Reviews for Dark Reader
Dark Reader by Alexander Shutau
113 reviews
- by Firefox user 14512213, 2 years agoRated 2 out of 5This is one of the must need Extension on my Firefox but the way it just stops working on few sites in completely unacceptable when it works quite fine on Chrome. LinkedIn, Facebook and even Instagram and Gmail doesn't work properly with this one where it doesn't make elements dark somewhere and sometime takes the entire site down with it just like Gmail.
- by Firefox user 15451856, 2 years agoRated 2 out of 5Tried Dark Reader for a couple of weeks and had to uninstall. Keep getting script errors in conflict with regular Firefox use. Otherwise I like the features and controls. Script errors just became a nuisance.
- by Firefox user 15170332, 2 years agoRated 2 out of 5Is quite good when it works, but far too often Videos or Images are also completely 'blacked out' on websites, for instance on BBC or Amazon sites, thus making those pages/sites virtually unusable - shame
- by andario2007, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5It does a pretty good job, BUT it slows down my browsing experience SO much it´s not worth having, IMO. Firefox is slow enough as it is. Thanks
- by thatonedoge, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5I love how this looks, but unfortunately, it slows down my browsing. I've had to disable it now. It is really unfortunate that this is the case, because it really does improve the look of almost every site I use. One way that it could be improved is to have a site specific on/off switch- I think having it on for certain sites makes certain things invisible, whether it is in dark or light.
- by Firefox user 13958735, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5I really liked the customizing websites to be dark or slightly dimmer with this extension, but I noticed that is was causing GPU power spike issues. My GPU utilization would spike to 100 each time I loaded a page. When loading pages without the Dark Reader extension, my GPU usage remains below 3%.
- by Firefox user 15060630, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14989693, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14792796, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14661604, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5It slows down webpages as well as the browser. I am going to uninstall it. This extension needs a lot of improvement.
- by Firefox user 14636167, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5NOW USELESS ........
unfortunately, besides the fact that it really slows down all browser pages loading as mentioned by many users ....an even WORSE issue (which the developer refuses to respond to as i have messaged him directly over the past 2 months) is the FACT that one can no longer even SEE THE Scroll-bar on any given page ...it is so faint as to be virtually invisible (i actually had to use a magnifying glass to find the scroll-bar or scroll-button on every browser page) ...rendering Dark Reader Impractical and frankly USELESS. i have now switched over to Midnight Lizard, which has much better control and NO scroll-bar issues, can see the scroll-bar & scroll buttons perfectly using Midnight Lizard. - by humpty, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5Slows down the page loading. A lot.
(about 4 or 5 times slower than other formatters). It's amazing how it is able to attract so many users. - by Username 1º287346532, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5Slows down sites to the point of being unusable. No read the manual section. Counterintuitive settings.
- by <gmfady>®, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5
- by 2-bits, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5There are a lot of little bugs. Sometimes, I have to switch the extension off and on before it loads a side. Sometimes, when I add a site to my exceptions list it renders it as "dark" anyway. A lot of major sites (such as google.com) have parts of UI become invisible with this plug-in active (at least in dark mode). Kinda neat, but not up to the Chrome version yet.
Dark Mode - an extension I've been trying in this one's stead has a much smaller feature set but works far more reliably. - by Firefox user 14580429, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5It really slowed down my browsing experience. It was so slow I had to uninstall. Looks like it works really well and has a lot of options. But this doesn't matter if it's too slow to use
- by Firefox user 12328754, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5Great idea but it makes pages slow. Needs to be addressed.
- by Firefox user 14574573, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5I want to like this add-on. I really do. I love everything else about it except it causes excessive loading times.
- by Firefox user 13319396, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5It's good on Chrome, but a disaster on Firefox. It integrates great with Facebook on Chrome, it's awful with FB on Firefox. Fix it before you release it. Cheers!
- by Firefox user 13544355, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5В Chromium и Vivaldi работает просто отлично. В Firefox пришлось снести - сильно тормозит загрузку сайтов.
- by Xavier Novella Sinde, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5Good idea and i liked it. Mobil version seem better than Laptop version.
It slows the hell out of the PC! :S - by Firefox user 14453400, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5Firefox becomes unusable as I only have 4 GB of RAM and it keeps freezing and is otherwise slow with this. Manjaro Linux OS. When disabling Firefox is normal again.
```bash
[jray@jr-dl ~]$ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: jr-dl Kernel: 4.19.2-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.2.1 Desktop: N/A Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E6410 v: 0001 serial:
Mobo: Dell model: 0HNGW4 serial: UEFI: Dell v: A16 date: 12/05/2013
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 37.2 Wh condition: 37.2/48.8 Wh (76%) model: Samsung SDI DELL PT43699 status: Full
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5 M 560 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem rev: 5 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 21290
Speed: 1197 MHz min/max: 1199/2667 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1325 2: 1200 3: 1320 4: 1442
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell Latitude E6410 driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: intel unloaded: modesetting resolution: 1440x900~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Mobile v: 2.1 Mesa 18.2.5 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Dell Latitude E6410 driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.2-1-MANJARO
Network: Device-1: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell Latitude E6410 driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: 7040
bus ID: 00:19.0
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Device-2: Broadcom Limited BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n vendor: Dell Wireless 1520 Half-size Mini PCIe Card driver: wl
v: kernel port: 7000 bus ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac:
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.20 TiB used: 67.28 GiB (5.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9320423AS size: 298.09 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Seagate model: Expansion size: 931.51 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 284.06 GiB used: 19.33 GiB (6.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.18 GiB used: 1.67 GiB (20.4%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: 43.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2901
Info: Processes: 202 Uptime: 7h 22m Memory: 3.72 GiB used: 2.22 GiB (59.9%) Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 8.2.1
Shell: bash v: 4.4.23 inxi: 3.0.27
```