Reviews for UltimaDark - The Fastest Dark Mode Extension
UltimaDark - The Fastest Dark Mode Extension by ThomazPom
16 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19638943, 8 days agoUpdate:
It now seems to have magically resolved itself, very weird, as the browser hasn't restarted, only removed the plugin and installed it again. Thanks for the response, if I ever run into the issue again, i will open an issue.
Keep up the great work
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Currently unusable for me, as it makes youtube load forever, which slows my browser down significantly. Even putting youtube in the exclude list didn't fix this, just like using the disable option in the plugin. only way to get youtube to work again is by removing this plugin from my browserDeveloper response
posted 8 days agoThanks for the report. 1-star review for UltimaDark is quite harsh given the significant amount of work that has gone into this project !
This behavior is not reproducible on my side, and YouTube works normally for other users, including with UltimaDark enabled. Excluding YouTube or disabling the extension should prevent any impact, so this points to a setup-specific issue, most likely a conflict with another browser extension or a particular browser configuration.
----> https://github.com/ThomazPom/Moz-Ext-UltimaDark/issues
To investigate this properly, please open an issue and include:
Browser name and version
Other installed extensions
Any relevant console errors
I’ll take a look and see what’s going on. Without those details, I don’t have enough information to diagnose the problem.
Removing the extension is of course a valid workaround for now, but if you want this fixed, an issue report is the right place to continue. - Rated 4 out of 5by Cyberdyne, 8 days agoOverall, UltimaDark has replaced the venerable Dark Reader extension for myself. Mostly, down it's speed, and other built in settings to speed it up further. Firefox already isn't the most speedy browser on Android, so anything to keep speed up is a good thing to consider.
That said, it's not all roses. I've had websites not properly set text to a lighter color to keep it legible. It's rather rare, but not so rare — you'll eventually encounter it. It's easy enough to add per site exceptions, but an easy way to set per site color fixes would be a good addition. It is obvious when you should blame the extension, so I haven't been left scratching my head as to why I can't read something at least.
A bug that's easy to reproduce is. Keep tabs alive between Firefox sessions, open a website you need UltimaDark for, close Firefox, then when you reopen Firefox that website will not have UltimaDark applied at all until it's refreshed.
These are minor complaints though, and it's at least worth trying and probably replacing your current dark mode website extension with this.Developer response
posted 8 days agoThank you for the detailed and well-balanced review — I really appreciate the time you took to explain both what works well and what doesn’t. A 4-star review with concrete feedback is genuinely helpful.
Regarding text contrast issues: I personally haven’t encountered many cases, but that’s clearly influenced by the set of sites I visit. Other users have reported similar situations, so it’s a valid point. Per-site color adjustments have already been requested in a GitHub issue; it’s something I’m looking at, though it’s non-trivial to implement cleanly without adding complexity or performance cost.
The Firefox session restore behavior you describe is also useful to know. If you haven’t already, feel free to open a GitHub issue with a few details — that’s exactly the kind of reproducible case that can be debugged and fixed.
UltimaDark is actively maintained, and feedback like this helps steer improvements in a practical direction. You’re very welcome to continue the discussion on GitHub. - Rated 4 out of 5by Terry, 7 months agoUD's way more lightweight than the bigger extensions; thank you so much Thomaz!
One issue I've been running into is Twitch streams being covered by the extension. I've tried changing the "precision" value (tried 1, tried 10) and it hasn't seemed to make a difference. Hope you can provide some help with that, but great work otherwise!!
Edit: I see that this issue's been brought up on github back in February. Hopefully progress on that's still going well! - Rated 4 out of 5by Craig, 7 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Nokami, 7 months agoOnly using for a few days now, but the performance difference compared to the absurd Night Reader is instantly noticable. It's certainly not perfect yet but after changing to this it's difficult to go back.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18943576, 8 months agoIt hasn't actually worked yet. It doesn't change anything about the pages on this website, for example, or YouTube. Something may be blocking it, but I enabled permissions when asked by Firefox. I don't think it's uBlock, because it behaves the same way when that's disabled. Please advise! Or help
Developer response
posted 8 months agoThis website is protected to avoid extensions from rating themselves.
Not a single extension will be enabled when navigating here - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18805902, a year agoIs it possible to set dark mode to automatic based on the ligh/dark theme on my phone? I cant find it..
- Rated 4 out of 5by Cooper, a year agoI thought I would never use dark mode on browsers due to their performance hit. Then I found this.
- Rated 4 out of 5by shadows552, a year agoFast performance and pretty universal darkening. However, some elements may be incorrectly darkened or look funky (for example, one note writing on web). Also, excluding websites doesn't seem to work (or at least work consistently).
Developer response
posted a year agoThank you for your report ! One year of updates since your review might be worth a retry
The extension is still experimental and constantly evolving. To report bugs, share ideas, or track progress, the project’s GitHub page is available. Anyone who wants to be part of the growing community around this project is warmly welcome. Thank you for your patience and support! - Rated 4 out of 5by ykjoy, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by jojojo, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by gsak3l, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by ktpttd, 2 years agoTruely fastest dark mode!. But I give 4 stars because dark mode is sometime not applied in case: back to previous page, some websites
Developer response
posted a year agoThis specific issue has been fixed ! One year of updates since your review might be worth a retry - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13574693, 2 years agoif it handles accented letters and vharacters it'll get thwe 5 star! well done mate. Would be the best if those are okay. :) keep up!
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThis is a very rare bug occuring on less than 1% of visited websites. I'm currently tracking it down and refreshing the webpage is enough to fix it. Please keep in mind how much UltimaDark is experimental - Rated 4 out of 5by ForeFix, 5 years agoIt seems to work well, with good performance overall, but it indeed breaks some websites. That why it needs a exceptions list feature (if possible with smart segments of url, like: whitelisting .example.com' , 'example.com/subcategorypages' or "subdomainonly.example.com' ), and maybe for later, alternative methods to darken the pages (simple inverse filter, CSS) if the main one doesn't work as expected.
Also, it'd be cool to let the browser highlight with a different color visited links.
Encouragement to the dev!Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi ForeFIx, i added the exceptions list feature, you may want to check the latest version :) It now features a very modern UI