Reviews for Dark Reader
Dark Reader by Dark Reader Ltd
Review by azure_orchid
Rated 4 out of 5
by azure_orchid, 7 years agoThis is my favorite dark mode add-on for Firefox (and Chrome) right now, but it still has some things to be desired, such as a time-based dark-mode, and the fact that it can't control the "theme" so the search bar is dark too, and things like that. Consequently this add-on pairs best with the stock Dark theme for Firefox, which is a bit bland to me. Also, this add-on (and the Dark theme) cannot affect the appearance of any sites core to Firefox like the Add-ons page (which makes sense from a privacy and security standpoint, but not from a user experience standpoint). I'd also like to have more control over the colors and adjustments than just sliders or CSS code or Toggle buttons. It would also be nice if it could darken the screen before a site loads because the flash of bright white after clicking a link is quite jolting and unpleasant.
Dark Mode for Chrome (and maybe Firefox?) has a lot more flexibility in that realm, but it's just not as quick or intelligent as Dark Reader.
Also some of my complaints are more at the way Firefox handles add-ons, so there's not a lot that the developers can do about those things.
Dark Mode for Chrome (and maybe Firefox?) has a lot more flexibility in that realm, but it's just not as quick or intelligent as Dark Reader.
Also some of my complaints are more at the way Firefox handles add-ons, so there's not a lot that the developers can do about those things.
6,807 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19931800, 6 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19931720, 7 hours ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16811523, a day agoEverything's fine, but the constant flickering on some grey-scale gradients is just incredibly annoying
- Rated 5 out of 5by Otávio Dario, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Abdur Rauf, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by luaa677, 5 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by zaibutzu, 6 days agolatest May 7 version makes reddit totally unusable, crashing the site
- Rated 3 out of 5by Webzilla, 6 days agoWith the latest Firefox update (version 150.0.2, May 7, 2026), this extension causes slow-down in the Reddit website, and only there. Screen updates lag or become unresponsive for long durations on the Reddit site. Firefox then shows a notification bar right below the address bar saying Dark Reader is causing the slowdown. Please fix if you can.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18811424, 7 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19832512, 8 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Adriel, 8 days agoVamos dizer que...essa extensão salvou meus dias! (E meus olhos!)
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19918529, 8 days agoWorks pretty well, but they broke something with the most recent update, and it's causing a huge memory leak. I had to go back to 4.9.124
- Rated 1 out of 5by Lou, 8 days agoUsed to be great, but more and more it'll make some sites like run 10-30x slower until they crash your browser tab. (Tested and confirmed it was this extension)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Илья, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by FlyChicken, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nighter, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19910058, 13 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13373464, 13 days agoOne of the OG addons have to be removed finally. Loved this addon for years but its at the point now it is very noticeably slowing down my pages. Sometimes to the point of freezing the entire browser.
IMO the addon needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18815035, 14 days agoGreat full featured Dark Mode add-on that has been steadily improving over the years. It's not perfect, but it's very close and much better than other add-ons. The only thing better than this add-on is for the webpage itself to have a dedicated dark mode. But for the rest of the internet, this add-on is pretty solid.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Khalid Rahman, 14 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by D Kent, 15 days agoWas working great for a number of years, but recently grounded my web pages to a halt. Had to remove it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Teebr0, 16 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18332686, 16 days agoWell, I would give 5 stars, but it seems to have not been updated recently and is now tanking performance. I had to uninstall sadly.