A small but interesting makeover of Google Chrome is coming, at least for desktop operating systems. Colleagues of 9to5google managed to find and enable a new experimental flag, whose name leaves very little to the imagination: chrome://flags/#chrome-refresh-2023. Needless to expect a twist on what we’ve seen so far – there are minor tweaks and refinements. For instance:
- A thin dark line better outlines the boundary between Windows interface elements and the browser actual in the area where the tabs are listed.
- Buttons and text entry fields abandon the rectangular shape with rounded corners in favor of the “pill” style increasingly popular in Google software thanks to Material You.
- Support al had also previously been observed dynamic theme based on the background of the New Tab page and a new style for the toggles, as demonstrated by the animation contained in the tweet below:
As part of Chrome’s 2023 refresh, Google will change the design of the toggles, this is how they would look like: https://t.co/ku0vvRJRx1
. pic.twitter.com/2xHs0FlPiL— Leopeva64 (@Leopeva64) January 24, 2023
It is necessary to specify that development is still ongoing and Google may have other surprises in store for its users. There are no more precise indications on a possible release date of the refresh. Last detail: if you want to personally try out the new graphics, you need to install Chrome Canary.
