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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?
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  • Note: I had a play with the various options available for that flag & found that 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.
    – JohnLBevan
    Apr 25, 2020 at 14:01
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    You could try pasting 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. Dec 1, 2023 at 16:56

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