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Google is giving its Chrome logo a new, flatter look.(Credit:screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)
Google gave its browser a new logo yesterday, a design that drops the bubbly 3D look for a flatter, more geometric look.
The new design is no surprise: an all-blue version of the new logo showed up for Chromium, the open-source foundation of Chrome, a week ago.
It's just a cosmetic change, of course, but people often care about such skin-deep matters. That's why the ability to reskin Chrome andFirefox were deemed important features even if they don't do much for loading Web pages faster or enabling new Web applications.
The new logo first surfaced with Chrome 11.0.696.12, a developer-channel release launched yesterday to fix a number of bugs, including one that really annoyed me, a failure to show Web addresses in a pop-up status bar when I hovered over links.
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