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.