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Google Chrome Material Icons for GitHub – Make Your Repos Look INSANE Instantly!
Aug 15, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video, I'll show you a very
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useful extension for the Chrome browser.
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So if you simply search for material
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icons for GitHub, simply search for this
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extension, it's got almost 20,000
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installs. So what this does, it's
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actually if you visit github.com, if you
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visit any repo, uh basically the icons
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show something like this. So it actually
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changes all these icons into material
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icons. So it looks good. So by default
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in the browser the icons basically comes
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like this. So if you want to change the
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appearance of these icons in the
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github.com page you can definitely
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install this extension material icons
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for GitHub. So as soon as you activate
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this extension just click add extension
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and the extension will be installed
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right here. As soon as it it is
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installed the icons will be changed to
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material icons. So this is a fairly
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popular extension. So I've really found
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it. So now it is installed. If you again
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refresh this page here. So now you can
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see the icons are changed to material
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icons. So now you can see the appearance
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of these folders, these files. So it
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also shows you which file is all about.
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So this is a readme file. So it has a
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different icon. This is a JavaScript. It
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has different logo right here. This is
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your package.json. So this is for node.
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So different files have different icons.
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So you can clearly distinguish which
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file is all about. So I basically found
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out this extension to be really good.
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Here you can see that it works with all
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the languages here. C++, Java,
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JavaScript.
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You can see the folders as well. It has
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different
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icons here. So definitely install this
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extension material icons for GitHub.
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It's specifically designed for
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github.com
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website here. So now you can see you can
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clearly distinguish which file is all
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about. This is a C++ file. So it has a
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different logo. This is different
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fields.
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So it works with all the repositories
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you search on GitHub the public private
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everything. So
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so it's a very lightweight extension as
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well. So that's why it is installed by
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20,000 developers. So definitely install
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it and also check out my website
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freemediattools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools.
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