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A comment on Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support.

Re:Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support by lukaa on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:12AM (#21343401)
Firefox Preview is great but I don't understand why it doesn't have night mode and neither one of Firefoxes. Today night mode is standard for almost all of the applications and that's the only reason why I simply can not switch to Firefox completely. Btw, don't say that addons are good for since they only switch text in dark not UI. Even Chrome now allows UI to change to dark not just text.
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Re:Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support by amjd on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:15AM (#21343423)
Firefox Preview supports dark mode for UI. You can switch between light, dark or follow the device theme.
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Re:Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support by lukaa on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:27AM (#21343502)
But it doesn't have ability to make text dark so again there is no dark mode.
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Re:Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support by yorwba on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:51AM (#21343659)
Here's the Twitter homepage in Firefox Preview with dark (device default) vs. light theme: https://i.imgur.com/T2KknGa.png

What else are you asking for?

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Re:Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support by jumbopapa on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:55AM (#21344166)
This is likely Twitter adhering to browser dark theme. OP wants Firefox to handle the dark theme itself and convert all web pages.
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Re:Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support by cpeterso on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:09PM (#21348100)
Here is the GitHub issue requesting Firefox Preview force dark mode. Firefox for iOS has some CSS hacks to support this, but it can break some websites.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/2139

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Re:Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support by bepvte on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:32AM (#21343528)
Websites are complex, you cannot make a script that edits every page to make it both dark and readable when things like the background could be light colored images and fonts that are permanently dark exist
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Re:Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support by noisem4ker on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:58AM (#21343708)
It's actually feasible for most websites, with surprisingly good results. CSS tricks go a long way, even if the website doesn't support prefers-color-scheme.

Give this addon a try (on desktop or mobile Fennec only, obviously): Dark Background and Light Text [0]

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-backgrou...

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Re:Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support by andrewaylett on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:47AM (#21344103)
https://darkreader.org/ works really well, in my experience.
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