Bring back soft light instead of glaring white from Chrome 69 new UI.

Latest Version

Version

0.0.0.12

Update

September 28, 2018

Size

5.2KiB

Developer

Material Soft Light Theme

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Version 0.0.0.12
Color scheme updated
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Bring back soft light instead of glaring white from Chrome 69 new \"Material Design refresh\" UI. Well, a bit darker than original too, also some minor improvements, maybe even better. A theme that makes you feel comfortable. Enjoy the new 10th anniversary UI! :3

Improvements:
- Soft Light default New Tab Page
- Clearer text with higher contrast for bookmarks & tabs

Side effect:
- Prevent white flash when switching or reloading tabs sometimes

Limitations:
- Dark theme not fully available in the Incognito mode
- Custom background not available on the default New Tab Page. By the way, you can still use other New Tab Page extensions like Google Earth View or Tappy Cat without any problem.

Known issue:
- Gear on the New Tab Page almost not invisible sometimes, but it is still there on the bottom right. Chrome force using a light gray gear when not using the default theme.

This theme is designed for new UI from Chrome 69, you may not need this if you are still using old UI or Chrome 68, but it works great too. Personally, I think the new UI quite good, not bad, except the white.

It may look like pure grayscale same as old UI, however not really. It mixed up the color schemes from both new and old UI, it is a hybrid version.

It is a bit darker than original... actually because of the unchangeable address bar or Omnibox, avoiding to use a similar color, but it looks great too. Hope that Google will give us more control on a custom theme in the future.

Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx",\t"manifest_version": 2,\t"version": "0.0.0.12",\t"name": "Material Soft Light",\t"description": "Bring back soft light instead of glaring white from Chrome 69 new UI.",\t"author": "Ray",\t"icons": {\t\t"128": "images/icon128.png"\t},\t"theme": {\t\t"colors": {\t\t\t"frame": [199, 202, 208],\t\t\t"frame_inactive": [204, 208, 213],\t\t\t"frame_incognito": [32, 33, 36],\t\t\t"frame_incognito_inactive": [60, 64, 67],\t\t\t"background_tab": [210, 213, 217],\t\t\t"background_tab_inactive": [213, 215, 220],\t\t\t"background_tab_incognito": [38, 39, 42],\t\t\t"background_tab_incognito_inactive": [53, 56, 58],\t\t\t"toolbar": [230, 230, 230],\t\t\t"ntp_background": [230, 230, 230],\t\t\t"bookmark_text": [46, 48, 51],\t\t\t"tab_text": [32, 33, 36],\t\t\t"tab_background_text": [46, 48, 51],\t\t\t"tab_background_text_incognito": [189, 193, 198]\t\t}\t}}

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User reviews

Jessica Salmonson (darkocean) (ID: 0000006951e60248) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 09/19/2020 Ah that's a little better that bright white is hard on the eyes, but I don't want a black browsers so this works. Thank you :D Request! Please, make a Theme with larger tabs, set the smallest size about your ring finger width, and have an option to add a toll bar please! I like the tool bar because then the top of the browser doesn't look so squished. I want space between the top of the monitor and my browsers tabs. Thank you.

Максим Гаркунов (ID: 000000ae779c51bd) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/24/2020 Одна из лучших тем. Остальными пользоваться страшно т.к. вообще глазу неприятно из-за кучи картинок и т.д. В этой теме все элементы дизайна видны и не режут глаза!

romoney5 (ID: 0000003f71d2d6cd) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 10/20/2019 it completely changes my tabs white (not to worry about) and i cant see red in the x button

Cruz Cáceres (ID: 000000f1204b48bf) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/30/2019 Muy suave el tono de gris, todo se distingue bien y se integra sin problemas a los íconos.

Alex (ID: 0000006ff6d5c4a6) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 02/15/2019 优雅，舒服。

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