How to enable night mode in the browser

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Tips for those who prefer to work at night.

Reading text on a bright screen in a poorly lit room is not very convenient, but it can be fixed, whatever browser you are using. We will tell you how this can be done.

Firefox

To make the background and menu dark in Firefox, you need to activate a special theme. Open "Menu" → "Add-ons" → "Themes" and select "Dark theme". Now the browser will become much more convenient to use in the evening and at night.

However, it is not very convenient to open the settings every time to change the theme. But you can automate switching with the Automatic Dark extension. To do this, you just need to set a period when Firefox should switch to dark design.

However, the browser theme does not change the color of the website content. In order to adapt it, you also need to install a third-party extension. For example, Dark Reader or Dark Mode. They both have different styles and settings, so you can tailor them to your preferences. You can switch between day and night modes by simply clicking on the extension icon in the browser bar.

Well, if you don't want to install any extensions, you can use Firefox's built-in night reading mode. Click on the "Enable Reading View" button in the address bar of the browser, and then select the text display style - "Dark".

Chrome

Chrome, unlike Firefox, doesn't have a built-in dark theme. But you can easily install a third-party one from the Chrome Web Store. Here is a list of the best dark themes recommended by the Chrome Web Store. As an example, we used Material Simple Dark Gray as the simplest and most minimalistic.

If you need to revert the daytime theme, open Menu → Settings, scroll to the Appearance section and click Reset. Unfortunately, there is no way to quickly switch between light and dark themes in Chrome.

One of these extensions, available in both Chrome and Firefox, will help you to change the color of the content of web pages.

Opera

The Opera browser has a built-in dark theme. Open "Easy Setup" on the express panel. In the "Themes" section, click "Dark".

You can change the color of the content of pages in the browser using the Dark Mode extension.

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Safari

Safari shares a common theme with macOS. In macOS Mojave, it is now possible to set the entire system to "Night Mode".

But, as in other browsers, when you activate the dark theme, the color of the content of the sites will remain unchanged. To make the pages readable in the dark, install the Turn Off the Lights extension. It not only makes watching YouTube more comfortable, but also has a night mode that can be activated in the settings. Find the "Night mode" section and activate the "Show the night mode switch under the web page" option to darken or lighten the pages. It is possible to configure this function so that it turns on automatically at a specified time of day. True, some sites in the Turn Off the Lights night mode are displayed incorrectly.

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Another solution is to use the paid extension Dark Reader for Safari from the AppStore. It costs $ 4.99.

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Edge

Edge has a built-in dark theme that can be activated via the sidebar. Open Menu → Options and select a dark theme.

The same Turn Off the Lights can change the content of the pages (it works a little better in Edge than in Safari). But first, you need to configure the extension to display a dedicated radio button in the lower left corner of the screen. To do this, open its settings, go to the "Night mode" section and enable the "Show night mode switch under the web page" option.

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