Special Dark

Darkens bright pages. Love your eyes and your power bill.
What is Special Dark?
'Special Dark' is a Chrome extension aimed at enhancing user experience by changing bright webpages to darker themes. It caters not only for individual visual comfort but also to energy conservation. The extension includes specific styles for popular sites like Facebook, Amazon, Github, and Stack Exchange. It realizes the functionality of Stylish but brings in a more comprehensive coverage, only exempting a few sites. With a recent update, it has improved interface with Github and dropped Twitter styles following the introduction of Twitter's dark theme.

Extension stats

By: Eonasdan
Users: 555 ▲ 12
Rating: 3.72 (25)
Version: 1.8.0 (Last updated: 2019-09-22)
Creation date: 2019-09-22
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 101.56K

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Extension summary

##Changes 1.8.0

  • Fixed issue with github comment text.
  • Replace github styles without backgrounnd image and a more updated sheet.
  • Dropped Twitter styles since Twitter now has a dark theme.

Features:

  • Includes a few special site specific styles such as:
    • Facebook
    • Amazon
    • Github
    • Stack Exchange

I realize that Stylish exists and is useful for styling individual sites, however I think that Special Dark works well for most sites with a few exceptions.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Great extension!
  • It works as expected and is better compared to other similar extensions.
  • Life-changing improvement on the original.
Cons
  • Causes images to appear black.
  • Pages load white initially before switching to black.
  • Does not work correctly on Google Docs.
Most mentioned
  • Images are black.
  • Pages load white before turning black.
  • Problems with Google Docs.
Recent reviews
did nothing when I turned it on.
by Phil Niemi, 2024-02-17

Doesn't work correctly.
by Nick Tomards, 2024-01-07

two major problems. sites are talking long to load and we see the whites pages for many seconds. also all pics are totally black...
by Eric Ketzer, 2023-10-07
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Special Dark requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Special Dark has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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