How to disable material design in Google Chrome

Updated . Posted . Visible to the public. Deprecated.

It appears this no longer works in recent Chromes. You can still try installing a theme.

A few releases back, Chrome started using a Material Design UI on desktop. If you don't like it (on some window managers or GTK themes it's ugly), you can disable it.

  1. Visit chrome://flags/
  2. Search (Ctrl+F) for "Material Design"
  3. Switch to "Non-Material"
  4. Restart Chrome

Chrome's default theme should now be pretty again.

Arne Hartherz
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Arne Hartherz
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chromium, google, windows, linux, osx
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Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2016-09-19 08:59)