Dark Reader is a popular browser extension that enables a dark mode for websites. The extension itself simply changes the background and text color to better match the dark theme. By default, Dark Reader works well on almost all websites. But if you feel that the dark mode is unreadable (or doesn’t look good), you can further adjust the colors, contrast, brightness and grayscale.
And also such an extension can be enabled on individual sites and disabled on all others. In addition, there is an option to create a whitelist and blacklist of sites. This is an open-source project that values the privacy of users. You can read more and test the extension on its GitHub page.
The Dark Reader extension makes the web pages dark, so that the ‘whites’ on the pages don’t hurt your eyes when you look at them at night. Well, I recognize that the dark theme is becoming a ritual today. Similarly, people just give preference to darker pages on these screens practically nothing, whether it is Windows, mobile add-ons or web pages. Dark theme has become fashionable these days.
Dark Reader is open source and was previously available only for Chrome. Now Firefox users can also install it. The extension works by changing the color scheme of the website you are visiting, by requesting it to change the dark ‘white space’.
After installing the extension, an icon appears on the browser toolbar that allows you to interact with the extension. This way you can quickly activate or deactivate the dark theme on any website. It also has a handy shortcut, Ctrl + Shift + A to add sites to the whitelist; websites that you want to automatically have ‘dark’ when you visit them.
Please keep in mind that this is the first time the extension has been ported to Firefox and the developer may have some learning curve issue. So forgive me a bit if it doesn’t work as great as it usually does in Chrome. Heck, my experience with Speed Dial 2 on Firefox was a disappointment from what I was used to in Chrome, but developers do knock out the hurdles over time.
