Google’s web browser is about to get a facelift. Google is working on a graphical overhaul of Chrome on Windows, macOS and Linux.
The Google Chrome interface as you currently know it on Desktop should soon evolve. Google is indeed working on a graphic overhaul of its web browser. And as with every future change coming to Chrome, the clues are fairly easy to unearth, since Google hides them right in the experimental features of its browser.
It’s not really a surprise. The first elements suggesting that Google was looking at a new Chrome interface date back to last November, when leaker Leopava64 spotted code referring to it.
Google has started working on a “super secret” Chrome UI refresh for 2023https://t.co/Rxb4ENbn9e
“Super secret, totally not public ChromeRefresh2023 flag”https://t.co/zUZNotOaoK
“Chrome2023Refresh Buttons initial infrastructure
Adding some properties for initial Button changes pic.twitter.com/yalUMPbPC9—Leopeva64 (@Leopeva64) November 18, 2022
For now, this “refresh” as Google calls it is only available on Chrome Canary, an unstable version of Chrome reserved for developers and which generally integrates the latest advances to come in the browser. If you are curious and want to access a preview of what Chrome will soon look like, go to the page chrome://flags/#chrome-refresh-2023 from Chrome Canary. Then activate the flag Chrome Refresh 2023 and passing on the parameter Enabledthen restart Chrome Canary by clicking the button Relaunch.
No big revolution
In addition to the likely arrival of Material You in Chrome Desktop, which will adapt the colors of the window according to the wallpaper configured on the Chrome home page, do not expect a revolution from this “refresh”. Unless Google hasn’t revealed all its secrets yet, Chrome’s graphical overhaul isn’t likely to upset your habits.
The few really visible new features focus, for now, on the modernization of buttons and text fields that abandon their square ends in favor of rounded edges.
Google could also take the opportunity to introduce its new extension management system as we saw a few weeks ago. This Chrome interface refresh is expected to roll out to Windows, macOS, Linux, Fuchsia, and Lacros soon. No availability date is currently known. You will probably have to wait a few weeks to be able to enjoy it.
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