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MicrosoftSupport 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?
Hi, thanks for sharing!
I think the most beautiful theme that developers can create is to enable Transparent or Acrylic style for the Edge insider UI, it's a highly requested feature.
one more thing is that please create an option so we can choose a separate color for Edge insider's top bar. currently it gets its color from the Windows 10's color but I want a separate color for Edge insider browser window. Google chrome allows this which is convenient.
for example I use purple for my Windows color and it looks nice on all apps and programs but on Edge insider browser, in the top bar, there are tabs with texts and buttons, so that limits my choice of colors and forces me to choose a color that would make those texts more clear.
if you implement this option, I would just set Edge insider top bar color to black and the rest of my apps use the Windows 10's color. ThanksTranslucent Topbar as in Original Edge would be great
I used themes in Chrome a while ago, mostly to give it a unique look instead of bland white. I don't really plan to use any particular theme in Edge besides the Edge Classic (Fluent / Transparent) theme. However, there was something in Chrome that I always hated... no Theme History.
Without theme history, I can't try out new themes or compare more than two themes at a time (unless I create multiple profiles, I guess). Being able to visually see how many recent themes I can revert to,would also be great.
Last I checked, Chrome's theme history was just a "revert" button, and there was no way to temporarily preview a theme. I've lost some pretty cool and hard to find themes because of this. Theme History is a really important feature, so something like Windows 10's recent backgrounds and recent colors would be extremely well appreciated.
I stopped exploring theme options in Chrome because I knew I could lose the theme I liked best.
- Acrylic / Transparent theme...I could only wish to have it in the new Edge insider... 🤞
- I personally like things the way the Browser is heading, it is more than enough for what I need and have become quite conversant with most of it ~ I like the recent changes a lot particularly the settings page etc!
Elliot Kirk Please support different window-decoration colors per profile.
I don't actually care whether the themes supported are from the Chrome Web Store or not, I just want to be able to have different Edge Profiles have different window-title colors.. like I can in Chrome Profiles.
In Chrome, I use Profiles extensively, and I'm happy to see the Edge team has done more work to make Profiles useful. However, I need to be able to better visually tell apart the different profile windows. Here is a picture of how I have a different "chrome theme" per profile in Chrome:
Elliot Kirk that is great news, for me it is to personalize my browser
- 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.
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.
I need Themes to support distinguish between browsers.
I have current edge profiles:
- Personal (Microsoft account) - private use, facebook, youtube , private browsing etc.
- Work1 (organizatoinal account) . my primary job / organization etc, intune, Office 365 etc.
- Work2 (organizationl account), my secondary job / organzation, Office 365 etc.Also, I am IT pro and Dev, and using incognito mode etc.
So this is lot of profiles, windows, incognito etc.So all of those have same icons / title bars, and is hard to distinguish.
So please, make some theming, colors on something (title bar, settings, general color), but mostly also the shortcut file / taskbar icon etc.- Kam & Elliot Kirk
True, it would be great if Microsoft adds its own themes and allows outsiders to add their themes to the Edge Add-Ons website rather than supporting Google's theme on the Chrome web store.
Kam wrote:You could make your own theme store.
Microsoft already has its store, just needs to add a "themes" section to it
- 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
