The revamped designed can be tested in Chrome Canary channel

Jul 11, 2018 16:22 GMT  ·  By

Chromium evangelist at Google François Beaufort announced that the user interface of the Google Chrome web browser for Linux, Mac, Windows, and Chrome OS will soon get a refreshed Material design mode.

Chrome users have waited too long for a revamped interface of their favorite web browser, and it looks like will finally deliver it across all supported platforms, including Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, as well as Chrome OS, this fall with a new stable release, probably Google Chrome 70.

And it's not a minor change as Google Chrome's design team worked hard these past few months to update the browser's UI, including things like tab strip coloring, tab shape, pinned tabs, the single tab mode, alert indicators, and omnibox suggestion icons.

"Browser UI for Chrome OS, Linux, and Windows just got a Material design mode refresh in Canary channel," said François Beaufort on Google+. "Plenty of things have been updated for the better in my opinion: tab shape, single tab mode, omnibox suggestion icons, tab strip coloring, pinned tabs, and alert indicators."

How to test the new Material design of Google Chrome right now

Those of you who can't wait until a new stable release of the Google Chrome web browser hits the streets with the new Material design mode, can test it right now via the experimental Chrome Canary channel. However, you should keep in mind that this is still in active development and some bugs are present.

If you're using Google Chrome on Linux, Windows or Chrome OS, you can switch to the experimental Chrome Canary channel to test the new Material design. You'll have to set the experimental flags chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md to "Refresh" and chrome://flags/#views-browser-windows to "Enable" to try it out on macOS.

Revamped Material designed for Chrome UI
Revamped Material designed for Chrome UI