Google Chrome brings a little Windows 11 sparkle to Windows 10

Rounded corners are now available in the browser, even for Windows 10 users

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Google’s latest version of itsChromebrowser comes with an interesting change that lets you experience a bit of Microsoft’sWindows 11redesign in Windows 10 – namely rounded corners.

AsWindows Latestspotted, Google has just pushed out Chrome 96 which comes with an experimental flag that any user can switch on if they wish. This gives Chrome menu boxes rounded corners rather than straight edges – and also adds a subtle drop-shadow effect to the boxes – as seen withWindows 11’s interface revamp.

EvenWindows 10users can benefit from the new effects simply by turning on the flag for Chrome, which is done as follows:

Analysis: The (rounded) shape of things to come for Chrome?

While this is still a change in testing – hence it being hidden within the flags section of the browser – it’s likely that we’ll see this fully introduced for theweb browserin the not-too-distant future. Possibly with further embellishments in other parts of Google Chrome, to boot. As far as we’re concerned, this is a good thing, as we much prefer the modern rounded corner look, rather than straight edges.

Chrome 96 also ushered in a bunch of other changes, and as ever there’s a healthy dollop of security fixes (25 of them in this case). Google has also made back and forward navigation quicker with recently visited sites, using the browser cache to boost performance, so everything will feel a little snappier in this respect (following hot on the heels ofrecent optimization work for Chrome on Android).

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Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).

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