Built-in dark mode for web contents

[batata]

I love extensions like Dark Reader that automatically transform any website with a dark theme. The way they do this is by injecting many new styles into the DOM, it works but there is two main drawbacks to this method :
- there's a latency that makes contents blink
- it reduces performances on some websites by a lot

So It would be great if there could be a built-in low level solution (directly in web render?) that would swap colors on the fly without editing the page styles and thus would solve the two aforementioned issues.

[victorwestmann]

As soon as I noticed that we have Dark Mode in Firefox for Android I started using it 50% more of the time than previously. This is a huge plus for this version of Firefox (for Android). Chrome sucks for not having native dark mode in its app like you guys do now! Thank you for this. +1 for this. 🙂

[Jeppie]

@victorwestmannwhere is that option? I can't find anywhere to enable dark mode for websites.

[dreamher]

I would love to use Firefox as my main browser but the dark mode does not work for the pages I visit most often.  If I override with forcing a black background then it will change important features of those websites to make them not usable.  So I use Opera since their dark mode is more nuanced on how it applies the black background but in keeping with the sites theme as well.  I have not tried Dark Reader for Firefox because I have read the reviews and performance is an issue.  Why can't Mozilla develop a more nuanced dark mode? If they can develop it for their mobile app then why not for regular computers?

[Jeppie]

@dreamhermobile doesn't have dark mode for websites. Mobile users also need to use add-ons like dark reader. I don't know where you got that info from.

[victorwestmann]

You are right. I made a mistake. I guess I was so excited that I was able to install the dark reader add-on to my Firefox on Android that I forgot to mention it was not built in but a 3rd party add-on installed. Apologies for the confusion on this. Thanks!

[victorwestmann]

Hey guys. You are right! Firefox does NOT come built-in with this capability. However, I was so excited to notice that Dark Reader add-on was working on Firefox for Android that I forgot to mention this properly. Apologies for any confusion this might have caused. Thanks!

[chadd]

If this feature was implemented in the Firefox mobile app, I would switch to using Firefox as my primary browser. This is the only feature that is preventing me from making the leap. I am currently using Brave. I would like to move to Firefox (for many reasons), but I have come to rely heavily on the native dark mode feature of Chromium based browsers for my mobile reading.

[KitsuneKai]

@chadd@JeppieThis. Having to turn off restricted domains not to go blind using any of the Mozilla pages on mobile is an insane option I've given up resisting. There's absolutely no reason this should be necessary. https://support.mozilla.org/hsb/questions/1306789

[fh24f98432]

I commend Dark Mode and other add-ons devs for their huge job but these third party pieces of software are far from optimal. They don't work well with many websites, especially on android.

Browsers with automatic, seamless and effective built-in dark modes such as Opera or Brave (or even Edge), have greatly improved my life and this alone is the reason why firefox has become my second, if not third, choice after about 15 years of firefox monopoly in all computers

[Farajo001]

I'm a mobile Firefox user and I say that we should have an optimized version of it that doesn't crash the entire app when we use it?(also please optimize mobile apps so that Chrome starts sweating)

[Euphorion]

Guys, try out this add-on:

https://github.com/ThomazPom/Moz-Ext-UltimaDark

It prefetches the data before Gecko and convert to dark.

Works pretty good for me and lot better than Dark Reader.

[Foinix]

Han pasado casi 3 años desde que se creo el hijo, chromium lo tiene muy bien implementado , seria genial que firefox lo hiciera tambien , se avanzaria demaciado

It's been almost 3 years since the child was created, Chromium has it very well implemented, it would be great if Firefox did it too, it would be a lot of progress.

[batata]

I've tested speedometer with an without Dark Reader, it literally halves performances, we need a better solution.

[singhh9596]

Dark background for webpages

Can we expect dark mode for the background of webpages as well? It's surprising that even after so many years, Firefox still relies on add-ons for such a basic feature. Other browsers, like DuckDuckGo, have already implemented dark mode for webpages, making the experience much more comforting to the eyes. When can we expect Firefox to introduce this feature natively?

[sw7fxY]

thats a big difference in speed in dark mode