Reviews for Dark Reader
Dark Reader by Dark Reader Ltd
201 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by joefiesta, 5 years agoExcellent job of darkening. But, as I use it more and more, I find more I would like improved. Now 3 stars, 20251107.
1. I can not (afaik) darken as subsite, e.g. www.ebay.com/itm. I can only darken the entire domain.
2. I can not add ANY entries to the SITE LIST. All I can do is change the few that are there.
3. new (20111107): I just discovered that Dark Reader is darkening not only the web site, but Firefox's control areas. (The tab bar, the location bar and the menu bar, all of which I display.) This is HORRIBLE. It makes some fields in these very difficult to see. Sadly, all these fields are not named GUI controls, which may be the reason. Particularly annoying since I spend much time customizing ALL the colors in those fields with custom .CSS.
4. The addon is very difficult to manage. There are essentially 2 ways.
A. Left click its icon on the location bar. This opens a Dark Reader control panel.
1) I can't scroll it and can't seeall of it. I use a 150% Windows magnification level. that's probably why.
2) I have no idea what the SEPIA value does
3) THIS CONTROL PANEL DOES NOT ALLOW ME TO CONTROL ALL THE SETTINGS I CAN CHANGE.
B. Right click its icon and choose "manage extension"
1) here we find controlling the shortcut keys
Why do not A and B include all the same stuff?
5. The documentation for this addon is only fair. (Otherwise, I would have learned all the above. I READ DOCUMENTATION for almost everything)
This include operation and use of the addon
and info about recent updates.
6. Functionality: The addon does a POOR job of handling shades of gray (actually all colors, but this is the most common example since many websites lack interesting use of color.) It says it darkens bright colors. But, it should also then brighten light color to retain contrast. Webpage areas in shades of shades are often turned unreadable.
7. Money
I would contribute, but find no way to do so. All I saw was a "buy it", but I don't even remember where I saw that.
the 3 rating is muchly due to the fact that some of these issues I have mentioned long, long ago. - Rated 2 out of 5by Soto, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14928291, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15879016, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17031243, 5 years agoI have two problems with Dark Reader. (1) When I change to a new tab or new content for a tab I typically get a bright white initial display before Dark Reader kicks in to style the new content, completely dazzling my dark-adapted eyes and obviating the point of the extension and (2) Critical content is often unreadable using Dark Reader. I'm guessing that the first problem is not easy to address given the self-imposed limitations of FF's new extension mechanism!
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16986113, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Amir Rahmati, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by n.b., 5 years agoThis add-on sometimes works like a charm, but often breaks webpages, making them unusable whether or not I toggle the add-on on or off entirely or for single websites. The add-on often makes necessary navigation text and links unreadable/invisible. Also, removing the add-on does not remove the CSS from these pages, I probably need to empty my caches.
- Rated 2 out of 5by emree35, 5 years agoI usually like to use this extension on Edge browser. However, it slows down Firefox, significantly. So, I disabled and stopped using it until developers fix it.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15690325, 5 years agoUsually good, but for some reason sometimes it becomes so heavy it crashes my whole laptop.
- Rated 2 out of 5by spiercy16, 5 years agoPlug-in crashes pretty frequently and breaks websites. Otherwise, when it works, it works great.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16860157, 5 years agoSlows performance signifikant and makes some content invisible
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12760379, 5 years agoA good dark maker, unfortunately it is very slow. very very slow. Have to deinstall it.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16851399, 5 years agoDas Add-On sah erstmal super aus, hat aber nach ein paar Tagen den Browser stark ausgebremst und teilweise andere Funktionen blockiert, musste leider deinstallieren; schade.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Vishesh, 5 years agoIt modifies structure of web pages rather than just making them dark. Sometimes the web pages aren't usable because of this add-on.
- Rated 2 out of 5by auxien, 5 years agoWas really enjoying this extension until recently when it kills itself a few times a day. I have had to "turn it back on" because all my websites are burning my eyes 3-4 times a day now. Never had this problem until last week.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16747860, 5 years ago使用中表示が非常に重くなるページが出てくる。(価格コム等。)DarkReaderをオフにした状態だと違和感なく開けるが、広告が多かったり複雑でごちゃごちゃした作りのサイトの表示は厳しいかもしれない。
- Rated 2 out of 5by avery, 5 years agoworks decently on some sites, but slows my browser down a lot and breaks sites i visit fairly often - on firefox android
- Rated 2 out of 5by Big65, 5 years agoCauses the browser to bog down and will cause it to stop working and shut down at times.
- Rated 2 out of 5by DimSum88, 5 years agoThis addon used to be great. now its only 'this extention is slowing down this page' error. when i deleted the extension, sites opened within 1 second again. so by default this addon slows down loading.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16547115, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by makkes, 6 years agoThis would be an awesome extension but after some weeks of usage the signifcant performance degradation in surfing sites is not bearable, anymore. As long as the performance is so bad I'm not able to use it unfortunately.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Zach Ass, 6 years agoI loved this ad on but it made my browser beyond slow, would recommend otherwise, looking forward to updates.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16563064, 6 years ago