Dark Reader
Dark mode for every website. Take care of your eyes, use dark theme for night and daily browsing.
What is Dark Reader?
'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
By: Dark Reader Ltd
Creation date: 2017-09-19
Weekly download count: 27,126
Firefox on Android: Yes
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- alarms
- contextMenus
- storage
- tabs
- theme
- <all_urls>
Size: 788.54K
Email: da*****@gmail.com
URLs: Website ,Privacy policy
Ranking
# 13
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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.
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Works well on many websites, often resembling native dark modes.
- Helps reduce eye strain, especially in low-light environments.
- Generally effective for users who prefer dark themes.
Cons
- Can cause browser performance issues, including crashes and slow loading times.
- Incompatibility with websites that already have their own dark modes.
- Occasional rendering problems and the need to manually disable the extension for certain sites.
Most mentioned
- Performance issues including slowness and crashing.
- Effectiveness on many websites resembling their own dark mode.
- Ability to help with eye strain during nighttime use.
Recent reviews
by PROPHET, 2024-11-21
by Per-Inge Eliasson, 2024-11-20
In principle, I really like this plugin. The dark mode is super comfortable. But, as others have reported, many websites experience a lot of latency and Firefox suddenly needs a lot of GPU power, even if the plugin is not activated for that website.
by Firefox user 17005508, 2024-11-20
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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