Reviews for automaticDark - Time-Based Theme Changer
automaticDark - Time-Based Theme Changer by simonkhzhang
146 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by lily, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by cgphil, 2 years agoEDIT: With the release of 1.4.1, I can now wholeheartedly recommend this extension!
Original review below:
This extension fixes the biggest issue with the current Firefox theme settings. When "Automatic" is selected, Firefox doesn't seem to provide an option to select which theme to use for the light and dark modes, instead using the default themes for "Automatic." Thankfully, this extension lets you change that by selecting a "Daytime" and "Nighttime" theme. Combine this with Dark Reader and Firefox becomes very satisfying to use.
So why the two stars?
According to the description, the "Change themes based on the system theme" setting has been broken since Firefox 100. Understandable, I will just wait for a fix. However, we are currently on version 106. Version 100 was released at the beginning of May. Additionally, the Github page for this project shows very little activity for this issue, with the most recent comment having been posted 10 days ago, but the comment prior to that having been posted on July 17. The setting also seems to routinely break, as there are other issues opened for the same problem going back to 2020.
I frequently change the system theme manually when the weather is overcast (or just straight up bad), so I would like for this setting to work. However, to leave the setting in while it is knowingly broken is not a great decision, and I cannot recommend this extension to others while broken settings remain.Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for the review and feedback. That was a difficult problem to solve but should now be fixed in version 1.4.1. - Rated 5 out of 5by Claudiu, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14023062, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nik, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 三叁隼, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17502567, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Abigail J., 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Darek, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13782624, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13797189, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by julikin, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14130624, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jorgegarciar, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cezar, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17296166, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12563709, 3 years agoDoes exactly what it says! Question for the developer: would it be possible in a future update to include a toolbar button that could be clicked to toggle back and forth between the two set themes? On very dark winter days, even though sunset is still several hours away, my office gets so dark that I find that I need to activate the dark theme early. A one-click solution for that scenario would be highly appreciated! Either way, thank you for this wonderful extension.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoThat's a great idea! I've created a issue on Github for myself to keep track of here: https://github.com/skhzhang/time-based-themes/issues/24
I'll consider it for a future release, thanks for the suggestion! - Rated 5 out of 5by Rosa, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ilya, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lyubomir, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17199956, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Davide, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nashcat1, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by fred powell, 3 years ago