How to disable material design in Google Chrome
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.
- Visit chrome://flags/
- Search (
Ctrl
+F
) for "Material Design" - Switch to "Non-Material"
- Restart Chrome
Chrome's default theme should now be pretty again.
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