Turning off Chrome's visual effects

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.

Solution 1:

I think really the only way to do this would be to get involved with the Chromium project and modify the source.

Solution 2:

There is one thing that might help some,

chrome://flags/

that will provide us internal flags used by the browser,

We can refer list and tweak with renderings plugins internal add-ins and many more,

Options like LCD text antialiasing or Overlay Scrollbars may trick some visual effects..

Note it is designed for internal use by chrome only, so use at own risk, change one by one and restart browser to take effect, so that you can change it back to normal..