How to customize Chrome's home screen with a GIF

The desktop version of Google Chrome is a browser that allows multiple layers of customization. We can add custom themes of all types and colors and even install extensions to add new features that make it easier for us to work with certain tasks. Today we are going to see a new way to customize Google Chrome that consists of add a small GIF or video to be displayed as the background on the home screen or "Homepage" of Chrome.

It is a really simple process that will not take us more than a couple of minutes and the truth is that it serves to give a renewed air to the browser that is greatly appreciated. Let's see how it works!

How to put a background GIF on the Chrome home screen

The first thing we have to do is locate a GIF that we want to put in the background on the Chrome home. For this we can make our own GIF with the mobile, search on a web page that we know previously or simply take a look at repositories such as GIPHY.

• Once you have the GIF located in the browser, right click on it and select "Save image as".
• In file type select “All the files”And change the name extension from“ gif ”to“ png ”.

• Now open a new browser tab. In the lower right margin, click on the button "Personalize”.

• In section "Background image"Click on"Upload from device”.

• Finally, add the GIF you just downloaded in PNG format.

Ready! Although the file that we have just added is a GIF and not an image as Google asks us, the truth is that having changed the Chrome extension, it accepts it without problems. From here on, it's just a matter of trying various GIFs and finding the customization point that we like the most. The possibilities are almost endless!

If at any time we want to go back or change the GIF on the home page, we just have to repeat this same process that we have just mentioned, opening a new tab and clicking on the "Customize" button that appears in the lower right margin of the page. screen. Easy and with a potential of the most interesting.