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Support themes from the Chrome Web Store - Discussion
We have heard your desire to install and use the custom themes that are available on the Chrome Web Store. We have been working to make them work seamlessly on the next version of Microsoft Edge. We have hit some snags along the way, with some extensions behaving in unexpected ways. We are dedicated to providing our customers with a good user experience and so we want to work through these issues before we publish a target date. In the meantime, we are always trying to learn more about how and why, you our customers, really use these products. In this spirit, we would love to know how you use custom theme extensions. For example, do you use them to personalize your browser, and make it feel more yours? Do you use them in different profiles, so that you can tell at a glance which persona you are using while browsing the web? Do you use them to make the browser easier to use or more accessible? Is there something that you do with theme extensions that we haven’t even though of? What is missing from this experience that we could add to make it truly delightful?
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- Who needs chrome themes while there is ALREADY a great theme for Edge: FLUENT DESIGN! Give it back to us!
- If Fluent design also brings Acrylic/transparent theme then I'm all in too! :3
HotCakeX wrote:
If Fluent design also brings Acrylic/transparent theme then I'm all in too! :3That would be great!! That would be the best thing Windows and Microsoft would have ever done as far as appearance of apps and services goes. Combining the rounder corners and more fluent, modern look with the Acrylic would look so good.
- There should be custom themes also be added on Microsoft store where people can add and find suitable themes for their needs.
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Deleted wrote:@ am not a big fan of these blurry effects at all... so not my priority. I would like to see more features than just adding GUI polishing...
Well this thread/topic is only about polishing/themes and making UI beautiful
Personally I find the Google Chrome themes a bit too limiting. Especially in the way they don't affect the menus/pop-ups like the three-dot menu.
I'd like to see something like Firefox has, which you can see here at Firefox Color and see the components that can have their colours specified in the Custom Colors tab. Note the Popup background and Popup text, which affects e.g. the popup 'hamburger menu, except the popup doesn't show in the interactive upper part of that page in Edge, unlike when that page is loaded in Firefox. For me I would either want the popup background and text to be colours the user can specify, OR the popup background and text should follow the Toolbar color and Toolbar icons and text respectively, not just remain unaffected by themes as in Google Chrome..
And by the way It would be great if Edge had a facility like color.firefox.com, where the user can specify the colours they want, then save it out as a theme (zip or xpi) that can either just be used personally or uploaded to the themes part of the extensions store.
Just my two cents: personally not a great fan of theming (in my experience it always looks messy in Chrome, doesn't really add much). As for transparency: more a distracting gimmick than functional (particularly in an app in which you spent so much production time as your main web browser).
IrinaL Hi Irina! I am definitely happy with the dark-mode theme! Indeed: for me personally (and to be honest, I guess for most users I know) chrome-style browser themes don't add use value. The few times I went to the Chrome Store to pick a custom theme, it took a lot of time to find anything decent-looking and it was never an improvement over the much more polished "stock" theme. BTW: if anything, I could see how expanding the current set of two themes (dark / light) with one or two extra well designed color themes would be a nice touch.
I am unable to open Chrome Web Store for the past couple of days. I know this is out of topic but I am unable to find a suitable topic to address this issue. Any help would be highly solicited.
Hello harindra_kumar_G
Which Edge insider channel/version are you using?
also whenever you can't find a suitable topic, you can always open a new topic in here:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/bd-p/EdgeInsiderDiscussions
Elliot Kirk For me, I use themes to make up for faults or lack of customization in the program itself.
For example, I like BLACK for Dark mode, but Microsoft uses light grey. I would download a DARK mode theme that would make it completely black, and perhaps offer customization, like each TAB having a new color. Sometimes it is just for fun (holiday/seasonal themes. The reason I do not use Dark mode extensions, is they all see to have issues on web pages such as Wunderground, and display the map as a blank circle, or some other fault.
- Ditto. Extensions for Dark mode do not work well at all. Needs to be internal, and Dark not Light dark.
- I do not care about themes as long as you make use of Fluent Design and Edge blend with the Windows system look and feel.
Elliot Kirk It gives a different feel to the browsing experience.
Transparency, pictures and colour would be nice!
- IrinaL
Microsoft
noahdsmith and others on the thread... Could you give us more detail on what you mean by "transparency, pictures, and colour"? Which areas of the browser are you expecting to be affected by those elements and what would be helpful/visually pleasing to see? How are you expecting to customize your browser? Which areas of the browser or functionality would you find not useful?
IrinaL wrote:noahdsmith and others on the thread... Could you give us more detail on what you mean by "transparency, pictures, and colour"? Which areas of the browser are you expecting to be affected by those elements and what would be helpful/visually pleasing to see? How are you expecting to customize your browser? Which areas of the browser or functionality would you find not useful?
I would like to see it in the background (just like the old Edge in HotCakeX 's pictures) and in the other tabs that aren't the one that is currently in use. It really should just be the entire top bar, but just not the current tab.
Don't know about themes, but I care about apps available on chrome webstore like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/authy/gaedmjdfmmahhbjefcbgaolhhanlaolb
These apps are also not supported on chromium edge, and those are just like extensions but apps of highly importance to me. I'm sending them feedback since first canary build, but they aren't listening to this important bug of chromium edge.
I'm just hoping they would fix it someday.- And Google keep, neither the extension nor the app works in Edge insider canary.
I would gladly use a Microsoft equivalent but they need to release a standalone Sticky notes app for Android and also an standalone website to easily access Sticky notes on web.
currently it's inside outlook.com but the user interface is so bad because Outlook.com is made for Emails and not for notes keeping.
a separate domain such as notes.Microsoft.com or Notes.office.Microsoft.com is so much better.- Solution is not some alternative to every bug, it is something microsoft should fix and that's why we have dev and canary versions to give them feedback to fix the bugs.
I hope they fix this one soon.
- Themes? I loved the idea, that was something that was needed, this and being able to choose a background image.
