Review by Tomi Antenna
Rated 2 out of 5
by Tomi Antenna, 2 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.
184 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by BrickBat321, 14 days 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, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nick, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Dander Fire, a month 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, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Error504, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Th4t, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Username11-1364610131.94, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by P., 3 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, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17448388, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by sappyduck, 3 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Bryan, 3 months agoWhat I like: I can set my very own, very simple filter, and that is all I have ever wanted a dark mode extension to do so as to replace my having to apply the style change myself to pages that I want not so bright.
What I don't like and makes this extension a no-go for me: The developer makes getting to the extension's preferences way harder than it needs to be (I have to access it from the AOM page after getting to it in one way or another every time I want to update a setting for this extension - why? At least give us a right-click to a pop-up or the options page...); and, the exclude functionality does not work with domain names alone - subdomains must be added separately, the label for the exclude list field does not mention this, and it is really annoying on large sites or sites that offer multiple services through various subdomains (at least there is a context menu item to disable the extension on a page but only after it has already executed on the page). - Rated 4 out of 5by DaO, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by distinguishedaxolotl, 4 months agomade me unable to read most text on websites and made lots of buttons look very weird. would not reccommend.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Oleksandr, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18294034, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18555125, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DZ, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13328561, 5 months ago