Is there a way to find the name of the current theme in Google Chrome?

Question

I have setup theme in Chrome, but it was awhile ago, probably when Chrome got official support for themes. I can't find the way to get the name of my current theme installed. I want to use same theme on other machines, but don't know which one is it.

So, how to get name of currently installed theme in Google Chrome?

Answer 1

Open file: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences

NOTE: Path will vary from OS to OS... I am using Windows 7. Above file has no extension

Goto:

    "settings": (NOTE: it's inside "extensions" section){
    "[ExtensionOrApplicationId]":{

    }

....
}

Above section lists all the extensions installed on your machine for the current user.

Now search for section "theme". In this section values againt the sections "id":<ExtensionOrApplicationId> and pack points to the current theme. In general this section looks as below

  "theme": {
     "id": "ddgmdidminnkiajaonminefjlllglgap",
     "pack": "C:\\Users\\Administrator\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default\\Extensions\\ddgmdidminnkiajaonminefjlllglgap\\1.0_0\\Cached Theme.pak"
  }

If you will simply replace value ddgmdidminnkiajaonminefjlllglgap with some other theme id and restart Chrome then the new theme will get loaded.

Hope it helps... ;-)

Answer 2

I had i the same problem as you and found a way. An very ugly way, so if you have a lot of extensions installed this could be some work:

1. Find the folder where the chrome extensions are placed. On Windows XP this is: C:\Documents and Settings\"USER NAME"\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions

2. Here is a lot of folders with weird names. I guess they are unique identifiers for every extension. I then used an url from the new Google Chrome Web Store like this extension and changed the last part of the url with the ones from the folders. One of them was my theme and the page showed the name.

Answer 3

There is very easy way to find the name of the current chrome theme.Open folder "C:\Documents and Settings\"USER NAME"\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions". There are folders which each one represents extension you have installed.Browse them and in theme one it is another folder with name like this 1.0_0. And in this final folder is file "manifest.json". So open it with notepad and you will see the required name.