This is a text-only version of the following page on https://raymii.org: --- Title : Dark Reader, dark mode for any website Author : Remy van Elst Date : 15-06-2019 URL : https://raymii.org/s/blog/Dark_Reader_dark_mode_for_any_website.html Format : Markdown/HTML --- Recently I discovered a firefox extension that converts any website into a dark version. Works both on firefox for mobile and on the desktop (and all other major browsers), is open source, causes less strain on the eyes and improves battery life. Just as the earlier post on Blokada, I find this such a cool piece of software I wanted to share it with all my readers.

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### Dark Reader You can install [Dark Reader for all major browsers from here][2] ![screenshot][1] > Comparing the regular mobile sites with their dark reader versions. For a few websites I had to disable the extension which is made easy in via the extensions button in the browser. It seems my battery life improved on android, but that is so subjective I'm hesitant to state it. However, a bright white pixel uses more energy than a dark pixel, especially on an OLED screen so there is a theory there. You can view the source code [on github][3] and if you like the extension you can [donate to them via OpenCollective here][4]. You do need NodeJS to build the extension but it's documented clearly. The documentation seems to be quite comprehensive so that's always a great thing for a project. [1]: https://raymii.org/s/inc/img/darkmode.png [2]: https://darkreader.org/ [3]: https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader [4]: https://opencollective.com/darkreader --- License: All the text on this website is free as in freedom unless stated otherwise. This means you can use it in any way you want, you can copy it, change it the way you like and republish it, as long as you release the (modified) content under the same license to give others the same freedoms you've got and place my name and a link to this site with the article as source. This site uses Google Analytics for statistics and Google Adwords for advertisements. You are tracked and Google knows everything about you. Use an adblocker like ublock-origin if you don't want it. All the code on this website is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 license unless already licensed under a license which does not allows this form of licensing or if another license is stated on that page / in that software: This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . Just to be clear, the information on this website is for meant for educational purposes and you use it at your own risk. I do not take responsibility if you screw something up. Use common sense, do not 'rm -rf /' as root for example. If you have any questions then do not hesitate to contact me. See https://raymii.org/s/static/About.html for details.