Dark Reader generates dark themes for websites on the fly. Use the night mode to take care of your eyes. Adjust brightness and contrast to better fit your screen.
An amazing tool. It's incredible how smoothly it works with whole range of websites!
One feature request though - is there a possibility to darken new Chrome Tab windows before it loads? It now just blinks white before loading extensions. I have found some solutions on web, but all of them are outdated. So I wonder if this is possible through the extension.
I’ve been using this Chrome extensIon for the last year and it’s been phenomenal.
As a dev, I work late. After learning about these kinds of extensions, I tried a handful, finally landing on this bad boy. And I haven’t gone back HIGHLY recommended.
This is incredible! You can adjust any site, with specific settings for each if you like. It doesn't need to be all dark or all light; there are in-between settings which makes this incredibly useful.
This is fantastic! It seems to work perfectly on all major sites.
The grayscale option seems like it could be a great way to save battery life (but that's just anecdotal conjecture from the same iOS function) @alexanderby - Any data on how dark mode + grayscale effects performance and/or battery use?
@michaeltexeira There are lots of factors:
- It depends on the technology of your display and it's power consumption characteristics. Older LCD displays still consume energy even when showing a black screen. If you open an absolutely dark image, switch off the lights in the room and don't see the light on the screen, it means that it uses more effective back-lighting.
- If you are using Filter mode (see it under More tab), then your GPU resources are used. The larger is a web-page and more filters you use, the more energy is consumed by GPU. If you have hardware acceleration disabled, than your CPU will consume a lot of power.
- If you are using Dynamic mode, it requires some CPU resources on initial page loading or when showing some dynamic SVG chart. It depends on how much style sheets and background images should be analyzed, but usually well-written website analysis requires some hundreds of milliseconds in total. Soon we will cache the analysis results, making it even more effective.
- Static mode is the simplest and the most power-effective.
Grayscale filter just equalizes red, green and blue sub-pixels polarization angle, it has no effect on battery use. Sepia filter just polarizes a blue sub-pixel, display back-light under it still illuminates.
If you try Dark Reader in Firefox Mobile or in some mobile Chromium browser that supports extensions, you will notice (at least on my Nexus 5X) that when using a Filter mode the device becomes hot, no problem happens with other modes.
@jurgenfae This is how all the extensions work (except those that work on particular websites). Dark Reader for Firefox and Safari has passed a manual review, I'm not sure about Chrome, as far as I know they have some auto check. You can always locate installed extension's files to check what it does. The source code is available on GitHub.
This is my new favorite extension. As a "dark mode" lover, this extension is recommended for full dark mode experience. Recommend this to all my site's audience. Thank you!
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Love it. It would be awesome if we could specify a time to automatically turn it on every day.
Pros:Works as advertised. Works on most websites incredibly well.
Cons:Does not turn on automatically at night.
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Bonsai
This is incredible! You can adjust any site, with specific settings for each if you like. It doesn't need to be all dark or all light; there are in-between settings which makes this incredibly useful.
Pros:Versatile
Cons:None that I can find
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Does the best job it possibly can. 100% execution. Perfect. Etc.
Pros:Turns every website into dark version
Cons:None
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A extremely useful application with several color/mood settings
Pros:Amazing plugin, delightful implementation on default colors.
Cons:None yet...
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Pros:Its making my night time use of the internet way easier.
Cons:Can't find any, yet.
Hydrana
I was so enthusiast about this, until I saw the price.
Pros:Looks really awesome !
Cons:Price is too high !
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