Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another quick tutorial for you
This time on the dark theme using a few different web browsers. I'm going
to talk about what is it, the pros and cons, how to set it up,
and you can try it out for yourself and see what you think
so I personally like it, I found it a lot more relaxing on the eyes
the pros are really that it uses less battery power on your laptop. So you're
going to improve the battery life. There's less blue light, so you're having
less eye strain and you just find that it's a
bit more relaxing overall. A couple of the cons would be that
people are getting slower typing reading
and more errors, but it's also been reported that it's subjectively
worse for people with astigmatism which is surprisingly a fairly
common eye condition. In my opinion if you don't have Astigmatism
and you don't mind that you might be reading a little bit slower
then try it out. You've got nothing to lose other than a bit of time
setting it up looking at it and you may find that your eyes are less
tired and sore at the end of the day.
First we're going to look at firefox and then chrome and edge
so with Firefox there's two options in here
I like Firefox the best so I'm covering this one first because it's got
more options and control over it
let's have a look at my screen.
So the first thing in Firefox if you go up to
the top right corner in the hamburger menu
click on that and go down to customize
at the very bottom of the screen you'll see themes
and it's got a pop-up menu. It's on default, so you'd go down to
dark and you can see that the whole screen goes dark but
don't get too impressed yet. It's not going to be dark for all websites
we'll hit done and you can see that our google page is still
white background, but the top part of our screen here where we have the tab
the menu options and your favorites bar if you have that displayed, it's all dark.
But all the websites you go to will have a white background
if we go to my website as another example you'll see that it's also got
the white background. So there's still something
else that we need to do. We want to go into the add-ons. So if you
go to the hamburger menu again, and go down to add-ons
you want to search Mozilla for Dark Mode.
now there's a bunch that come up first. It's actually showing here there's over
7,000 results for a dark mode. So how do you know which one to pick?
Well you can look at the star rating this one's got the most star rating.
Even though there's less users than what this one has, maybe
this it's not that far off from stars and
it's got a lot more users, so maybe we'll go with this one
and 8 000 only 40 reviews uh 26 of which gave it a five star rating.
I don't know but also the thing that
really stands out is this note here saying that this is not a monitored
add-on for security through mozilla's recommended extensions program.
So they want to make sure that you trust it before you use it.
Well of course I don't trust I don't know who this guy is that's their name
that's the person that made this if we go and check out the other one here.
There's a person's name who designed this one.
They've got 15 reviews 12 of which
were 5 star ratings so that's a very high rating that makes it the
4.7 stars which sounds impressive but it's only out of 15 reviews
and there's only just over a thousand users that have this installed
but with this note again that they also have
saying that, you know, there basically could be a security risk if you install
this and you could let a hacker into your computer.
So I don't want to use that one either
so what we want to do is under promoted add-ons you can say by Firefox.
So any add-on you're looking for see if there's something that is made by
firefox so we know it's going to be trusted. In this case here there's
nothing by firefox so we're not able to make use of this
you could go by recommended and this one actually shows recommended
beside all of them and there's 10. So if I go into this top one here
there's 400,000 people using it.
Over 2,800 reviews
of which 2,257 gave it a five star rating so we're getting a 4.6 star overall
that's a lot of reviews a lot of users and we don't have the note saying the
scary security risk. So this is a lot safer to use
so you could install this. I've already got it installed
so it says remove. So this is where you would go to remove it if you decide
you don't want it after.
once that's installed then you can go into any website
and now... I have it installed already but I have it turned off but it's got the
little menu here so i just need to turn it back on and now I've got the dark mode.
So you can hit that little icon up at
the top for the dark reader and turn it on and off at any time and
you can change many other options in here that
you can take your time going through. Let's have a look at Google Chrome now
Google if you go on YouTube, YouTube has a feature built
right into it for a dark theme and you can turn that theme on or off anytime.
but that only applies to YouTube
we want to go in and find...
in the extensions...
under extensions again here open the chrome web store
we want to search for a dark mode. We want to look for anything by Google.
Now there's one made by Google but
this is a theme though. This is only going to affect the top
part of the browser, which might be good for you still
so you could add this...
and you can see what is done to my browser now
it's made this whole part dark. So that in itself may be good for you
but let's go back, search for dark mode but we want to find extensions.
So this will make all the web pages dark.
Now we want to find something by Google
but there is nothing by Google. So you would have to go buy other methods
to try and find something that you can trust
so maybe looking for anything that's a five-star rating
but if they're just a five star rating that can be suspicious so you'd have to
see how many people are voting for it. So I wouldn't really go by
that maybe four and up and you want to get a
high number of people that are
making the votes too and these are all pretty small, there's 2,000
2,000 again there the rest are all below 1,000
just a few hundred. So this one's got 4,000 but this
doesn't look like what we're looking for here
so you'd have to play with....uh... spend some time trying to find something
that you can trust, but you can see that there's so many
people that make these add-ons, that you have to make sure that you trust them
Just like Mozilla Firefox said you have to trust the source.
Otherwise you could be putting your
computer at risk. So let's look at Microsoft Edge now
Edge has an option for the top part if we go in the settings
under appearance and the default theme. It's got system default
you can set that to dark and it looks like everything's gone dark
but again don't get excited it only changed
the top part here like it did with Google Chrome.
It didn't change all the websites. So they're not going to be affected
you would have to then go in and find some kind of an extension
you would have to go in the extensions, get extensions
for Microsoft Edge.
Look up a dark mode theme
and there's no options here for saying that it's from
Mozilla Firefox so we're just looking at other people's
themes or extensions looking at the rating and
who it's from but or how many reviews here there's a four and a half star
rating looks like with 44 that's
probably the best one here yet, which is still pretty pathetic actually.
Uh there's not a lot of people on here using
extensions for a dark mode we can probably just say dark...
dark theme
so depending on the words that you use to search for it you'll find different
ones available here, but again
there's a dark reader here
this looks like the same guy that designed for
Firefox and Firefox said it was trusted. So
we can probably go based on that and add it in and see what that looks like.
and now you can see the web page is
looking like this we go to Google, Google is now dark
So we've got that dark theme on there
for Microsoft Edge.
That's it for this tech-torial.
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If you've already been using the dark theme
if you tried it before? have you gotten headaches from it?
have you found improvement?
and ofcourse any other videos that you guys might like to see.
Alright, thanks so much for watching sticking around to the end
and we will see you in the next video. Bye for now.