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Is there any way to turn off the visual effects used by Google Chrome?

For example, the tabs slide around smoothly, the scrolling is really smooth, and there is a huge arrow that fades in and out during download.

Reason why I'd like to know is primarily because I want to maximize battery life on my netbook by using less visual effects and, secondly, because I use Chrome on slower systems and would like to maximize the performance and efficiency of Chrome.

This applies mainly to Windows XP, but also Vista, 7 and even (X)Ubuntu 9.10.

EDIT1: Oh yes... disabling the attaching/detaching of tabs and turning them into translucent in the process. That's a bit stressful on my slower machines.

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+1. That's also a major issue over RDP on slower connections. – Joey Feb 21 '10 at 13:20
The scrolling in Chrome is really smooth? That's weird, it's instant for... wait... Well, no. I generally click on the arrows, or better yet, use the arrow keys and page up/down buttons to scroll the page, so it only has to redraw once. However: If your netbook has an accelerated graphics card... well, nevermind. Do netbooks even have graphics acceleration? – Nicholas Flynt Feb 21 '10 at 21:32
True, but having a small screen, I use ChiralMotion scrolling most of the time (circular motion), so I'd rather use my scrolling feature but without smooth scroll. And yes, there is graphics acceleration. – Wesley Feb 22 '10 at 2:51
@Nicholas: all netbooks have at least Intel graphics card, which provides graphical acceleration -- but only 2D one. Without it scrolling would be INCREDIBLY slow: try booting in plain VGA/VESA mode to see what I mean. – whitequark Apr 29 '10 at 9:39
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I think really the only way to do this would be to get involved with the Chromium project and modify the source.

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Or post a request on one of the Chromium Forums pr project sites. (Not everyone is a developer or programmer.) – Moshe Feb 21 '10 at 21:34
@Moshe: Exactly... I am neither. – Wesley Feb 22 '10 at 2:50
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