL DESIGN IN THE BROWSER’S TOP CHROME ’ to get over your snoozy address and bookmark bars
Now restart the browser and get yourself a material design-dose!
Bonus: Material PDF Viewer and Policy Page
I’m not sure you may need this, but you can simply get a material design PDF viewer and Google’s Policy Page in chrome just by enabling “MATERIAL UI FOR PDF” and “MATERIAL DESIGN POLICY PAGE” in the Chrome’s flags section (chrome://flags).
UPDATE: Now get these features too:
Material Design in the browser’s top chrome
Material Design in the rest of the browser’s native UI (Bubbles, dialogs)
Material Design User Manager
Material Design Feedback
Material Design History
Material Design extensions
Get all the new updates by simply searching
"Material" in the Flags page and enabling these
options.
I hope that we will get completely new Google Chrome soon, but until then you can use these tweaks to fulfill your zest. Did you like this new Chrome? Tell us in the comments. And don’t forget to share this with other Chrome users!
