Dark Reader

Dark mode for every website. Take care of your eyes, use dark theme for night and daily browsing.

Dark Reader: Dark Mode For Every Website

'Dark Reader' is a Firefox add-on designed to provide a seamless dark mode experience on any website. It creates high contrast, easy-to-read dark themes on the fly, effectively reducing eye strain. Dark Reader allows users to adjust setting like brightness, contrast, and sepia filter. It neither shows ads nor shares user data, contributing to a secure and ad-free browsing experience. This open-source extension is available for installation via its GitHub repository.

Add-on stats

Version: 4.9.96 (Last updated: 2024-11-05)
Creation date: 2017-09-19
Weekly download count: 26,790
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • alarms
  • contextMenus
  • storage
  • tabs
  • theme
  • <all_urls>
Size: 788.54K

Other platforms

Dark Reader (v4.9.96)
4.70 (12,014) 6,000,000
Dark Legends (v2.6.8)
4.40 (89,084) 3,024,704
Dark Reader (v4.9.96)
4.60 (1,225) 2,731,272
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Add-on summary

This eye-care extension enables night mode creating dark themes for websites on the fly. Dark Reader inverts bright colors making them high contrast and easy to read at night.

You can adjust brightness, contrast, sepia filter, dark mode, font settings and ignore-list.

Dark Reader doesn't show ads and doesn't send user's data anywhere. It is fully open-source https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader

Before you install disable similar extensions. Enjoy watching!

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Easy to install and instantly effective
  • Super customizable
  • Comfortable dark mode
  • Valuable tool for eye comfort
Cons
  • Crashes browser when activated
  • Causes latency on many websites
  • Requires high GPU power even when not activated
Most mentioned
  • Effective dark mode
  • Customization features
  • Browser crashing issues
  • Latency and performance problems
  • Valuable for eye comfort
User reviews
Great app, having trouble using it on Reddit with latest Firefox update


This add-on is constantly phoning home, on all browsers & engines. I saw this in my Pi-hole - even when you disable the buried sync option. I haven't looked up the payload or code but beside the tracking it also displays some news/donation adverts in front/overlaying the config options.
by sigrid, 2024-12-05
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Dark Reader requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Dark Reader has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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