Turning off Chrome's visual effects

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Published on 2010-02-21T05:58:18Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 23:03 UTC
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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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