Dark Reader
Reduce eye strain in your browser with this extension that provides a dark theme for browsing.
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- reduce-eyestrain
- customize-websites
- eye-strain
- CSS / Stylesheets
- brightness-reduction
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Gusted reviewed Dark ReaderIt's becomes better over the version.- Gusted thinks this post on Dark Reader is helpfulWhile it has been one of my most used extensions, it does have it's own share of problems. ___ #### Dynamic Stylesheet Inversion What it does, is generates a more suitable dark theme for the site. Sounds good? There's few catches. - It is CPU-intensive. - There is no sort of cache, which means **EVERY** time you navigate to a new url and back, it will regenerate the style. It would extremely help to have some sort of configurable cache, especially for highly frequented URLs (time-restricted entries. If they go beyond, they are deleted and regenerated). #### Custom Browser Theme Changes the UI tone and color to a different "dark", however impacts Firefox start-up noticeably. #### Other Annoyances The extension shows itself. So. Freaking. Slow. Most times, it is more viable to just try opening it again, until it decides to respond.
- Gusted liked Dark Reader
While it has been one of my most used extensions, it does have it's own share of problems.
Dynamic Stylesheet Inversion
What it does, is generates a more suitable dark theme for the site. Sounds good? There's few catches.
Custom Browser Theme
Changes the UI tone and color to a different "dark", however impacts Firefox start-up noticeably.
Other Annoyances
The extension shows itself. So. Freaking. Slow. Most times, it is more viable to just try opening it again, until it decides to respond.
Works pretty well but sometimes I have to disable and renable the extension to get it working again. Other than that, I have no issues and use it all the time. My eyes feel better. In fact, when I have it off, I can feel the intensity of light colors on my eyes since they're so use to gentler/darker colors. Also, it's open source!
[Edited by CapR, June 16]
It's becomes better over the version.
The best extension for browsing the web in dark mode.
After a month of use, I haven't felt the need to ever turn it off. The only website I've ever thought looked ugly was Headspace.com. Sometimes on Google Sheets it slows down the use of a table, (I'm suspicious it's adding a second or two of loading time, because it takes a second until the colors change), but otherwise is pretty perfect and definitely worth an install.
While it's good, it has a very high impact on CPU (due to dynamic CSS generation, as opposed to "filter:invert(1);").
I loved it. However, there was something in the script that was causing Firefox to slow down. I kept getting an error message stating so.