The other extension I found useful for this is Dark Mode, but it’s much more primitive. I now run Dark Reader on Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi, and most of my web browsing is going to be dark-based from now on, I guess.
I’m not sure this can be corrected, though (except by ad-blocking), since the ads are designed for a white background. But I suppose it’s just a matter of learning.Īlso, the ad handling is problematic - at least on sites where I unblock ads, like here. That being said, I still haven’t understood many of the basics : reverting to default settings, applying settings to one particular site or all sites, etc. Also, the user interface concept is very good : beautiful, fast, intuitive and powerful, without being so crammed with features as to make it a hindrance. I don’t know where the developers come from, but their main achievement lays in designing colour combinations which are, at the same time, easy to read, easy on the eyes, and beautiful. Text, especially, need to be coloured, even when it seems to be white. White text on a black background is worse than the traditional black on white. The problem, with other attempts at dark backgrounds, is that you’ve got to do it right. My eyes are beginning to hurt with all that staring at a big white LED panel, and while I used to make fun of dark background aficionados, Dark Reader really got me converted.Īs others have mentioned, it’s a dream come true. I searched whether you had written on Dark Reader, only to express my deep statisfaction at that extension, which I just found out on my own. YouTube launches new design to a worldwide audience.Windows 10 Creators Update: Blue Light mode.
Obviously, you could also install a userscript or userstyle for particular sites and use these in combination with Dark Reader. If a site needs work in particular, you can either disable it so that it won't get the dark theme treatment, or report the issue to the developer in hope that he will address the issue in future versions. The dark layer that the extension applies to sites works fine on most sites you visit. There you may also switch from "apply the dark theme to all sites" to "apply it only to sites that I have added".
The final tab, sites list, lists all sites that you added to the extension. A switch to the font menu displays options to change the font type but not other font related values such as size.