You can see a more apparent example of the phenomenon Hu talks about on this website. Hu says the company found that certain shades of those two colors produced an “unpleasant color vibration” when placed next to one another. But the most impactful change the company introduced is that it added subtle gradients to the green and red segments of the icon.

It also changed the proportions of the symbol while brightening up the individual colors that make it up.

If you look carefully, you’ll notice Google removed the shadows that were part of the icon, opting for a more flat design that’s in line with the company’s other products. Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it. PT with some new Chrome features in the works and Google comment.This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Also, a feature that can preload pages so they appear faster when a person clicks their link will show up with more testers: Google is expanding it to 5 percent of browser users. Peter Beverloo noticed a few, including the ability to select multiple tabs, which is handy for managing the tab chaos some of us suffer, and abbreviated tab titles to better distinguish similar pages. Google is working on more substantive changes, too. 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.

For me, especially when viewing the logo in smaller sizes such as Windows 7's task bar and Mac OS X's dock, it looks top-heavy. Personally, I think the red section appears a bit too thick, no doubt because of some optical illusion rather than some miscalculated radius. We're working on refreshing the icon to better represent the speed and simplicity of the modern browser and operating system.' In a statement, here's how Google describes its motives: 'Chrome has improved significantly since it was first released in 2008.

That's why the ability to reskin Chrome and Firefox were deemed important features even if they don't do much for loading Web pages faster or enabling new Web applications. It's just a cosmetic change, of course, but people often care about such skin-deep matters. 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. Google gave its browser a new logo yesterday, a design that drops the bubbly 3D look for a flatter, more geometric look.

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