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EVER feel like you want to give Google Chrome a fresh lick of paint?

Well there’s two ways to give Chrome a custom coat, should you want to personalise your browser.

1

Google has a number of pre-set designs to choose from, if you don’t want to go through the process of making your own.

But they’re certainly not as fun.

The tech giant introduced customisable colour schemes alongside the dark mode setting back in 2020.

Though sometimes you want to show a bit more of your personality with your browser.

The first way to create a custom theme for the browser is with a web app.

ThemeBeta is one web app which is favoured by experts, which you can use to add custom colour themes and images to Chrome.

Opera is another app which plants a Customise Chrome button on your Google search tab.

From there you can choose a custom Chrome background image.

The second option is for those who are a bit more tech-savvy.

It involved coding a theme with a manifest.json file.

Here’s how:

• Once you download the file or folder with your custom theme for Google Chrome, open the browser and enter chrome://extensions/ inside the search bar.
• Next, click the Developer mode option in order to turn it on.
• Now, drag and drop the downloaded file with your theme onto this page.
• Click Add theme in case you are asked for confirmation whether to add it or not. Your custom theme will now be added.
• It will be applied to your browser. If you want to reverse the changes, click the Undo button.

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