[exDM69]

> Google Chrome is much better than xmms because you can turn the client-side window decoration and custom colour schemes off.

How? I didn't know this was possible and tried it (after some googling). Basically I have two choices: bad and worse. The default has the tabs on top. If I enable "hide system title bar", it adds a frame with close, minimize, maximize buttons.

I use a window manager with no decorations, just 1px border around active window. I'd like to get rid of the Chromium custom ugly tab bar.

[krakensden]

I don't get it- if you have "hide system title bar" off, there's just tabs, and then your window manager takes over and draws a 1px border. Do you want chromium to enable some mode where it /never/ has tabs, and /always/ spawns new windows? Or do you just want a different theme for the tab bar?

[exDM69]

I'd like to get rid of all the remaining visible UI widgets in Chromium. That would be the address bar and the tab bar. Web page with 1 px border, no decorations or buttons, that's what I want.

I still want my tabs inside the browser (my wm doesn't have tabs for every window like ion3 or kde kwin). However, I don't want the tab bar to be visible unless I'm in the process of changing tabs with ctrl-tab. Same goes for the address bar, I'd like to see it only when I'm typing to it.

I used a browser called Luakit for a while. It's a WebKit-based browser that has a user interface that's built with Lua and has a Vim-like default setup. It worked quite well but I changed back to a conventional browser when I couldn't get a proxy set up with good ad blocking, etc (luakit has no proxy or ad blocking, it relies on you installing polipo+privoxy or another http proxy setup).

So these days I use Chromium but I would love to get that minimal UI look and feel from luakit.