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Chrome on Windows 10 To Get Dark Mode Feature Soon (hothardware.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

Last year, Google pushed 'dark mode', a feature that replaces the shiny, whitespace background on a web page with a dark color, to its Android operating system and YouTube service. The company is now working to expand the feature to Chrome's Windows 10 application. Peter Kasting, a Chrome developer, confirmed the move in response to a user's query on a Reddit thread. He said a "native dark mode support is in progress" for Chrome's desktop application. Until then, reminded Kasting, "we generally suggest people use a dark theme" for Chrome via a third-party extension.

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  1. Just look at Slashdot by CptLoRes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This page is a prime example of something in need of a dark mode.

    1. Re:Just look at Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      https://darkreader.org

    2. Re:Just look at Slashdot by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 2

      Or a UTF-8 support mode.

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    3. Re:Just look at Slashdot by datavirtue · · Score: 2

      Oh thank god. Where have you been my whole life?!

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  2. Proper UI programming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There would be no need to implement a "dark mode" if google just used whatever color scheme a user has chosen in the windows control panel.

    But no, they had to skin their own UI components over the top of the windows UI like stupid "bubbly interfaced" programs did in the 90's

    You know what i'm talking about, the stupid shit like this that was all to common back then https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/66soci/windows_media_player_skins/

    1. Re:Proper UI programming by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 2

      Windows 10 no longer allows you to switch color themes so there's really no point in Google supporting that/ The only options it provides the user with are High Contrast themes (where certain colors can be customized) and dark mode (which doesn't actually adjust system colors).

      This change was probably made since lots of programs don't respect system colors anyway. I used to try to set white text on a black background. Many apps hardcode black as a text color so this usually will break a number of apps.

  3. Remember when html was mostly color agnostic? by Fly+Swatter · · Score: 2

    And most pages were rendered in your preferred colors? I miss those days. So chrome is trying to bring that back. How innovative.

  4. Re:Stop with the stupid fads. NOT WANTED. by Stephen+Chadfield · · Score: 2

    The first GUIs I used were DECWindows on VMS and OPEN LOOK on Solaris. Both used dark text on a light background. That is what I am used too and what I still prefer. I find it hard to read light text on dark backgrounds.

    And don't get me started on the fad for low contrast affecting Linux GUI themes and trendy website designs...