{"id":1815,"date":"2022-07-31T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2022-08-18T03:27:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T10:27:11","slug":"applying-custom-windows-styles-to-firefox-chrome-and-other-chromium-browsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/2022\/07\/31\/applying-custom-windows-styles-to-firefox-chrome-and-other-chromium-browsers\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying custom Windows styles to Firefox, Chrome, and other Chromium browser’s window buttons in Windows 10 & 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Typically, browser vendors force default button styles onto the program. This can be troublesome when you use something like SecureUxTheme<\/a> to change your Windows styles, and you care about the cohesiveness. There is a hacky solution, even if the Firefox forums told me there wasn’t. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DEFAULT: <\/strong>Custom themed Notepad next to standard<\/em> browsers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For Google Chrome, Edge, Brave, and some other Chromium-based browsers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For Chromium based browsers you can simply change the shortcut target to allow launching with your custom changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Open start menu. <\/li>
  2. Search and find your browser shortcut<\/li>
  3. Right-click, and open file location<\/li>
  4. Right click > open Properties of the browser shortcut (The shortcut for Chrome in the Start Menu may be found in C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs)<\/li>
  5. Add this line --disable-windows10-custom-titlebar<\/code> to the end<\/em> of the Target <\/strong>field after a space. (For Chrome, “C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe”<\/em> becomes “C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe” –disable-windows10-custom-titlebar <\/em>)<\/li>
  6. In order for your changes to show up you may need to use Task Manager (ctrl + shift + esc<\/code>) and kill all background processes of that browser<\/li>
  7. Repeat for each browser shortcut you use.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Changing the Registry Launch settings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    This is all well and good but what if you click on a link and the browser opens automatically? Now we aren’t using the custom launch option anymore. We can edit the registry to fix this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This is the “I’m not responsible if you break your computer” warning: BE SURE TO ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP OF THE REGISTRY BEFORE PERFORMING ANY CHANGES<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Launch the Registry Editor (Win + R, regedit)<\/li>
    2. Navigate to Computer\\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\ChromeHTML\\shell\\open\\command<\/em><\/li>
    3. Change the (Default)<\/em> value from \"C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe\" --single-argument %1<\/code> to \"C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe\" --disable-windows10-custom-titlebar --single-argument %1<\/code>