Google Chrome titlebar refusing to skin even with WindowBlinds tweak found in settings.

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Title is as stated. It paints the Window's borders, and underneath it, but the titlebar of Windows 10/11 persists, even with the flag set to ensure the 10/11 titlebar was disabled.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. This is known for sometime. Any Chromium base Web browser, including Chrome, can no longer be skin since Chromium introduce new GUI engine sometime ago.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

The Only skinnable browsers remaining is Pale Moon and Firefox*.

*Edited to include Firefox as relayed to me by Hankers.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Hmm, noted. I'll just disable Chrome from being skinned until there's a fix if at some point there is.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm able to get Chrome to skin on my computer, at least somewhat. It doesn't skin the buttons but the rest of the frame is skinned. I'm using Lightstar's The Dark theme at the moment. The panel below is Chrome and the one below that is Firefox:

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting The-Reaper-Man, reply 4

I'm able to get Chrome to skin on my computer, at least somewhat. It doesn't skin the buttons but the rest of the frame is skinned. I'm using Lightstar's The Dark theme at the moment. The panel below is Chrome and the one below that is Firefox:

That is great, may I know what is your Chrome current version number?

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting basj, reply 5

That is great, may I know what is your Chrome current version number?
It's Version 132.0.6834.160 (Official Build) (64-bit).

And this is my current Windows Version:

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

This is what I get

And, looking back at your screenshot, the chrome is not actually skin. The min/max/close button is not skinned and the top frame also is not skin properly. It look almost like it is skinned, but it is actually just a black bar. The actual skin is behind that blackbar. You can check this by applying some other theme with lighter color frame.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting basj, reply 7

And, looking back at your screenshot, the chrome is not actually skin. The min/max/close button is not skinned and the top frame also is not skin properly. It look almost like it is skinned, but it is actually just a black bar. The actual skin is behind that blackbar. You can check this by applying some other theme with lighter color frame.
Ah? Thank you, basj. I knew it wasn't completing skinning Chrome, but just partially. Firefox is completely skinned though and it is my main browser.