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Google Chrome is nice and all, but it looks out of place in windows 8.1/10. Opera looked more at home, but didn't have the same HTML5 compatibility (on youtube) as chrome. Are there any browsers that have the same support, speed and similar extensions (or can use chrome extensions) for windows 8.1 that look like they belong with the very flat look?

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why dont you just make your own chrome skin?

firefox is the only thing close to as good as chrome...

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No idea how and i'm not sure i could get the result i want.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/my-chrome-theme/oehpjpccmlcalbenfhnacjeocbjdonic?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon

 

or you can browse the thousands of themes to find one that you like...

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why dont you just make your own chrome skin?

firefox is the only thing close to as good as chrome...

http://www.themebeta.com/chrome-theme-creator-online.html

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These are really easy ways to make a chrome theme, but the issue with chrome is that they don't look flat. For as terrible as IE is, at least it looks nice and minimalistic. Opera handles this look with the speed and safety of chrome, but it doesn't offer what i want for youtube compatibility.

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These are really easy ways to make a chrome theme, but the issue with chrome is that they don't look flat. For as terrible as IE is, at least it looks nice and minimalistic. Opera handles this look with the speed and safety of chrome, but it doesn't offer what i want for youtube compatibility.

hm i see what you mean...

is there a way to make ff look flat? i use it at school and it looks just as rounded as chrome

 

IE is the only other browser i sometimes use, and its flat like windows 8

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hm i see what you mean...

is there a way to make ff look flat? i use it at school and it looks just as rounded as chrome

 

IE is the only other browser i sometimes use, and its flat like windows 8

i'll check FF.

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i'll check FF.

yeah give it a shot

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yeah give it a shot

It looks very much flat, but also very curvy. I'm not sure how i feel considering Win8 is very block oriented, but i'll keep my test run going. FF was my go to before chrome, so i know it's not terrible

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There is an unofficial addon for FireFox to force HTML5 usage in YouTube, be sure to check it out.

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yeah give it a shot

Perhaps i was spoiled by how easy Opera was to set up(importing kept me signed in), but Mozilla just wasn't working out for me. I'll keep on the hunt for alternate browsers.

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Not currently its quite buggy and can only be enable through about:config.

I didn't have that issue. I was running the latest version on both Windows 8.1 and 10 Build 9926 and 60 FPS ran fine. I had other issues with it that made me switch back to chrome for now

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