Backgrounds for the google chrome browser. How to install themes for Google Chrome

If you have a Yandex browser installed, then you probably sometimes want to change its appearance. It itself does not have such functions, but you can think a little and use a third-party service. And so, in today’s article, let’s figure out how to change the theme in the Yandex browser.

This web browser is updated quite often, and perhaps some items will be slightly different in new versions, but the essence will remain the same. For example, relatively recently a new interface was released that does not allow us to install third-party themes. However, this interface can still be disabled, which is what we will do now.

Launch the browser and click on the menu button in the upper right corner. From the drop-down list, select “Settings”:

Find the line “Appearance settings” and click on the “Turn off new interface” button:

That's it, now we can change its appearance. In order to download a theme, we will use the Google store for Chrome. You can follow the link https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/themes to get directly to the desired section (you need to go to this store and download from there, of course, only from within the Yandex browser).

Find the picture you like and click on it. A window opens with its description, reviews about it and other information. Click on the “Install” button:

Most of us spend a lot of time on the Internet browsing websites without paying any attention to the design of our web browser.

However, beautiful browser themes can brighten your day.

Today we will tell you how to change your appearance in this way.

Space Planet Theme

I don’t know about you, but when I see space pictures, I always freeze for a few seconds, looking at them, especially when I see such a frame for the first time, because it’s so hard not to admire them. The background image of a planet of an unusual color with glowing rings around it is no exception.

You may barely see the full image since it only shows when you open a new tab. Parts, on the contrary, you will see almost constantly (tabs and navigation bar). They are equally beautiful and have a mysterious indigo color that can be seen in the left corner.

Theme for Google Chrome – Beautiful Landscape

This theme has gold accents that are meant to remind the user of wood surfaces, and the tabs are metallic green, which I assume represents vegetation.

The background image in the new tab, in my humble opinion, is very majestic, so the name of this one definitely does not mislead the user and is completely true to reality.

Raindrops Browser Theme

So, here we have a theme with a real photo, which, by the way, looks quite calming against the backdrop of a new tab in your browser. You see parts of the same photo in the navigation bar tabs. It comes in various sizes. The Lite version does not include support for HD quality photography. In other cases, the only difference is Aero support.

As you can see in the screenshot, mine does not support Aero style, since I use Ubuntu as the operating system.

Download: Chrome.google.com

Autumn

Is it too early to establish fall-related themes? The author of this article, who prefers winter desktop wallpaper all year round, says no. Well, this is a beautifully illustrated theme that contains a wonderful background image for new tabs, and also fills the entire top of the browser with the same image, but in a different size.

This theme paints the tabs and navigation bar in a variety of colors, including orange, light blue, indigo and several others, which together create a rather unusual, pleasant color combination.

If you use the Google Chrome browser and are tired of its standard appearance, you can get out of the situation by downloading and installing a theme from the Chrome Web Store.

How to install a theme in Google Chrome: Settings - Options - Personal Content - Get Theme.

You can use ready-made themes for Google Chrome, or you can create a theme yourself using the online theme designer - Chrome-theme creator.
The online designer is located at www.themebeta.com/chrome-theme-creator-online.html

Create a theme for Google Chrome - Chrome-theme creator

I'll start with how to create a theme using the online designer - Chrome-theme creator.

The designer interface consists of two parts.

A). On the left side are the settings for the future theme.

b). On the right side is a preview of the Chrome browser theme during design.

Let's start with the first tab (“basic” - from English basic). Here you need to fill in the field with the name of the theme you are creating (optional). I named my theme “myStar”

The second tab (“Images” - from English images) is intended for loading theme details.
Attention: when you create pictures in a graphics editor or change ready-made pictures for a future topic, take into account the monitor resolution.

By hovering over the sections in the Images tab, a tooltip will appear highlighted in red, which shows which part of the theme you will be changing.

Let's load background images for our theme by clicking the “Choose Image” button, and use the palette to change the color. Here's what I got.

In the third tab (“Colors” - from English colors) we select colors for frames, text, etc. The third tab “Colors” also contains hints when hovering the cursor over sections. Let's see what I came up with.

The tab (“Pack” - from English to pack) is the final stage in creating a theme for Google Chrome.

“Pack and install theme” - pack and install the theme.

“Pack and download theme” - pack and download a theme with an extension. crx. To install the theme, just drag and drop the .crx file into the Chrome browser window and that's it. Isn't it quick to install a theme on Google Chrome?

"Pack and download zip file"- package and download the created theme as a zip archive. A Zip archive of the theme can be posted to the Chrome Web Store for public use.

That's all!!! With the help of the online designer - Chrome-theme creator, we figured it out.

The time comes and you get tired of the usual one, you want to add some zest to the most popular browser and such a “unique feature” in Chrome can be a “theme”, and not downloaded from the official online store, but your own, unlike anyone else.

As you may have already understood, today we will look at the issue of creating your own themes for the Google Chrome browser.

To create we need:

The simplest graphic editor (even Paint will do);
Our detailed instructions;
A little bit of desire.

And I'm not trying to deceive you, the coolest themes for the Chrome browser are created in a matter of minutes, but let's move on from words to action.

There are two ways to create a theme for Google Chrome:

Write from scratch (by creating one text document and several pictures);
Use a specialized online service.

While you decide which method to use, I’ll start with the “hardest” one.

Creating a theme for Google Chrome from scratch

Themes, as well as extensions for browsers based on the chromium engine, are based on the file manifest.json.

Manifest.json is a text document that stores settings for themes and extensions, as well as a title, description and other service information.

Let's create a new folder on the desktop with the name of our future topic, for me it will be called “Do not do it!”, and inside it we will create a text document - manifest.json, where manifest is the name of the document, and json is its . In addition, create an empty folder called “images” that will contain all the graphic elements of our theme.

The next step in creating a theme will be preparing images.

You can use ready-made images downloaded from the Internet or make your own; I will make completely unique images for subsequent uploading of the theme to the Chrome online store.

We will need images of the following sizes:

1. 1920x1080px (HD format) – for use as the main background in the browser.

2. 30x256px – this image will be used as a Chrome window decoration.

3. 1100x40px – this image will act as a splash screen in the upper left corner of the browser (I don’t know why you should use an additional image in this place separately - you can use it for additional “customization” of the theme).

4. 30x200px – it will act as a fill for inactive open browser tabs.

5. 30x256px – this image will be used to fill the active open tab and Chrome bookmarks bar.

Pay close attention to the images, in particular their sizes; if you don’t know how to make a picture of exactly this size and shape, study one of ours.

Well, if you already have everything ready, go ahead and create a file manifest.json.

You can download the completed file that I prepared as a sample - or compose it yourself according to the instructions below.

The document in which the code of our theme will be described begins with a curly brace “(”, then you need to fill in the fields:

( "name":"Do not do it!", // field indicating the name of the theme; "version": "1", // version number of your theme (later, when making changes to the themes, you need to update the version); " description":"Can still think twice?", // brief description of the topic; "manifest_version":2, // version of the manifesto (there are two versions of the “manifest” - 1 and 2, version 1 - for Chrome browsers below version 18, 2 for browsers version 18 and higher, inclusive).

"theme":( "images":( "theme_frame": "images/theme_frame.jpeg", // image used in the browser window design; "theme_toolbar": "images/theme_toolbar.jpeg", // image used as fill active open tab; "theme_tab_background": "images/theme_tab_background.jpeg", // filling inactive open tabs; "theme_ntp_background": "images/theme_ntp_background.jpeg", // the main background of our theme; "theme_frame_overlay": "images/theme_frame_overlay .jpeg"), // fill in the upper left corner.

"theme" :(

"images" : (

"theme_frame" : "images/theme_frame.jpeg" , // image used in the browser window design;

"theme_toolbar" : "images/theme_toolbar.jpeg" , // image used as fill for the active open tab;

"theme_tab_background" : "images/theme_tab_background.jpeg", // fill inactive open tabs;

"theme_ntp_background" : "images/theme_ntp_background.jpeg", // the main background of our theme;

"theme_frame_overlay" : "images/theme_frame_overlay.jpeg"} , // fill in the upper left corner.

The code on this page uses the symbol “//”, it is necessary to “comment” the code. Directly in the file manifest.json– it can be deleted.

Having specified the paths to the pictures, you should specify the colors of the fonts and interface elements. IN manifest.json RGB colors are used - you can get their codes in any online converter.

"colors":( "frame":, // Fills the empty space of the main background with the specified color; "toolbar":, // Fills the area in the lower left corner, where the site's "url" is displayed; "tab_text":, // Color font of the active open tab; "tab_background_text":, // Font color of the inactive open tab; "bookmark_text":, // Font color of bookmarks on the browser panel; "ntp_background":, // Background fill color under the "application" icons in the browser; "ntp_text":, // Font color of application names; "button_background":), // Color of the "Close", "Minimize", "Full Screen" buttons in the upper right corner.

"colors" :(

"frame" : [ 0 , 0 , 0 ] , // Fills the empty space of the main background with the specified color;

"toolbar" : [ 0 , 0 , 0 ] , // Fills the area in the lower left corner, where the site’s “url” is displayed;

"tab_text" : [ 255 , 255 , 255 ] , // Font color of the active open tab;

"tab_background_text" : [ 167 , 167 , 167 ] , // Font color of an inactive open tab;

"bookmark_text" : [ 167 , 167 , 167 ] , // Font color of bookmarks on the browser panel;

"ntp_background" : [ 0 , 0 , 0 ] , // Background fill color under “application” icons in the browser;

"ntp_text" : [ 167 , 167 , 167 ] , // Font color of application names;

"button_background" : [ 255 , 255 , 255 ] ), // Color of the “Close”, “Minimize”, “Full Screen” buttons in the upper right corner.

All that remains is to set the positioning of the main background image and a couple of additional settings.

"tints":( "buttons": // Specify the shades of the colors used (leave the values specified here);), "properties":( "ntp_background_alignment": "bottom", // Specify relative to which edge of the window the main image will be located (bottom – bottom, top – top); “ntp_background_repeat”: “no-repeat” // We indicate whether it is necessary to “fill” the entire space of the browser window with our image, if it is larger in size than our main image. ) )

Did you go through all the steps with me? Great, you can close the manifest file and save it and start testing the resulting theme by first loading the previously created images into the “images” folder.

Testing the theme for Chrome

Testing sounds too loud, in fact, we need to check whether we have made any mistakes in our work.

Do you already have a theme installed in your browser and need to modify it a little? No problem! Files of already installed themes in Chrome are stored at C:\Users\User_Name\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Profile 1\Extensions

Open your browser and go to Settings, Extensions tab and click Load unpacked extension. Be sure to check that “Developer Mode” is checked.

In the window that appears, select the folder with your theme for Chrome and click “Ok” - in my case, this is the “Do not do it!” folder.

Congratulations! The theme in the browser should have changed to yours, if not, then return to the code above and look for errors in your files and image resolutions, or download the archive with my files from the link - and compare with yours.

Now you can enjoy your own theme for Google Chrome, but in every barrel of honey there is a spoonful of you know what.

Every time you open your browser, a window will appear in the upper right corner informing you that one of the installed extensions or themes was not downloaded from the official store. There is only one way to avoid this - upload your theme to the official Chrome online store and install it in the browser from there.

How to upload a theme to the Chrome Store

If you decide to part with your hard-earned money, go through a simple registration in the online store at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions.

Having created a beautiful and unique theme, you can make installation paid for users - this way you will receive a small passive income.

After registering and paying for a developer account, you will have the opportunity to upload your own extensions and themes to the store with minor restrictions - no more than 20 extensions per account, the number of themes is unlimited.

First of all, package the theme files in and upload it to Chrome Store as shown in the screenshot.

If no errors occurred, information about your theme will appear on the main page of the developer panel with a link to the settings page, where you can change the description, add an icon, and publish the theme.

I will not describe all the fields available for filling - they are, therefore, well commented - if you have problems, write a comment under the post and I will try to help you.

Creating a theme for Chrome using an online service

In the first part of the article, I described a “complicated” method of creating themes for the Google Chrome browser, now let’s move on to a simpler one that does not require digging into the code and creating a lot of additional images. All you need is to go to the website - www.themebeta.com/chrome-theme-creator-online.html with a pre-prepared large background.

Chromium-based browsers do not support animated themes, but Opera does.

Once on the service, which, by the way, is in no way officially related to the Google corporation, you will see a work area where tools with comments (in English) are located on the left, a visualized Chrome browser window on the right, in which all changes made will be displayed, and At the bottom there are buttons for positioning your image relative to the browser window.

Enter a theme name and upload a background image. Immediately - make positioning settings or leave them at default.

On the “colors” tab you can set the colors of fonts used in different places in the browser. Hover your cursor over any of the proposed options on the left and the location of the change will be highlighted in red in the visualized window. All you have to do is work with the color palette to choose the ones you need.

Without downloading a lot of the extra images discussed above, your browser window will reflect the default Windows color scheme, i.e. For complete “customization” of the theme, you need to upload all the proposed images in the “images” tab, according to the sizes stated in the first part of the article.

By going to the “Pack” tab, you will be given three actions to choose from:

Install the resulting theme in the browser (remember the drawback with the window when opening the browser).
Package theme into file format crx and download it to your computer (this file is the installation file for themes and extensions in the Chrome browser).
Download the “source code” of the theme in a zip archive (you can immediately upload the finished theme to the online store).

I note that when using this service, your theme will be placed in the directory and will be available for download and installation by other users.

If you are interested, in the following posts I will describe the process of creating animated themes for the Opera browser.

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Relatively quickly winning the hearts of users around the world. I, too, was no exception to the rule and have been working with the blog exclusively on it for about a year now.

I am attracted by its absolute reliability (there are no complaints about this at all over the past period of time), good speed of operation and the rather rich functionality that Chrome can get due to the extensions available for it.

But the reliability and speed of Mazila’s work dropped significantly with the installation of each new plugin, which cannot be said about Google Chrome, which can create a separate process on your computer for each active add-on (this greatly increases the speed and overall stability of the browser). Well, today I want to talk about those that can be useful not only to the webmaster, but also to the average user of the global Internet.

General purpose Google Chrome extensions

In addition, the ColorZilla program has quite rich capabilities and even its own settings, but you will already learn about this with the help of your inquisitive mind. Let me just say that with the help of this plugin for Google Chrome you can view the entire color palette used on a web page, get the code for gradient colors to insert into your site using your own generator, view the history of captures and use different palettes to select the desired shade.

And, secondly, due to the extremely small distribution of the Alexa toolbar in the RuNet, by installing this plugin in the browser where you work with the site, you can slightly adjust this very indicator for the better. You will find a more detailed description of this action in the article just above.

Firebug Lite is an analogue of the super popular plugin. Chrome has already integrated similar functionality (select “View element code” from the right-click context menu), but nevertheless, such an extension has a place. I personally don’t like his work and that’s why I use the option for Mazila, but “all markers have different tastes and colors.”

Website statistics from LiveInternet.ru is a wonderful extension for Chrome that allows you to see website traffic according to the version, even if its owner has blocked the statistics with a password:

If such a counter is not installed on the site at all, then you can still estimate traffic by the place occupied by the resource among second-level domains in RuNet (it looks like the data is taken from Alexa) or by audience coverage (percentage of total RuNet traffic), and also understand the percentage of the core audience (regular visitors), the share of search traffic and the ratio of male and female gender among visitors.

In addition, using the SEO button you can get to the LiveInternet.ru Tools page. After completing a simple registration, you will get access to a number of services that will help you, for example, choose the optimal text size and the number of occurrences of keywords to get to the TOP of search results for the search query you are interested in (we just talked about this in a recent article on):

There you will also be able to analyze the site you are interested in, check the positions of the desired search queries in the search results (ala, ), and also.

SEO Site Tools is a bourgeois SEO plugin for Chrome that displays the value of the page opened in the browser on its button. If you place the above-mentioned RDS bar next to it, you will get a visual overview of the size of the pages opened in the browser:

In addition, when you click on its icon, you can get a lot of statistical data related to promotion. Among them will also be the number of additions of a page opened in the browser to other popular social networks and social bookmarks in the bourgeoisie.

SEO Quake is a popular add-on for many browsers that allows you to display a panel with various promotion indicators at the top of all web pages opened in Chrome. Very convenient when viewing potential donor sites. This plugin can display a similar panel in search results:

The SEO Quake plugin has a lot of settings, so it will take a long time to figure it out, but it’s worth it.

I also actively use Chrome on my tablet, but, unfortunately, it does not support add-ons, which I would really like. I hope that the developers will correct this annoying misunderstanding over time.

Themes for Google Chrome

The ability to change themes in Google Chrome is integrated by default, as in all other popular browsers. To change or restore the "default theme" you will need to go to settings by clicking on the wrench icon in the upper right corner and then selecting "Settings". On the page that opens, again select the tab of the same name, and there look for the “Appearance” section:

Click on the " Select a topic" and try to survey all the variety of beauty available there. Themes are installed in the same way as extensions:

If the downloaded theme is not to your taste, then you can safely continue your search, but if you are completely disappointed in it, no one is stopping you from returning to the default theme used in Google Chrome (the corresponding button in the previous screenshot).

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site