15 Responses to “Google Chrome Skins / Themes - Third Update!”

1. Gadgetman496 Says:
   September 9th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

   The Black Tube Chrome is nice but I have noticed one issue with it. If you have Chrome open & you open Outlook Express the top bar of Chrome turns Google Blue, once you close OE it turns black again.

   This is not happening with any of the other themes I’ve tried?

   It’s as if one of the .png files from the original skin is still blue.

2. Iurko Says:
   September 9th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

   I downloaded one of the chrome skins and it is an IE direct access to the same website of the download and a .dll that doesn’t do anything. If you could please enlighten me as to how to install the new skin that would be great. Thank you so much.

3. Gadgetman496 Says:
   September 9th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

   Have you updated Chrome?

   There was a recent update & if you applied it, it creates another set of folders in the Explorer directory tree. Effectively you end up with two “Themes” folders. Make sure you are dropping the new dll file into the correct themes folder (it will be the 2nd one in the tree).

   I’m not sure if Google have done this in order to be able to roll back or if it’s an error?

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4. aLee Says:
   September 10th, 2008 at 12:02 am

   @lurko - Here’s the installation method from the first post

    

   “How to install? I hear you say.. so to install these themes, download your favorite theme/skin, unzip it and replace the file named “default.dll” with the one found in the directory tree below (back it up first!)

   Users on Windows XP
   C:\Documents and Settings > User > Local Settings > Application Data > Google > Chrome > Application > 0.2.149.27 > Themes

   Users on Windows Vista
   C:\Users > User > AppData > Local > Google > Chrome > Application > 0.2.149.27 > Themes “

    

   @Gadgetman496- Maybe the theme developer was in a hurry to launch the theme lol .. and yes I have also noticed the error of two similar folder trees, they might fix it soon (like they always do)

    

5. Gadgetman496 Says:
   September 10th, 2008 at 12:11 am

   I hope they do aLee, It’s a nice skin\theme

    

   Just to mention that if you click on the “Spanner” icon in Chrome & choose the “About Google Chrome” option it will tell you if Chrome is at the latest version. If it’s not it will display an “Update” button.

    

   The latest version of Chrome 0.2.149.29 so if anyone has updated the location path for the dll file will be slightly different to what you have posted, it will be

    

   C:\Documents and Settings > User > Local Settings > Application Data > Google > Chrome > Application > 0.2.149.29 > Themes

    

   The correct themes folder will always be under the latest version number folder.

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6. aLee Says:
   September 10th, 2008 at 5:54 pm

   thanks dude for sharing that useful information with my readers, appreciated.

    

   Cheers

7. Puh Says:
   September 27th, 2008 at 5:26 am

   You are a theft and have stolen my Camouflage Chrome Theme

8. Gadgetman496 Says:
   September 27th, 2008 at 5:32 am

   Nobody stole anything!

   This is merely another resource for collect skins.

   I heard nobody claiming it was theirs…

   Look at the opening statement on this page:

   “Yes! another update which takes the counter to Top 20 Google Chrome Themes and Skins ! Hats off to the fast response from the theme developers once they came to know that Chrome supports themes. Here is the update.. “

9. aLee Says:
   September 27th, 2008 at 5:39 am

   @Puh Well mate, like Gadgetman already stated, My intentions are to collect and provide themes to my readers, Im giving full credits to you for the theme. You can not get furious just because the name I gave is more famous then the name you gave

    

   @Gadgetman496 Cheers mate!

10. Stephen R. Diamond Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 1:24 am

    Skins made for previous Chrome versions seem incompatible with the latest beta, v 0.3, causing the browser to crash on launch. But I cannot locate confirmation or compatible skins.

    Can you tell your readers when they might expect compatible revisions?

11. afflatus Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    Themes compatible for v 0.3??

12. shane Says:
    November 9th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    it wont let me use it…. on start up it crashes =/

13. z Says:
    November 9th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    It’s possible to use it with Chrome 0.3 as well, but first you need to convert it compatible with the new chrome…
    1. download ThemeUpdater: http://www.codigobit.net/
    2. download ResourceHacker: http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/
    3. put the reshacker.exe to the same directory with ThemeUpdater.
    4. download skin dll, run ThemeUpdater, drag dll to the application window and press “Start” - conversion will take some time.
    5. replace the default.dll with the new one, renaming it to Default.dll like usual

14. Gadgetman496 Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    Excellent response z.

    Very clearly explained & works a treat.

    Thanks for posting the Info & the links too.

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15. aLee Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    hey z, thanks man..
    writing a separate post to explain this..

    cheers

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