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Dark Reader — Dark theme for every website, care for your eyes
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.
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Juan Vaamonde
Last week, I wondered if such a thing existed. Googled it. Found this. It works perfectly. Couldn't be happier.
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@javaamonde 4 years ago I googled it, but haven't found anything and created this tool :)
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 I have found some solutions on web, but all of them are outdated.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.
@mrbartboch You should install some dark theme from the Chrome Web Store, like Material Simple Dark Grey.
Oh my goodness, it's so nice! Instantly clicked when I saw the suggestion in my email inbox and I'm not disappointed. Recommending to everyone in the office!
I was so enthusiast about this, until I saw the price.
Pros:Looks really awesome !
Cons:Price is too high !
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.
Personally, I prefer the simpler Dark Mode extension: https://chrome.google.com/websto...
Awesome!
The only one cons is that some sites are still loading with white background and become dark only when page load finished. As result page might blink and radiate a lot of light during these few seconds.
@volodymyr_spodaryk There should be no such problem with latest Chrome, unfortunately sometimes happen with other browsers.
To complement that, make sure you use a Google Chrome Dark Theme. I recommend this one: https://chrome.google.com/websto...
Does the best job it possibly can. 100% execution. Perfect. Etc.
Pros:Turns every website into dark version
Cons:None
great tool!!
Pros:works out of the box
Cons:doesn't yet comes with daylight settings
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.
I've been using the Stylish extension for a while to do this with a few sites I'm on constantly, but this is a whole new level. With this and macOS Mojave, only the Slack desktop app is left.
It seems to work great so far on the few sites I've spot checked.
I wish I had more upvotes to give. Great product.
The fact that it says "Dark Reader can: Read and change all your data on the websites you visit" scares me a little bit.
@brad_helmink 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 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
I didn't even finish reading up the newletter....i just clicked, installed first and then came back to read. I love products like this.
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Pros:Its making my night time use of the internet way easier.
Cons:Can't find any, yet.