Other Material changes include new icons, tab shapes, and omnibox design to match mobile Chrome. “It also allows us to deliver a better rendering for a wide range of PPI configuration.” Chrome is “now rendered fully programmatically including iconography, effectively removing the ~1200 png assets we were maintaining before,” Google noted. It was first released to Chrome OS in April, but users on other platforms were able to try an experimental version by enabling certain flags.īesides a new flatter, sharper, and transparent design, Material is also a “huge engineering feat”, especially for Chrome OS and Windows.
The Material redesign of Chrome was announced earlier this year and unifies the browser’s look with the rest of Google’s Android and iOS apps. Other changes include removing the ability to use the backspace key as a return shortcut.
For Mac, the update notably adds Material Design to the browser’s top bar and other UI elements.
Version 52 of Google Chrome is now rolling out to all users via Google’s stable channel with the usual bug fixes and security patches.
