I'm running Chrome on Windows 10. Windows is running in dark mode, and I've enabled the chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark
flag for Chrome (set to Enabled
, rather than any of the more complex options).
Most of the time it behaves exactly as I'd like, but there are a lot of sites where dark mode makes it hard to see icons (e.g. Google's own Gmail; even if I amend the Gmail theme). I'm surprised that Google's own products don't play well with this feature, so thought I may be missing a trick...
- Does Windows Dark Mode have some impact on Chrome's Dark Mode?
- Is there a way to set Chrome to prefer a Dark Mode theme when one's present (i.e. it looks like CSS developers can flag their stylesheets for this (
prefers-color-scheme: dark
). Does Chrome have a handshake to not apply it's own theme if one's given / only force dark mode if there's no such preference?:prefers-color-scheme: dark
). - Is there any setting/flag/config which helps ensure you're generally in dark mode, but that works well in sites like Gmail and GitHub?
enabled with selective image inversion
seems to work best. Some sites look awful; it's a shame there's no option to pick a preferred mode per site; but for the vast majority of scenarios this seems to behave as desired.chrome://settings/manageProfile
into the navigation bar of your web browser, and see if you can choose a theme from there. For me, this works in Google Chrome, but unfortunately not in the latest version of the Iridium browser.