Special Dark

Darkens bright pages. Love your eyes and your power bill.

Special Dark: Chrome Extension for Dark Themes

'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.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2025-02-11

By: Eonasdan

Users: 496

Rating: 3.72

(25)

Version: 1.8.0 (Last updated: 2019-09-22)

Version code: 1.8.0

Creation date: 2019-09-22

Manifest version: 2

Size: 101.56K

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Extension summary

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##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

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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.

User reviews

did nothing when I turned it on.

Phil Niemi, 2024-02-17

Doesn't work correctly.

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...

Eric Ketzer, 2023-10-07

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Special Dark requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
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