To enable Forced Dark Mode in Chrome 78 and later, follow these steps:
- Enter the following address in your URL bar:
chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark - This will bring up a hidden Chrome settings menu and the Force Dark Mode option.
- Go the drop-down menu next to Force Dark Mode and select Enabled.
- At the bottom, hit the Relaunch button to restart your browser.
Source: How to force Google Chrome to show any website in dark mode
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I'm a fan of using dark themes at night, light themes during the day. There's an experimental "Force Dark Mode for Web Contents" flag under chrome://flags which works great, and on Android an additional flag for "Darken websites checkbox in themes" exists which allows it to follow the OS wide theme (So when Android is in dark mode, both the browser AND website contents are rendered as dark).
Now, on Windows 10, the setting to force dark mode exists, but as far as I can see you can't make it follow the OS wide theme. That's a pity, since W10 also has a system wide dark theme that renders everything dark like Android. Does anyone know if there's a way to make Chrome follow the OS theme on desktop like on Android? Or whether Google has hinted at any plans to make it available?
So to start I have the "Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents" flagged on so everything is in dark mode. Goodly, Youtube, Reddit...etc. Granted I know some sites have a toggle feature in themselves. Problem with the dark mode in Chrome is for example if I am on youtube and highlite parts I want to skip to, instead of the thumbnail being visible, it's inverted and bright white. In rare instances some sites have all the pictures also inverted so they are white also.
Be nice if all sites just had a dark mode feature so we didn't have to do Chrome way that can cause issues.
I've enabled the android-web-contents-dark mode flag in Chrome on my Pixel XL, and I know it's beta so I'm grateful to have it full stop, however, one of the main points of having is that it turns the pixels on white backgrounds completely black and therefore theoretically improving battery life, if not reducing strain on my eyes by turning off those pixels. Yet it only seems to do this on images with white backgrounds and empty divs in the main body are turned a dark grey. Anybody else experience this and maybe have a solution?