Chrome now has a built-in dark reader.

[Ashleyyyy]

Chrome now has a built-in dark reader, at least in the Canary and Dev versions. you can enable it in the flags. 

 

The flag to edit is: #enable-force-dark

I've found that just setting it to enabled works the best, but you can experiment with different settings. 

 

This is what the google search engine looks like with it enabled:

 

I've experienced noticably faster browsing compared to chrome with the Dark Reader extention installed, and it seems to work better on some sites. however it has some problems on others, and unlike Dark Reader you can't just turn it off. doing that requires going into the flags, disabling it and restarting Chrome, however i think that when this is out of beta there will be an easy toggle for it somewhere. 

 

The flag works on all platforms as far as i know, even mobile!

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i didn't quote a newssource because well, all the information came from me. the articles that are out there explain exactly the same thing, and are already out of date. they mention needing Chrome Canary which is way more unstable than dev, while it works fine on the Dev version. 

 

but, if you want an article, here is one i found. do note that you don't need Canary though. https://beebom.com/how-to-force-dark-mode-webpages-chrome/

[soldier_ph]

Dark Mode on Chrome ! Finally !

[Oshino Shinobu]

Cool that it's built in, but it seems to crash when I move the window from monitor to monitor. It also seems to struggle with quite a few sites. 

 

Definitely faster when visiting a site for the first time compared to Dark Reader, but the quick toggle and ability to enable per site wins me over to Dark Reader still (and the fact that it's not crashing when doing basic things)

[Ashleyyyy]

3 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Cool that it's built in, but it seems to crash when I move the window from monitor to monitor

I don’t have that issue. 

[Mihle]

I prefer dak grey to black when it comes to dark modes, for example dark node on this forum is good.

[Ashleyyyy]

35 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Its been there all the time... and in all Chromium based browsers as well

 

URL go to: chrome://flags/

Search for "dark"

And set both results to Enabled

 

While you're at that, also search for "async" and "quic" and disable all results

I just installed the normal release of chrome, and it’s not there. 

[Doobeedoo]

Good everyone making dark mode native and realising it's very useful. 

[LAwLz]

1 hour ago, huilun02 said:

While you're at that, also search for "async" and "quic" and disable all results

Tips to everyone reading this.

1) Don't randomly change flags you don't understand what they do just because someone on the Internet told you to.

2) Don't disable QUIC.

[LAwLz]

7 hours ago, huilun02 said:

Why disable quic protocol in short, quic can get in the way of firewall network monitoring/blocks.

1) that website, like I explained in another thread, is about enterprise networks where the company wants to monitor which sites employees browse. So they hijack the secure connection and decrypts it mid-transport. That is not something that happens in home networks.

2) generally you don't want other devices decrypting your internet traffic because it opens up privacy holes. Personally I think it's good that a company can't see what I am browsing. 

3) this is only an issue if the firewall itself isn't able to handle quic. Since quic is now the HTTP3 standard, manufacturers better start working on support for it because it will be everywhere soon. 

4) disabling quic makes loading websites slower when browsing sites that support it. 

 

A home user has no reasons for disabling it. If you disable it your connection will become slower and it might compromise the integrity of the connection by making you more susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. 

Disabling quic is a bad idea for home users. 

And like I told you in the other thread, enterprise users should just block quic in the firewall. It will force the browser to downgrade to HTTP2 without the client having to disable quic. 

[RainingTacco]

If i sit in the dark room, such mode would be beneficial right? 

[Retro_R]

I hope that they can add this into regular google and other google services, because I don't really want to use chrome. I like Firefox.

[CTR640]

What about Firefox? I don't want big brother watching my dirty browsing and search history and crunching all of my salty RAM.

[williamcll]

I honestly prefer a full black rather than a dark grey but high contrast mode looks awful.

[Ashleyyyy]

9 hours ago, CTR640 said:

What about Firefox? I don't want big brother watching my dirty browsing and search history and crunching all of my salty RAM.

Firefox is a long way behind dark mode features compared to chrome. firefox doesn't even have dark mode settings. 

[duncannah]

59 minutes ago, Twilight said:

Firefox is a long way behind dark mode features compared to chrome. firefox doesn't even have dark mode settings. 

You could say the same about plenty of other things as well

 

Just enabled it, seems alright but there definitely needs a way to control it per site. There's a few oddities around (even on Google's own services) but it doesn't look that bad. Hope it makes use of CSS "prefers-color-scheme" as well 

[Ashleyyyy]

19 minutes ago, duncannah said:

Just enabled it, seems alright but there definitely needs a way to control it per site. 

it's in Beta for a reason.

[Ashleyyyy]

11 hours ago, Fooshi said:

That looks horrible, imo. I like my dark modes, but a simple "invert colours of background and text" feature isn't what I want. That's why I use Stylus instead. It does require manually clicking and installing themes on a per site basis, but usually they look much better. Plus it gives you freedom to choose more custom CSS styles as well beyond flipping colours.

yeah, it doesn't look as good as other methods. but the thing here is speed. it really makes a noticable difference for me using this dark mode rather than extensions. if you have a modern quadcore system then it will likely make less of a difference, but if you have relatively low end machines like me it makes a difference for sure. 

[corsairian]

Now do this on Android.

[Ashleyyyy]

21 minutes ago, corsairian said:

Now do this on Android.

you can afaik. it's the same flag on mobile. 

[BuckGup]

Ew chrome. DDG has had dark theme since the beginning of mankind.