Review by Tomi Antenna
Rated 2 out of 5
by Tomi Antenna, 3 years agoIn my book, this is the best darkmode addon in the whole Firefox repository.
Unfortunately it suffers from a massive, deal-breaking flaw: lacking a way to quickly cycle through themes.
Most of the time Dark Mode works great, but often enough the theme renders a website or some element/s of it poorly.
This should be a simple fix because Dark Mode has a variety of internal themes and customizations to offer. However, in order to do that one has to right-click the menu bar button, click "manage", then go into the Dark Mode settings menu, and from there select "preferences", in order to access the customization screen.
It's too many steps already to get there because this is a frequent state of affairs, but that's not all. To find a working theme you have to select a new one, then switch back to the broken page to see what it looks like, sometimes requiring the page to be reloaded, and quite often the new theme is broken too, so you have to go back and select a new one, and so on, back and forth, until you find one that works. The Dark Reader addon, for comparison, changes themes instantly, and directly from the page you're trying to alter.
But even then that's not the end, because Dark Mode runs on a single global theme setting. It doesn't save theme preferences on a per-site basis (again, unlike Dark Reader), so once you've chosen a new theme that you like and that works, odds are that instead you now broke a bunch of other pages.
This makes it completely unusable to me. And it's a great shame, because there is a simple fix- providing a keyboard shortcut to cycle through themes directly from the page (one last time- like Dark Reader does).
If these issues were remedied I would probably swap to Dark Mode permanently.
Just my two stars.
Unfortunately it suffers from a massive, deal-breaking flaw: lacking a way to quickly cycle through themes.
Most of the time Dark Mode works great, but often enough the theme renders a website or some element/s of it poorly.
This should be a simple fix because Dark Mode has a variety of internal themes and customizations to offer. However, in order to do that one has to right-click the menu bar button, click "manage", then go into the Dark Mode settings menu, and from there select "preferences", in order to access the customization screen.
It's too many steps already to get there because this is a frequent state of affairs, but that's not all. To find a working theme you have to select a new one, then switch back to the broken page to see what it looks like, sometimes requiring the page to be reloaded, and quite often the new theme is broken too, so you have to go back and select a new one, and so on, back and forth, until you find one that works. The Dark Reader addon, for comparison, changes themes instantly, and directly from the page you're trying to alter.
But even then that's not the end, because Dark Mode runs on a single global theme setting. It doesn't save theme preferences on a per-site basis (again, unlike Dark Reader), so once you've chosen a new theme that you like and that works, odds are that instead you now broke a bunch of other pages.
This makes it completely unusable to me. And it's a great shame, because there is a simple fix- providing a keyboard shortcut to cycle through themes directly from the page (one last time- like Dark Reader does).
If these issues were remedied I would probably swap to Dark Mode permanently.
Just my two stars.
192 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Battzock, 2 months agoDarkmode is for my Eyes better, but that are some points tooo dark. i wish a dark-gray option.
- Rated 1 out of 5by SomaVersTop, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18813658, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18809457, 3 months agoGreat tool. Works on a lot of websites. Cannot understand why this hasn't a better score. Yes, it does not work on any website, but it should work for the majority and is a big help for me.
Absolutely recommendable. - Rated 1 out of 5by AM, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13577405, 3 months agoconflict with webpage "24h.pchome.com.tw"
(webpage no output, refresh page not work.) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12313864, 3 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by BrickBat321, 4 months agoit is kind of working, but I see nothing, just gray screen on the page and no text anymore, when cliking on something to write and so, that's why so low rating
- Rated 4 out of 5by SK, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nick, 5 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Dander Fire, 5 months agoIt uses the negative effect to act as a dark mode. Not as painful to the eye, but it doesn't look good.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18716564, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Error504, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Th4t, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Username11-1364610131.94, 5 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by P., 6 months agoGreat: Many Settings Options
Needs to be prioritized at Implementing:
1. Quick Settings available at clicking the icon or with shortcut
2. Different methods of applying darkmode for performance reasons of different kinds of websites like:
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-background-light-text/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
does have - Rated 5 out of 5by uzaylul, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17448388, 7 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by sappyduck, 7 months ago