No idea about Chromium for Ubuntu but assuming that things are similar to Windows, ...

do you have a User Stylesheets folder or directory anywhere in your Chrome directory?

If yes, does it contain a file called custom.css? It's okay if there's nothing in that file.

If the answer is no, can you run Chromium with a switch "-enable-user-stylesheet"?

If you can, does that action create the directory and the file I mentioned above?

If it does, you can just copy-paste the lines that PAEz has given into the custom.css file using a text editor

::-webkit-scrollbar {
height: 12px;
width: 12px;
background: #000;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
background: #393812;
-webkit-border-radius: 1ex;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75);
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-corner {
background: #000;
}

Save the custom.css file and run Chromium with the same switch.

Let us know what happens!

Thanks for the reply vasa. And no, there isn't a folder named User Stylesheets in my directory. I checked on that before making my post. I did create a file called custom.css in my directory and put the above code in it, but it didn't work.

I'm not exactly sure how to do "-enable-user-stylesheet". So I'll have to read up on how to do that and then get back to you on it.

Thanks for the help.

Just wana check were talking about the same directory.
The User Stylesheets directory is in your User directory, for information on where to find your User directory look here....
http://www.chromium.org/user-experie...data-directory

I'm not exactly sure how to do "-enable-user-stylesheet"

-enable-user-stylesheet is whats called a command line switch, never done it in linux but heres two links that may help....
http://www.chromium.org/developers/h...ium-with-flags
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...896a5506&hl=en

@h8uthemost

A few very, very, trivial comments (& could be 100% nonsense).

Chrome stable is the most mainstream and meant for the average end-user.

Chromium is for the guys who like life very exciting and want to try out new stuff even before it's deemed problem-free.

Chrome Plus is an "enhanced" Chromium (versions unclear) and it's behaviour may or may not be mainstream. Getting help could be a problem.

Ditto for Iron.

Chrome Plus and Iron are favoured by those who think their lives will become more "private" by simply using another browser.

Coming back to your original post, I have no idea how savvy you are but if you're not a hot-shot, I'd suggest it's better to stick with a stable version of Chrome and stay away from Chromium, Chrome Plus, Iron, Comodo Dragon, etc. (I follow my own advice so you know where I stand!)

Thanks for the info guys.

Well, the reason why I was using Chromium is because I've recently switched from Ubuntu to Lubuntu(and Ubuntu derivative). And Lubuntu is all about being light and fast, and not bloated like Ubuntu. So, Chromium was the default installed browser. I know that it's the default installed because Chrome/ium is probably the lightest/fastest browser around. But I think the devs picked Chromium over Chrome because it's open source. And actually, up until a couple weeks ago, I honestly thought Chromium was the "Linux version" of Chrome. I didn't know that Chrome was available for Linux too.

To me, the whole open source thing isn't a huge deal(unless we're talking about bittorrent clients, then I want my client to be open source).

But anyways, I did just installed the latest Chrome, and there was a User Stylesheet folder in the Default directory. So I took the above code and pasted it in it, and bam, my scroll bar is now a different color. So I can now finally use a different style sheet. Which I picked a dark one, and the darkish green of the scroll bar looks pretty good with it.

So, I'm not really sure if I'm going to stick with browsing with Chrome or Chromium. I'm going to go ahead and leave them both installed for the hell of it. But I know I've read that Chromium is supposed to be faster. But right now, Chrome is flying just like Chromium ever did. So besides that whole open source thing, I really don't see a difference between the two. But, I do like how both of the menu tabs have been put into one. And, I like how Chrome has a stop function. Chromium doesn't have that. It just has reload without the ability of stop.

But, I think I'll check out the links that PAEz gave me and see if I can get this to work in Chromium. But for right now, I really don't see a reason to stick with Chromium over Chrome.

Thanks for the help guys. It's really appreciated. It's so nice to be able to use a different theme and actually be able to see the scroll bar.

If you like reading, then here's something for you:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Googl...o-140060.shtml

Based on the link, I wouldn't classify Chrome as not being open source.

Anyway, I prefer using the latest stable Chrome (which is supposed to roll out every six weeks) and leave the Chromiums, Canaries, betas, devs, and nightlies to those who know better.

And what's this about Chrome having a "stop function"? If I want to stop a file from loading, I just press esc in Windows.

Originally Posted by PAEz

Just wana check were talking about the same directory.
The User Stylesheets directory is in your User directory, for information on where to find your User directory look here....
http://www.chromium.org/user-experie...data-directory


-enable-user-stylesheet is whats called a command line switch, never done it in linux but heres two links that may help....
http://www.chromium.org/developers/h...ium-with-flags
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...896a5506&hl=en

Hi PAEz and thanks for the link on the list of switches.
It's interesting that the stylesheet switch is no longer listed! And I can run the latest stable without the switch and the stylesheet is still enabled. So looks like this feature has been baked in.

Originally Posted by vasa1

If you like reading, then here's something for you:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Googl...o-140060.shtml

Based on the link, I wouldn't classify Chrome as not being open source.

Anyway, I prefer using the latest stable Chrome (which is supposed to roll out every six weeks) and leave the Chromiums, Canaries, betas, devs, and nightlies to those who know better.

And what's this about Chrome having a "stop function"? If I want to stop a file from loading, I just press esc in Windows.

Yeah, I"m not seeing much of a difference at all between the latest stable of Chrome and Chromium. I read that pages may load slightly bit quicker in Chromium(I forget the reasoning), but I'm not really sure if I see a difference.

Thanks for the link, I'll give it a read through.

As for the stop function, you know where the reload button is on the top bar? Well, when a page is loading or reloading that reload button will turn into a stop button. This is something that is not on Chromium, which I hated. Sometimes a page would take ever to load or reload for whatever reason(eventhough it looked like the whole page was loaded correctly, but I would still get that "spinning" image on the tab), and I could never stop it from loading. Now I can in Chrome.

Maybe there was another way to stop a page in Chromium, but I couldn't find out how.

Originally Posted by h8uthemost

...
As for the stop function, you know where the reload button is on the top bar?...

I'd forgotten all about that!!!

@h8uthemost
You said you are happy with the darkish green scrollbars but I thought Id tell you how to change the colors incase you want to.
The colour values are the bits with the hash, Ive made them orange below so you can spot them.....

::-webkit-scrollbar {
height: 12px;
width: 12px;
background: #000;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
background: #393812;
-webkit-border-radius: 1ex;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75);
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-corner {
background: #000;
}

To pick a new colour you can go to....
http://www.colorpicker.com/
...pick a color and then replace the color value in the css file with the one in the input box.