greybeard is a fork of SO-Dark-Monokai-v3 chrome developer tools theme. in addition of the monokai color scheme, all dev-tools ui…
What is greybeard devtools theme?
The 'Greybeard DevTools Theme' is a Chrome extension providing a new appearance to your developer tools. It adopts a dark Monokai color scheme combined with a matching dark grey palette to give your Chrome a refined and eye-friendly makeover. To apply, you need to activate 'Developer Tools experiments' in your Chrome settings. A feature also exists to adjust the tab widths to accommodate tab names. The theme, originated as a fork of the SO-Dark-Monokai-v3, is open for further customizability and improvements via GitHub.
Extension stats
By: xero
Rating: 4.05
(19)
Creation date: 2014-12-17
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 551.94K
Ranking
# 34832
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Extension summary
greybeard is a fork of SO-Dark-Monokai-v3 chrome developer tools theme. in addition of the monokai color scheme, all dev-tools ui elements have been updated to a matching dark grey palette. this is the packaged version for chrome v33+.
after installing you need to enable custom themes:
- navigate to
chrome://flags/
- enable
Developer Tools experiments
- reload chrome
- open devtools
- click settings > experiments
- click
allow custom ui themes
- reload devtools for theme to fully apply
feel free to fork it on github! https://github.com/xero/greybeard-devtools
See moreUser reviews
Pros
- Easier on the eyes than the default theme
- Great design and aesthetic appeal
- Helpful for developers
- Saves eyes from strain
- Good compatibility with Sublime Text theme
Cons
- Unreadable colors for the Elements tab
- Bright line numbers that are distracting
- Difficult to operate on console due to font color
- Not fully stylized as per screenshots
- Issues with the latest Chrome version
Most mentioned
- Works like a boss
- Saving eyes
- Colors are not appropriate
- Bright line numbers
- Difficult to read console font
Recent reviews
Works like a boss. This extension is literary saving my eyes.
Unreadable colors for the Elements tab
Great theme, I have used for quite a while, but recently a the line numbers are all colored very brightly and I had to switch, hopefully that gets fixed, thanks!
Extension safety
Risk impact
greybeard devtools theme requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
greybeard devtools theme has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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