Chromium.

HackerBlue for Chromium colors the browser itself: the window frame and tab strip, the active tab, the toolbar and its icons, the bookmarks bar, the address bar and the new tab page. It sets colors only, so your pages, extensions, fonts and settings are never touched, and web pages keep drawing themselves.

Chrome, Brave and Chromium all load the identical theme format, so this is the same theme as HackerBlue for Chrome — not a separate design, not a fork, the same file. It is added the way Chromium loads a theme of your own: as an unpacked theme you load once from a folder. You do that once; Chromium remembers the folder from then on. It was checked against Chromium 151 on Linux.

• Purchase One-time

  One payment for HackerBlue for Chromium. There is no subscription and nothing renews.

• Updates Included

  Updates Hacker Blue publishes for this theme come with the licence at no extra charge — a version change never asks you to pay again.

• Devices 3 active

  The licence covers up to three personal devices active at the same time, and you can deactivate one from your account page.

• Delivery HackerBlue CLI

  The CLI downloads and installs the theme on an authorised device.

The purchase runs on Whop, and Whop shows the price, currency and taxes before you pay. Buying ties the licence to a Hacker Blue account, which you use with Google or an email address and a password.

Buy HackerBlue for Chromium → Or get HackerBlue Complete

HackerBlue Complete is the other one-time product: it includes the Chromium theme today and the themes added to Complete later, under the same kind of licence. Pricing compares the two.

Installing needs a licensed account and an authorised device. The CLI downloads the release, verifies its checksum and unpacks it into a folder of its own.

1. hackerblue login — authorises this computer through your browser. You approve the device while signed in to your Hacker Blue account.
2. hackerblue install chromium — unpacks the theme into hackerblue/chromium/Hacker Blue in your data folder (~/.local/share on Linux; or the folder --vault PATH names) and prints the full path. It touches nothing in Chromium itself.
3. In Chromium open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode (top right), click Load unpacked and choose the folder the CLI printed. Paste the path into the file dialog if it is hidden. Chromium switches to the theme at once and keeps it across restarts.
4. hackerblue update chromium — installs a newer published release under the same licence, with no second purchase. Then click the reload button on the Hacker Blue card in chrome://extensions; restarting Chromium alone does not refresh it.

To go back to Chromium's own look, remove Hacker Blue in chrome://extensions. A folder of yours with the same name is never overwritten. hackerblue status chromium reports what is installed here, the latest published version and the update state.

Each release has its own version. Versions follow semantic versioning:

• Major — the look changes noticeably.
• Minor — support for new parts of the app.
• Patch — fixes.

The newest release is first.

1. 1.0.028 September 2026

   First release.