New hint of Chrome theme gallery emerges

Stephen Shankland | Aug 04, 2009

This view of Chrome's new tab page shows a thumbnail for a '"Google Chrome Themes Gallery".
(Credit: CNET reader)

It looks like 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, the browser shows an array of thumbnails of previously visited sites. One of those sites, the reader said, was labeled "Google Chrome Themes Gallery". The screenshot shows a multicolored array of themes for the browser.

It's a good thing Google apparently is working on the Web site, because already Chrome is ready to be directly connected to it.

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 working on a better Firefox personalization system called Personas.

Via CNET News

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