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What is the best dark mode extension? (lemy.lol)
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In terms of the most balanced in speed, consistency in page rendering and good default settings, is there a clear winner?

Personally I've been using both Dark Reader and Midnight Lizard on different devices and I can't say I noticed much of a difference in terms of performance, what I did notice is that Dark Reader seems to have better defaults, but many complain that it slows down page loading a ton, I haven't heard the same about Midnight Lizard, but maybe that is by virtue that it has way way fewer installations and therefore fewer people talking about it.
Do you know if I've missed one and there is a totally different extension that does even better than both?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is it possible to go dark without extensions? I switched from Chrome to FF in Android because they got rid of that native feature... but I feel Dark Reader slows down my navigation.

[–] pm_me_your_titties 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Try Samsung Browser. It has a fantastic built in dark mode. I use it even on my non Samsung devices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it is based in Chrome and used the flags to achieve it I think newer versions won't ship it... unless they have their own method... (I think Cromite or Vivaldi has it), does Samsung browser have a desktop client? That would be a must to me too.

[–] pm_me_your_titties 2 points 1 year ago

It is based on Chromium, but its dark mode is different. And better.

No desktop client though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

On mobile I don't think there's any other way, on desktop you can use the crude background/foreground color changer in the settings. I think only Chromium implemented an embedded dark mode as of today

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kratoz29
Is your Android phone on dark mode ? If so, Firefox will be on dark mode too.

If it's for the PDF, can't say, I don't think even Foxit Reader can transform PDF documents i'to dark mode ones on the fly (haven't tried on fact).
@QuazarOmega

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it is in dark mode, but not all webpages support it, that is why the Chrome workaround did, and these nice extensions.