Reviews for Dark Reader
Dark Reader by Dark Reader Ltd
Review by Satish P
Rated 3 out of 5
by Satish P, 8 years agoThis add-on is really great for people like me who prefer to use dark mode/themes all over. My OS is also always on High Contrast with White text on Black backgrounds. Firefox's Colors doesn't help much because most websites are simply useless when viewed with overridden dark colors and High Contrast. So I thank the developer for really good and useful work!
However there seem to be issues with some sites (bugzilla.mozilla.org is completely dark with nothing visible; GitHub fares a little better but still unusable). Performance is also a big hindrance - page loads and scrolling are completely off with this extension enabled. I presume the Chrome version may not have these issues but I prefer Firefox and would like to see this extension working well with it.
However there seem to be issues with some sites (bugzilla.mozilla.org is completely dark with nothing visible; GitHub fares a little better but still unusable). Performance is also a big hindrance - page loads and scrolling are completely off with this extension enabled. I presume the Chrome version may not have these issues but I prefer Firefox and would like to see this extension working well with it.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoJust published Dynamic Theme mode, which should have no blank screen and performance bugs. If some website is displayed wrong, you can send a link to darkreaderapp@gmail.com
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- Rated 5 out of 5by DemonKingOdio, 9 days agoEasily one of the best extensions, but (the admittedly optional) 10$ license payment still feels steep. Thankfully, the only thing tied to it is cloud syncs of sites you've disabled the extension on
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14009137, 9 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Siz, 10 days agoYeah this is a complete bait and switch scam. It comes off as a "free extension" but when you download it they straight up are like "give me money or we'll lock the extension and also cause physical damage to your computer with a "memory leak" issue." Most of the "5 star reviews" are obvious AI bot reviews too, so don't let that fool you either. I mean sure the saying its "FOSS" but requiring payment is one thing and yeah you should just say "we require payment" on the ad. Purposely wording things in a way that beats around the bush is scummy, but a lot of these extensions and apps do this and it's expected at this point unfortunately.
Having "memory leak issues" due to faulty programming which causes physical damage to someone's computer, and to also require payment at the same time makes me feel sorry for the unfortunate people that are less computer literate that actually paid these hacks $10 and are wondering why their CPU and Memory are running at max load constantly. Use that $10 or whatever the exchange rate for your country is and go to the local corner-store and get a cheap pair of sunglasses if you need dark mode this badly. It's safer for your computer, phone, and wallet. We're in a memory shortage crisis as is and these jerks are going to cause you to be paying more than $10 for their badly programmed "gimmick" down the line. - Rated 5 out of 5by Tony, 11 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by me.myself.and.I, 12 days agothis extension causes huge memory leak in FireFox, just imagine Google search page takes about 4Gb, as well as YouTube page loads 4Gb of something filling in RAM.
after removal DarkReader from FireFox - situation with memory leak came back to normal.
do not install this extension if your still want to use FireFox. - Rated 1 out of 5by July, 13 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Neoncode, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by owhnt, 14 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Matt H, 15 days agoWill never use an extension that asks a user to pay money. Sorry.
- Rated 3 out of 5by pulsar14, 16 days agoMany sites require a different filter (dynamic, filter, filter+, static) when forced in dark mode to be readable. Why don't save the filter setting in addition to the dark mode option for each configured site?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jeremiah Perez, 17 days agoExcellent work by the developers. This has been part of my setup for a while now and it never lets me down.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Joe, 17 days agoGreat but only three stars because it breaks the FireFox start screen. White text on a white background is not readable
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20001296, 17 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by henry700, 20 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by VS06, 21 days agoTypeError: varDeclarations.get(...) is undefined index.js:5819:63