

If you read my previous article about Redesigning Chrome for Android, this one will be similar although I tried, somewhat unsuccessfully, to keep it lighter on the technical details… and it’s only in one part this time.

Windows is the culmination of that process and while Chrome is never finished, it felt to me like the right time to take a look back and reflect on this process that almost took 2 years, hopefully delivering some details and experiences that might be useful to you. It is the last step of a three phase deployment of the new design,which started in 51 with Chrome OS and Linux, followed by macOS in 52. Stability and performance improvements.In the beginning of September 2016, the new Chrome Core UI redesign, or so called “Chrome MD” (for Material design), rolled out on Windows as part of our 53rd update.Now navigation between pages would be more faster with this edition Chrome supports Backward-Forward-Cache in the desktop version also.Sitewide Zoom: This edition also equips the user to customize zoom to various percentage for sites of their choice.Sitewide Dark Theme: Dark theme gets new life with site wide customization and now users can enable or disable dark themes to sites of their choice.More power to Progressive web apps (PWAs) as now they can register themselves as URL handlers which could make them more reliable than their counterpart web versions.

