Reviews for Dark Reader
Dark Reader by Dark Reader Ltd
235 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16345916, 4 years agoI really, really want to love this extension but there are two main problems that keep me from having it installed.
1) It slows down your browser A LOT. Even on my high end gaming PC, websites load much slower and some will even hang until you disable the extension and refresh the page.
2) Sometimes the style changes don't "kick in" right away so you'll get a flash of white when you first visit a page. While this isn't a huge deal during the day, when it's night time and you've been browsing in all black for a while it feels like staring at the sun.
I continue to re-download Dark Reader every few months to give it another shot, but these problems still persist. It's a great idea, but the execution needs some work. - Rated 3 out of 5by Crusader, 4 years agoWorks sometimes good, but there are several times that I have to hack it up cuz it put Heavy Gray on Black
- Rated 3 out of 5by smohanv, 4 years agoThis add-on is very good to use with Tor Browser. I love this. Also, in some websites home page doesn't take take the dark effect but the sub pages takes the dark effect. I changed the setting from Dynamic to Static or Filter or Filter+ and it works fine.
YouTube video doesn't show instead it shows up black screen hence I have to whitelist YouTube from using this add-on. YouTube audio works. - Rated 3 out of 5by stshrewsburyDev, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16283092, 4 years agomostly works, but on jisho.org it breaks the drawing function, preventing me from seeing what i'm writing
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16268543, 4 years agomuy chevre el color negro y el efecto sepia pero no me gusta que me vuelva lento el computador
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16065233, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by rouge217, 4 years agoThis worked really well for some websites and didn't work on others. There were some issues on some websites where it worked too - for instance if you open a video on youtube it was able to convert it to dark mode, but it wasn't able to change the font color of the channel to a different color which made it practically invisible as black on black.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16232576, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Jayjay, 4 years agoThis addon is a lifesaver, but recently the dynamic theme completely broken and this addon is unusable unless I use filter or filter plus theme.
and the import settings feature is doing nothing. - Rated 3 out of 5by Dark with Green Highlights, 4 years agoThough the benefits are obvious, the one clear drawback observed is that the webpages got darken also LOAD LONGER; and even when it seems it's done, the load button still show X sign, which indicates it's still loading.
Particularly occurs in search websites and websites which already have dark theme in them.
Hence, what's supposed to be an energy-saving extension turns out doing the opposite to my PC.
This behavior appears both in both my Firefox and Chrome browsers. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14733828, 4 years agoIt works really well, however it slows down your browsing speed. I had uninstalled it a couple of weeks back but my pages still had the dark mode, which was extremely undesirable.
- Rated 3 out of 5by ........................................, 4 years agoGenerates dark themes for websites really well. Only issue is, it causes the browser to slow down horribly, especially on complicated sites, unfortunately meaning I can't use it.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Ruso89, 4 years agoGuys, the app is changing mi firefox theme. I want a different dark theme for firefox and it's changing it back to de default dark one. I can't find a way to avoid this.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Sabda, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Pete, 4 years agoI love the dark mode, but opening a desktop text file shows a white background where I type, but with white letters!!! Plus, some websites flash a white screen when opened that lasts for several seconds. Pretty frustrating.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Panical, 4 years agoFantastic, but it requires a lot of ram and processor power. All it needs is more optimization for performance
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16082032, 4 years agoI get a bright white blank screen before the page is loaded. I wish it was black! Kind of defeats the purpose of a dark reader. (Firefox Preview for Android)
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15145534, 4 years agoshould be able to manage through extensions manager or opening the extension page from it. I'd like to remove the icon from the bar, but it is THE way to manage the extension, so whenever i need to change any settings, i've got to add it back to the bar manage and remove it which is really annoying. Still, working good, hence the stars
- Rated 3 out of 5by Ajinkya Mali, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Mountain Man, 5 years agoLooks great, but it causes frequent slowdown and hesitation on web pages. I know this extension is the problem because when I disable it, the issues go away. I prefer the "Dark Background and Light Text" extension.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Sahruth Baziraoalmas'tani, 5 years ago