Spyke
sopuli.xyz

Did anyone actually test how fast it is compared to Dark Reader?

Calling yourself "the fastest" is all nice and good, but some benchmarks would be nice.

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Yep, people have benchmarked:

  • Firefox without any Dark Mode addon = 27 points Speedometer
  • With Dark Reader = about 11 points
  • With UltimaDark = 25-26 points
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sagreply
lemm.ee

Try it your self. Use a pretty low end device. You will see difference. It's life saver for my eyes and pretty old computer.

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sanporeply
sopuli.xyz

My "pretty low end device" is an Android, which they do not support. :/

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feddit.nl

Ah it doesn't work on Android? A pity, that's where I need dark mode the most.

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It works but it's config interface looks borked

Edit: NVM, it also breaks some sites

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I just tried it on a Firefox fork and it works fine.

Just go to the link in OP, then enable Desktop Mode in Firefox. That will let you install it.

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lemmy.world

Pro tip: Firefox can do dark mode natively, if you're ready to accept some ugly websites.

Settings > Manage colors > then set your preferred hues and Override to Always.

It's blazing fast with zero white flash, and most sites are perfectly legible.

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While I'm glad they're trying this, it has the same problem as Brave, no configuration. Dark Reader lets you configure individual site profiles via a toggle of static/dynamic/etc to fix ones that don't work well. Without that, nothing will compare.

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Dark Reader has been in development since 2014 and is much more polished

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On my rather old FP3 it spares me a few seconds per page load and the result seems quite comparable to dark reader.

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lemmy.world

Dark Reader is intensive, I will give this a shot. So far so good on FF mobile.

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sagreply

Yea, It uses native features of Gecko engines that's why it's faster than Dark Reader.

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Bogassereply
lemmy.ml

How did you install it on mobile? Do you need to use the nightly?

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mrvictory1reply
lemmy.world

Nope, you can install extensions to regular FF for a while on Android. Go to addons.mozilla.org and install like how you would do it on desktop. Request desktop site if extension claims to be incompatible.

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slrpnk.net

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I can't find a source link. Is this open source? I was curious about finding information comparing it to darkreader

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fedia.io

Anyone tried this with twitch? I just get a gray screen instead of video. Anyone else? Really like this extension otherwise

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The issue is more that the extension doesn't seem to properly let sites bypass or something. I have to turn the extension off and refresh to get picture back.

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