Dark Theme Chrome
Analisa Hadfield
Install Dark Reader browser extension. Configure the dark theme: brightness, contrast and sepia. Enable for all websites or particular domains. Use the following official links:
- Dark Reader for Chrome
- Dark Reader for Firefox
- Dark Reader for Safari
- Dark Reader for Edge
Google Chrome has had a built-in dark theme like Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge since Chrome 74. You can even apply a dark theme to every web page you visit using third-party themes or an extension. Here's how.
Here's how to activate Chrome's new dark mode if you'd rather use dark mode in Chrome and light mode throughout the rest of Windows 10. That article also includes instructions for tweaking the color of Chrome's window title bars.
Chrome supports user-created themes, which you can download from the Chrome Web Store. To give Chrome a dark interface, all you have to do is install a dark theme. Google even provides a helpful collection of editor-selected dark themes. This will give your Chrome browser a dark mode on Windows 7, Linux, Chrome OS, and any operating systems without a native dark theme available.
We recommend Morpheon Dark, which is the most popular dark theme in the Store. Unlike some other dark themes, it provides a decent amount of contrast between your active tab, which is a bit lighter, and your inactive tabs, which are darker.
A theme changes your browser's interface, but most websites use white backgrounds. Sure, you can enable dark mode in Gmail and some other websites individually, but that only works for one website at a time.
To get a dark mode for the entire web, install the Dark Reader extension from the Chrome Web Store. Some other browser extensions work similarly, but we like Dark Reader most out of all the dark mode extensions we've tried.
This extension automatically applies a dark style to every web page you visit, and you can click the Dark Reader button on your toolbar to adjust it. You can also disable dark mode for a website from here. The extension even lets you set sites to never open in dark mode, which is useful if Dark Reader doesn't work well with a website.
Unfortunately, Chrome's Settings pages will always be light unless you enable your system's dark theme. Extensions can't tamper with these for security reasons. Chrome's context menus are provided by the operating system, so you can't turn those dark with an extension, either.
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I'm using Fedora 36, which has default Gnome desktop environment. I have dark theme turned on in Gnome settings -> Appearance (NOT gnome tweaks). When I open firefox, it automatically detects my system dark, and when I go to google search in firefox, it properly appears as dark. I'm not even logged in.
However, when I use Google chrome, it does not properly detect system theme. It still appears white when I go to google search. Anything I have to manually do to get Google chrome working as well as firefox here?
On Fedora you can open: chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark and enable that Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents option.Then on chrome://settings/appearance ensure GTK+ option is active.Maybe it works for other distributions Gnome 42, I'm gonna appreciate your comments.
When I switch Ubuntu 20.04 to dark mode (via gnome-tweak-tool > appearance > Shell > Yaru-dark and the Appearance section of the system app) Google Chrome doesn't seem to think that my OS/System Preference is for a dark theme, as evidenced by the chrome settings section and dev tools being light-themed. My dev tools are set to use a theme based on system preference. I know the enable-force-dark experimental setting exists, but I don't want chrome to try and convert web pages to a dark theme by itself. Is there some sort of setting in dconf or elsewhere that will tell Google Chrome to render it's internal pages with a dark theme?
Hey all, I made a theme for Chrome when using Breeze Dark window decorations. I found that the ones in the Chrome Store were either broken since Google introduced rounded tabs, or they had light elements.
I am using gnome theme in my machine. I have enabled dark theme in gnome. So all the other things in chrome like search result page is in dark mode. But there are some exceptions. Some tabs like inspect tab, settings tab etc are still using the light theme, although all the other things in chrome are working just fine in dark mode. Imagine if I open the inspect tab in a google search result page, the inspect tab will open. But the page remains in dark theme, but the inspect tab remains in light theme. I have also selected 'GTK' theme in chrome.
So how can I fix this?
Dark Mode (or Dark Theme) is a user interface display setting for applications, browsers, operating systems, and even websites. Dark mode replaces the default display of dark text against a light background with light text against a dark background. Dark mode minimizes eye strain and prolongs battery life by reducing screen brightness. It is also used solely for its aesthetics.
The dark Theme on Android gives your phone a more classic look and feel. You have the opportunity to play around with this Theme to a greater extent, especially if you are using the latest Android 10.
You could also turn on the Automatic option for Dark and Light themes. Doing so means that your phone will change the Theme automatically depending on the timeframes you will have defined.
Dark mode is designed to reduce screen brightness by changing interface colors to a darker shade. This is done in order to minimize eye strain when using your device in underlit surroundings, as well as conserve battery life.
However, as opposed to Dark mode, which darkens the colors and shades of a specific app or interface design, Night mode changes the backlight color emitted by your device. It filters out the blue-white light emitted from the screen which turns your screen yellowish.
Certain websites such as YouTube that detect and apply dark theme based on system theme do not work in Zorin the same as they do in windows. I have a dark mode extension but I like to whitelist the websites that have their own dark mode and it's annoying to keep changing it back when switching from Windows to Zorin. It also does not apply dark mode to settings. I have an extension in VS Code that also applies a theme based on system theme but doesn't work in Zorin for whatever reason so maybe it's not just a Chrome issue. Any fix for this?
Snap or Flatpak installed packages do not respect system themes.
If you installed Chrome from Snap - then there is nothing you can do other than remove the snap Chrome Package and then install Chrome as a .deb or Flatpak package.