Unable to reproduce the issue on Ubuntu 14.04 for chrome version 55.0.2883.75 & 55.0.2883.87. Navigated to chrome://history which was displayed in Material design. 
Opened a new tab and navigated to chrome://flags and disabled material flag for history page. Relaunched chrome and observed that the page was displayed in regulat history page.

@ synthead: Request you to please try again by a system restart and let us know with your observations.

Thanks.!

I agree, these changes are uniformly bad and I haven't seen a single person's post who like MD. PLEASE give us the option to revert to the old look, it was perfect the way it was, and now it's hard to read and wastes lots of space, plus it runs slower and makes my computer hang for a few seconds when I try to open a youtube link. I am VERY ANGRY.

I can disable Material Storage for History Tab n such, but not the top area.. like where all the buttons and actual Tabs are.. Before this option was named.. "Material Design in the browser's top chrome" under chrome://flags .. now it isn't there.

I am running Windows 7 Pro 64bit

Hi ranjitkan,

This regression concerns the look of the tabs, etc. and not specifically the history page.

This is what I'd like to see with the chrome://flags options set: 
http://i.imgur.com/tMZnPD7.png

This is what I see instead when the appropriate flags are changed:
http://i.imgur.com/wrJc9LK.png

The option being ignored appears to be top-chrome-md.  When this is set to "Non-material", the top area remains with the material look.

Adding "Proj-MaterialDesign-WebUI" label and Untriaged it so that issue gets addressed.

Clearly the flag and command line flag (--top-chrome-md=non-material) was removed on purpose (here's one tracking bug about it: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=616894) and probably the codebase is removed next if it wasn't already (?). Writing was on the wall, obviously.

Probably no amount of whining will revert this. Maybe you devs should be just honest and instantly WontFix this. It would be less painful for us MD haters.

Any ETA on when this issue will get fixed?

Do you guys have an ETA on when this will get fixed?

Any thoughts on when this issue will be resolved?

I can't help but feel a little ignored here.  Any ideas on when this will be resolved?  Even if that answer is "no," it'd be better to have than just hear crickets.

IIUC this has to do with native UI and not with WebUI.

The non-MD code for the top chrome UI has already been deleted from the code base, which is why there is no longer an option in chrome://flags to switch back to it.