# Dark Theme for Google™

> A highly customizable dark theme for Google products (search, images, translate, and contacts)

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/dark-theme-for-google](https://chrome-stats.com/d/dark-theme-for-google)

## Overview

- **ID:** `dark-theme-for-google`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Joe Ertaba
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 5,413
- **Weekly downloads:** 44
- **Rating:** 4.17 / 5 (233 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.6.3
- **Last updated:** 2023-03-07
- **First published:** 2017-02-15
- **Size:** 164 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/dark-theme-for-google/)
- **Website:** [https://webextension.org/listing/dark-theme.html?from=google](https://webextension.org/listing/dark-theme.html?from=google)

## Description

The "Dark Theme for Google™" Chrome extension offers a flexible and customizable dark mode for popular Google services including Google Search, Google Images, Translate, and Contacts. It supports all localized Google domains and allows users to set specific activation periods or automatically sync with their system's preferred color scheme, enhancing eye comfort during browsing.

Users can customize background colors, link colors, and even append custom CSS rules via the extension's options page for a personalized experience. Note that it is independent from Google Inc. and is open-source. This extension supports multiple Google hostnames such as www.google.com, images.google.com, and encrypted.google.com, ensuring broad compatibility.

## Rankings

- #1,126 — Overall
- #175 — Appearance
- #10 — dark theme
- #18 — hd theme
- #21 — google keep
- #22 — google

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `alarms`
- `idle`
- `*://www.gstatic.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

### Pros

- Works well on Firefox Android
- Provides dark theme styles for specific Google services like translate.google.com

### Cons

- Currently broken and needs an update
- Causes Firefox to slow down and leads to timeouts
- Does not darken Google Docs, Google Classroom, Google Drive, or Google Sheets effectively

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/dark-theme-for-google)