Google Chrome on Desktop May Soon Get a Material Design 2 Revamp

Back in February, new commits on the Chromium Gerrit that showed that Google was all ready to bring 'Material Design 2' to its Chrome web-browser. The company then started testing the new design language in Apr amidst reports that the new blueprint philosophy volition go alive on the stable channel on Google Chrome'south altogether, September 2nd. Latest developments now prove that the company may be on form to meet that time-frame.

According to open-source Chromium evangelist, François Beaufort, the new design language is now beingness rolled out to the latest builds of Chrome on the Canary channel for Windows, Linux and Chrome OS. It will apparently as well be available for Mac users, simply they volition need to turn it on manually by setting a couple of experimental flags.

Google Chrome on Desktop May Soon Get Material Design 2 Revamp — Image Courtesy: François Beaufort

The new interface comes with a number of visual tweaks, including a new address bar, redesigned tabs and updated colors. According to Beaufort, the Omnibox suggestion icons, tab strip coloring, pinned tabs and alert indicators will besides see some changes as role of the new design overhaul.

As can be seen in the prototype shared by Beaufort, the address bar now has rounded ends, giving it a more elliptical shape, while the tabs volition also have a more rectangular shape with rounded edges, which looks distinctly different from their current trapezoidal shapes.

Meanwhile, Google may also revamp Chrome on Android fairly soon. 1 of the new features that's expected to striking the Android version of the browser is a horizontal tab-switcher that the company has been testing in recent builds of the software, keeping in line with the new horizontal app-switcher that has been introduced in the latest build of Android P Beta.