Reviews for Dark Reader
Dark Reader by Dark Reader Ltd
Review by Thunder
Rated 2 out of 5
by Thunder, 5 years ago2 stars for effectively giving me the ability to put dark mode on any website.
-3 stars for
1) making all my tabs run slower...significantly slower
2) not honoring my preference of not running the addon on certain sites. After setting a site to not use the addon when I return to the page, the addon will still sometimes applying theming to the page...sometimes incompletely. This sometimes caused text to become unreadable.
A change could be made to the addon to correct this...default to off. Let me set a preference for if I want to apply dark mode or light mode, and then let me turn it on rather than force me to turn it off when it doesn't work for a site. This would default to the addon doing nothing on any sites until I explicitly say I want to use it there. You could even set it so I can choose whether the addon is used by default or not used by default. Options are always good.
I have uninstalled this addon because of these problems. If I hear these issues have been corrected, I'll try it again.
-3 stars for
1) making all my tabs run slower...significantly slower
2) not honoring my preference of not running the addon on certain sites. After setting a site to not use the addon when I return to the page, the addon will still sometimes applying theming to the page...sometimes incompletely. This sometimes caused text to become unreadable.
A change could be made to the addon to correct this...default to off. Let me set a preference for if I want to apply dark mode or light mode, and then let me turn it on rather than force me to turn it off when it doesn't work for a site. This would default to the addon doing nothing on any sites until I explicitly say I want to use it there. You could even set it so I can choose whether the addon is used by default or not used by default. Options are always good.
I have uninstalled this addon because of these problems. If I hear these issues have been corrected, I'll try it again.
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- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16811523, a day agoEverything's fine, but the constant flickering on some grey-scale gradients is just incredibly annoying
- Rated 5 out of 5by Otávio Dario, 4 days ago
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- Rated 2 out of 5by zaibutzu, 6 days agolatest May 7 version makes reddit totally unusable, crashing the site
- Rated 3 out of 5by Webzilla, 6 days agoWith the latest Firefox update (version 150.0.2, May 7, 2026), this extension causes slow-down in the Reddit website, and only there. Screen updates lag or become unresponsive for long durations on the Reddit site. Firefox then shows a notification bar right below the address bar saying Dark Reader is causing the slowdown. Please fix if you can.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18811424, 7 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19832512, 8 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Adriel, 8 days agoVamos dizer que...essa extensão salvou meus dias! (E meus olhos!)
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19918529, 8 days agoWorks pretty well, but they broke something with the most recent update, and it's causing a huge memory leak. I had to go back to 4.9.124
- Rated 1 out of 5by Lou, 8 days agoUsed to be great, but more and more it'll make some sites like run 10-30x slower until they crash your browser tab. (Tested and confirmed it was this extension)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Илья, 11 days ago
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13373464, 13 days agoOne of the OG addons have to be removed finally. Loved this addon for years but its at the point now it is very noticeably slowing down my pages. Sometimes to the point of freezing the entire browser.
IMO the addon needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18815035, 14 days agoGreat full featured Dark Mode add-on that has been steadily improving over the years. It's not perfect, but it's very close and much better than other add-ons. The only thing better than this add-on is for the webpage itself to have a dedicated dark mode. But for the rest of the internet, this add-on is pretty solid.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Khalid Rahman, 15 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by D Kent, 15 days agoWas working great for a number of years, but recently grounded my web pages to a halt. Had to remove it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Teebr0, 16 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18332686, 16 days agoWell, I would give 5 stars, but it seems to have not been updated recently and is now tanking performance. I had to uninstall sadly.