make everything dark in firefox
Hi, I'm trying to get as much as possible of firefox to use dark theme to save my eyes at night.
I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/ to customize the sites automatically and it does an excellent job, except that firefox pages can't be customized with it and by that I mean:
about:blank about:newtab about:config about:preferences
for the blank and newtab pages I found three solutions:
1- create a [userContent.css](http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserContent.css) file with the following
@-moz-document url-prefix(about:blank) {*{background-color:#000000;}}
@-moz-document url-prefix(about:newtab) {*{background-color:#000000;}}
2- go to about:config and change
browser.display.background_color to #000000
browser.display.foreground_color to #ffffff
3- Go to "Preferences" and search for "colors" click on the colors button and set the background and text colors to the same colors as in 2.
now I tried all of the solutions above and all of them have side effects, the most prominent and annoying one is flashing white page for a couple of seconds when opening a new tab or white page while the website, other annoyances is that the settings don't apply to about:config and about:preferences even if I add them in userContent.css
-To test the flashing white you only need to open a new tab (while applying my settings above) and you will see it.
-To the white page before the site is loaded you need to open the link from another page(if you open a new tab and then paste the link you won't get the white page since the about:blank or about:newtab will have the dark background)
so to see my problem do the following:
1- go to https://github.com/biesiad/deelay#deelayme
2- right click on deelay.me link and click "open link in a new tab"
the link will be opened in a new tab that has the background in white or grayish color.
How can I solve these problems ? any tip would be appreciated.
Regards
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You could borrow from or adopt the userContent.css file (possibly also userChrome.css) in this project:
https://overdodactyl.github.io/ShadowFox/
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Hello moham 09,
In Firefox there is a built-in dark theme which darkens the about:newpage. about:preferences will however always remain white
MickvdMeijde said
Hello moham 09, In Firefox there is a built-in dark theme which darkens the about:newpage. about:preferences will however always remain white
I'm already using that theme and it doesn't make the about:newtab dark
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You could borrow from or adopt the userContent.css file (possibly also userChrome.css) in this project:
Sorry, I didn't read your original question carefully enough. Do you already have a userChrome.css file with a default "empty tab" color? I think you will need that to supplement your page coloring rules. Definitely check out ShadowFox.
jscher2000 said
You could borrow from or adopt the userContent.css file (possibly also userChrome.css) in this project: https://overdodactyl.github.io/ShadowFox/
Thanks, I've never heard of ShadowFox before, it solved my issues. Now I need to read the css and customize to my liking
I have tried all "Dark Theme" extensions and prefer Dark Mode for sites -try Dark Mode #6. With the addition of ShadowFox the results are exactly what I need.