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Control whether Firefox renders web pages in dark or light mode

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It has been reported that, if on a dark theme in KDE, Firefox automatically renders some websites that support it (e.g. Duckduckgo does, but Codidact doesn't) in dark mode.

How can I better control how Firefox behaves in respect to that?

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Not a general solution, but for ddg in particular, you can activate dark mode in the settings https:/... (2 comments)
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According to this support answer to "Home page is black",

  1. Enter about:config in the address bar.

  2. Edit the value of "layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override" to

    0 to use a dark background
    1 to use a light background
    2 to follow the system GTK theme
    3 to follow the browser toolbar theme
    

Some notes:

  • The option is not documented yet.

  • It doesn't work if "privacy.resistFingerprinting" is true.

  • Since few web pages offer a dark mode, don't expect this to affect many of them. If you want to force a dark background for any page, there are several add-ons for that, for example Dark Reader and Midnight Lizard.

  • If you choose 2 and use a global dark theme on KDE, you also need to set a dark GTK theme in the settings manager (Application style > GNOME/GTK application style). Choosing only the global theme as dark will have no effect on Firefox, because the former is Qt based and the latter GTK based.

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As alternative for darkreader, I also like `Midnight Lizard`. In my experience, midnight lizard is a ... (1 comment)
As alternative for darkreader, I also like `Midnight Lizard`. In my experience, midnight lizard is a ...
samcarter‭ wrote about 2 years ago · edited about 2 years ago

As alternative for darkreader, I also like Midnight Lizard. In my experience, midnight lizard is a bit more reliable in detecting when the system theme changes.