Dark Reader for Chrome Changelog

What's new in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.63

Jun 21, 2023
  • Site toggle panel (detect dark theme and shortcut).
  • App toggle panel (automation and shortcut).
  • Improved Site List indexing.
  • Users' fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.59 (Oct 23, 2022)

  • Remove newlines from CSS URL values, before handling them.
  • Better detection for text color property in variables.
  • Es-419 (Latin America & Caribbean Spanish) translation.
  • Updates to Hebrew and Portuguese (Brazilian) translations.
  • Users' fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.58 (Sep 22, 2022)

  • Fix iframes not getting modified when settings were changed
  • Fixed registering system automation handlers multiple times
  • Users' fixes for websites

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.55 (Aug 16, 2022)

  • Fixed Google calendar.
  • Fixed incorrect inline background colors when `mask` is explicitly disabled.
  • Fixed breaking for some old browser versions.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.53 (Aug 9, 2022)

  • Don't manage styles that have an empty `href` attribute.
  • Use `navigator.UserAgentData` when possible.
  • Add a `<meta name="darkreader-lock">` detector, to disable Dark Reader when detected (only dynamic theme).
  • Fix filter theme for Firefox v102+
  • Correctly open static theme editor on Mobile.
  • Migrate automation settings to its own object.
  • Correctly handle empty URL's in `background-image` property.
  • Make color parsing use cache.
  • Send updates only to affected tabs when toggling sites.
  • Fixed images with masks (Gmail icons issue).
  • Background page refactoring.
  • Users' fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.47 (Mar 14, 2022)

  • Users' fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.34 (Jul 7, 2021)

  • Dynamic mode bug fixes and performance improvements.
  • Minor UI improvements.
  • Users' fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.33 (May 28, 2021)

  • Fixed disability to switch on sites in Global Dark List.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Users' fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.31 (Apr 5, 2021)

  • Fixed performance bottleneck for websites with CSS variables.
  • Users' fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.30 (Apr 1, 2021)

  • Improved CSS Variables support.
  • Dynamic mode bug fixes.
  • Fixed toggle shortcut keys for PDFs.
  • Users' fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.29 (Feb 23, 2021)

  • Users' fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.27 (Feb 6, 2021)

  • Dynamic mode improvements.
  • Thunderbird support.
  • Users' fixes for websites.
  • Users' translation improvements.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.24 (Nov 25, 2020)

  • Dynamic mode fixes and performance improvements.
  • Updates for Dutch translation.
  • Users' fixes for websites.
  • Reduced assets size.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.22 (Oct 26, 2020)

  • Fixed high CPU usage caused by conflict with some websites.
  • Dynamic mode bug fixes.
  • Users' fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.16 (Sep 2, 2020)

  • V5 Preview:
  • Theme presets.
  • Export generated CSS into a file.
  • Ability to force Sites Fixes sync.
  • Font settings.
  • Basic Site List
  • Rounded controls.
  • Display app version in popup.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Detect if a website uses Dark Reader API to prevent high CPU usage.
  • Fix for websites that constantly remove Dark Reader's style sheet.
  • Users' fixes for websites.
  • Dev Tools:
  • INGORE IMAGE ANALYSIS section.
  • Configurable CSS variables (--darkreader-neutral-bg, --darkreader-neutral-text).
  • Updated docs https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader/#use-dev-tools

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.14 (Jul 8, 2020)

  • Fixes for websites that clear Dark Reader style (Baidu and others).
  • Fix for style links in Shadow DOM.
  • Fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.9.13 (Jun 30, 2020)

  • Fix for Gmail with custom background images (multiple levels of media queries).

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.8.10 (Mar 5, 2020)

  • Arabic translation (thanks to Omar Namis).
  • Updates to Indonesian translation (thanks to @zmni).
  • Fixes for Facebook and Instagram.
  • Users' fixes for websites (special thanks to @Myshor).

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.8.2 (Oct 22, 2019)

  • Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) help pages are available (thanks to @reiscigit).
  • Chinese translation fixes.
  • Hindi translation fixes (thanks to Sidhant Bhatia).
  • Users' fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.8.1 (Oct 22, 2019)

  • Fixes for YouTube colors.
  • Users fixes for websites.
  • Update for Turkish translation.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.8.0 (Oct 22, 2019)

  • Ability to activate extension based on sunrise and sunset time at location (thanks to Kovács Márk).
  • Ability to activate extension when system dark mode is on (thanks to Max Sysoev).
  • Turkish translation (thanks to Cumhur @cmhrky).
  • Users fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.7.16 (Aug 24, 2019)

  • Check for MIME type when loading style sheets.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.7.14 (Aug 24, 2019)

  • Display warning icon if fixes were made in Dev Tools.
  • Spanish help page translation (thanks to Ramón Morcillo).
  • Sinhalese translation (thanks to Dimuth Tharindu).
  • Ukrainian translation (thanks to Oleksandr @lytvoles).
  • Improved Hindi translation (thanks to @UchihaSR).
  • Users' fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.7.13 (Jul 23, 2019)

  • Fixes for websites by users.
  • Updates for Chinese (TW), Italian and French translations by users.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.7.12 (Jul 9, 2019)

  • Improved Korean translation (thanks to @little7279).
  • Users' fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.7.11 (Apr 24, 2019)

  • Patch for new YouTube.
  • Users' fixes.
  • Modify theme color on Android.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.7.10 (Apr 10, 2019)

  • Thai translation (thanks to Mekokung).
  • Ability to set values multiples of 5.
  • Less blue backgrounds.
  • Dynamic mode fixes.
  • Users' fixes.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.7.9 (Mar 24, 2019)

  • Make extension work when Local Storage disabled.
  • French Help page translation (thanks to Thomas Hollis).
  • Users' fixes for websites.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.7.8 (Mar 17, 2019)

  • Fixed white flash when showing tab loaded in background.
  • Stop syncing configs with GitHub (GitHub team complained it causes too much traffic).
  • Users' fixes.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.7.2 (Dec 20, 2018)

  • Dynamic mode optimizations.
  • Prevent possible 100% CPU usage caused by incompatibilities with other extensions.
  • Fixed re-applying restored style (Baidu issue).
  • Improved Japanese translation (thanks to @ytakahashi).
  • Updated UI colors and icons.
  • Users' fixes.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.7.1 (Dec 7, 2018)

  • Fixed "Invert listed only" option.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.7.0 (Dec 6, 2018)

  • Time settings (ability to set active hours).
  • Clear indication of current website state (enabled or not).
  • Dynamic mode performance improvements.
  • Users' fixes.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.6.12 (Nov 2, 2018)

  • Dynamic mode fixes.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.6.11 (Nov 1, 2018)

  • Fixed new tab remaining white (was just broken in 4.6.10).

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.6.9 (Oct 10, 2018)

  • Improved dynamic theme colors (decreased saturation).
  • Improved blue links colors.
  • Performance improvements.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.6.8 (Sep 13, 2018)

  • Improved German app and help page translation (thanks to @stonecrusher).
  • Fixed minor bugs and warnings.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.6.7 (Sep 9, 2018)

  • Japanese translation fixes (thanks to @ScratchBuild from Tokyo).
  • Check that Site List is correctly stored.
  • Prevent XML warnings in console.
  • Users fixes.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.6.6 for Firefox (Aug 24, 2018)

  • Fixed 404 when loading some images (e.g. on feedly.com)
  • Fixed forcing enabling the app when migrating the settings from v4.6.2.
  • Hide news icon if 2 weeks passed.
  • Some fix for Romanian translation.
  • Users' fixes.

New in Dark Reader for Chrome 4.6.5 for Firefox (Aug 19, 2018)

  • Fixed "null" message in settings pop-up (could break on older browser versions).