Reviews for automaticDark - Time-Based Theme Changer
automaticDark - Time-Based Theme Changer by simonkhzhang
184 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17652568, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by cgphil, 2 years agoEDIT: With the release of 1.4.1, I can now wholeheartedly recommend this extension!
Original review below:
This extension fixes the biggest issue with the current Firefox theme settings. When "Automatic" is selected, Firefox doesn't seem to provide an option to select which theme to use for the light and dark modes, instead using the default themes for "Automatic." Thankfully, this extension lets you change that by selecting a "Daytime" and "Nighttime" theme. Combine this with Dark Reader and Firefox becomes very satisfying to use.
So why the two stars?
According to the description, the "Change themes based on the system theme" setting has been broken since Firefox 100. Understandable, I will just wait for a fix. However, we are currently on version 106. Version 100 was released at the beginning of May. Additionally, the Github page for this project shows very little activity for this issue, with the most recent comment having been posted 10 days ago, but the comment prior to that having been posted on July 17. The setting also seems to routinely break, as there are other issues opened for the same problem going back to 2020.
I frequently change the system theme manually when the weather is overcast (or just straight up bad), so I would like for this setting to work. However, to leave the setting in while it is knowingly broken is not a great decision, and I cannot recommend this extension to others while broken settings remain.Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for the review and feedback. That was a difficult problem to solve but should now be fixed in version 1.4.1. - Rated 5 out of 5by Claudiu, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14023062, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nik, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 三叁隼, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17502567, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Kyle, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Abigail J., 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by manstheram, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Darek, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Thu Htoo San, 3 years agoThis stopped working on latest Firefox version. Please fix it ASAP.
ISSUE: System theme cannot be detected by the extension.Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for the review and feedback. The system theme issue should now be fixed in version 1.4.1. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16348141, 3 years agoThis recently stopped working on newest Firefox
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17426314, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13782624, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aa, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13797189, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by julikin, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14130624, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17319106, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jorgegarciar, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cezar, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17296166, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15661021, 3 years ago