works great on opera as well.
Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website
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#62prefer this, and cheaper : https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dark-mode-for-safari/id13971...
Dark Reader is free, this does not seem cheaper.
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#63I tried this a few months back, I liked the visual effect and the configuration flexibility, but it ate at my CPU waaay too much. Anybody else have this? Was meaning to look for a lightweight alternative. Maybe I'll try this extension again to see if it's still a resource hog. Note: I'm on Firefox.
Just added the extension to give it a whirl. My CPU usage is 3% to 4%, memory is ~37%, on an i7 wih 16 GB RAM (and about 100 tabs open in Firefox). I like it. I was looking for something like that for a while. Nighttime browsing on LED monitors seriously hurts my eyes, even with night light settings on. This looks like it'll do the job. I'll know tonight :)
Wish you luck. The resource usage spikes I was experiencing were happening sporadically and some sites were more prone to it than others. I've just installed it again, we'll see how it goes.
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#64I tried this a few months back, I liked the visual effect and the configuration flexibility, but it ate at my CPU waaay too much. Anybody else have this? Was meaning to look for a lightweight alternative. Maybe I'll try this extension again to see if it's still a resource hog. Note: I'm on Firefox.
How are you seeing what CPU usage is used on a per extension basis?
I'm not. Wish FF had that.
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#65I use it daily in conjunction with f.lux and its been an essential combination for a smooth transition to late-night working/surfing/reading.
Specifically, after trying similar extensions, this one is the best. Its css rules fit perfectly for most of the websites which I visit.
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#66Doesn't work on Chrome Canary.
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#67How can I trust that this extension, which has access to every page I visit, doesn't steal my data? How can I trust that if someone else takes over the project and releases an update, that my data is still secure? Looks great, but I'm just so skeptical of browser extensions now.
To his credit, the author has released the source for the Chrome and Firefox versions: https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader However, I posed the same question in the MAS about the closed-source Safari version, which requires full access to webpage contents ("Can read sensitive information from webpages, including passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards on all webpages") and browsing history ("Can see when you…
But there's no proof that the published source code is the source code of the extension! You still have to just trust them
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#68i made a similar extension some years ago -- it tries to be fast and injects very little code. i'm curious to know how the performance compares: https://github.com/conceptualspace/nightlight
Your code is based on CSS filters. Dark Reader provides this mode too, but also allows users to fix and share wrongly inverted parts https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader/blob/master/src/con... Dynamic mode is slower at start, but has no impact on performance after all the stylesheets were analyzed.
nightlight is "dynamic" by using a simple heuristic after pageload to deinvert if necessary. but the crowdsourced filter is a great idea! might borrow it :)
does your extension run on android? there are two motivations for nightlight aside from its obvious purpose:
1) be fast on android 2) keep source code simple as possible so everything the extension does is obvious. when i wrote nightlight it was difficult to evaluate the safety of the other extensions at the time, something important to me for a plugin which has full access to all browsing
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#69How can I trust that this extension, which has access to every page I visit, doesn't steal my data? How can I trust that if someone else takes over the project and releases an update, that my data is still secure? Looks great, but I'm just so skeptical of browser extensions now.
Firefox add-ons pass full source code review before the submission after the Stylish incident. Safari extensions also pass manual review, Apple asks developer to send an ID card photo. Not sure about Chrome, you have to simply trust me, the code is not obfuscated and you can always locate the files and see what the extension does in your browser. Google recently announced some security changes https://blog.chromium.o…
to be less disingenuous, the review process seems to be limited to looking for specific known attack vectors, rather than a full review or evaluation of the sourcecode (which would be impractical). that said, yes, someone at mozilla does at least eyeball it
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#70How can I trust that this extension, which has access to every page I visit, doesn't steal my data? How can I trust that if someone else takes over the project and releases an update, that my data is still secure? Looks great, but I'm just so skeptical of browser extensions now.
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