* Looking for a Search History Button?

In Chrome’s interface, the Search History feature has been integrated into the Back Button  – just hold down the mouse button when you?re clicking on the back arrow. After a short delay, a menu pops up showing your recently visited pages. You can also access the full history from that menu. If for any reason, Chrome is not responding, click your right mouse button and that normally does the trick.

* Where’s my Home Button?

By default Chrome has no Home Button. However, you can enable it by opening the options dialog: click the wrench icon in the top right hand corner and then “Options” and check the box labeled “Show Home Button..”. A little blue house representing your Start page will appear next to your Star Button.

* How about the Bookmarks Bar?

To show it or hide it, hit Ctrl+B.

One could legitimately argue that these aren’t really “Tweaks”. Point taken. We will hunt out more sneaky and underground Tweaks in upcoming posts.

Now for those who are curious to see how it works, you can download Google Chrome for Mac and Linux from the following links:

Google Chrome for Apple Mac OS X:
1. CrossOver Chromium for Apple Mac OS X

Google Chrome for Linux:
1. CrossOver Chromium for Ubuntu and Debian (32 bit)
2. CrossOver Chromium for Ubuntu and Debian (64 bit)
3. CrossOver Chromium for Red Hat, Mandriva, and Suse
4. CrossOver Chromium for all other Linux distros.

Bellow you can see some example:

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Yes, it’s true! When Google likes something, for example when someone talks about it and Microsoft is also included in the equation as a clown, it will print and save the article for a good laugh in the future.

That’s what the Google Crawler did today on the Chrome Tweaks forum.

For example, a blank page after activating the theme in your wp-admin. If so leave a comment and download again the archive, I’ve made a few changes!

The problem with the registration on the forum has been solved.

You can register now!

Happy posting and thx for your support!

• Google Chrome theme files with Chromium Theme Creator by vhanla – Download link
• GoRC.exe by Jeremy Gordon – Download link
• ResHacker.exe by Angus Johnson – Download Link

What you need to do next is unzip the files from theme-files.zip into a folder called “theme files” (for example) and also extract all the other programs in this folder. Make sure that gorc and reshacker are not in or separated folders in the root folder.

Now open Themer.exe and you’ll see some interesting things. You have the option to search for the theme path. Click search, a box will show up and click “yes” if you don’t know where Google Chrome’s theme is, then the software will automatically find it. Normally the theme is located in (yes Chrome is not installed in Program Files)

C:\Documents and Settings\Your User\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\Latest version\Themes\

and it has the name default.dll.

After you’ve successfully found the location you can begin editing, testing and building a new default.dll (a new Chrome theme).

For example when you go with your mouse cursor hover the elements in the image it will show you their name. You can either click on the elements and it will open you a folder with the png files or you can remember the names and go in the “theme files” folder and you’ll find a bunch of folders that contain png files.

For starters you should open all the image files with Adobe Photoshop and change the hue/saturation or you can just apply a gradient over them as an overlay or lighten layer. Save all files and overwrite theme with a .png extension, then press the “build” button in themer.exe and voila, you have a new Google Chrome theme.

Credits go to vhanla for this software, so thank him.

Now get to work and build awesome themes! I might as well design a Chrome theme but until then I want to create a gallery of themes designed by chrome users. That’s why I’ve added in the navigation menu a button – Submit themes – take a look there and if you have a theme submit it because when the gallery is done I’ll add it.

Futures:

• XHTML/CSS valid;
• Two sidebars 125px and 300px wide;
• Gravatars for comments;
• SIFR for headings;
• You can edit the logo with Photoshop – included PSD file and font
• Ad spots for easy monetization - 300×250px, 125×125px, 468×60px, 120×600px;
• Easy to edit;
• No sponsored links;
• Widget ready - both sidebars support widgets;

Demands:

• You may not remove the credit message (links) from the footer.php file.
• You are not allowed to redistribute, resell, claim intellectual and / or exclusive ownership of this theme.

I will also release some updates for this wordpress theme so please take a second and subscribe to my rss feed. Until then happy download and digg here!

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Updates:

• Added into the zip file the 404.php file. You can design it yourself now! Just download the archive and replace the 404.php file.
• If you experience any errors with the theme, like a blank page after activating the theme, please leave a comment. I’ve modified a few files, hope it works!