# Matte Black (White)

> A modern dark / Matte Black theme with a white accent color. Click my name for more accents.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/matte-black-theme](https://chrome-stats.com/d/matte-black-theme)

## Overview

- **ID:** `matte-black-theme`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Elijah Lopez
- **Category:** solid
- **Daily users:** 2,484
- **Weekly downloads:** 120
- **Rating:** 4.78 / 5 (449 ratings)
- **Version:** 2022.2.23
- **Last updated:** 2022-02-24
- **First published:** 2018-10-02
- **Size:** 7.60 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/matte-black-theme/)
- **Website:** [https://elijahlopez.ca/software/#matte-black-theme](https://elijahlopez.ca/software/#matte-black-theme)

## Description

**Matte Black (White)** offers a sleek, modern dark theme for your Chrome browser, featuring a sophisticated matte black background complemented by crisp white accent colors. This theme is designed to reduce eye strain while providing an elegant and stylish browsing experience. 

Users can personalize their Chrome interface with a minimalistic aesthetic that balances darkness with bright accents, enhancing readability and focus. Additional accent colors are available upon clicking the creator's name, allowing for further customization to match your preferences.

## Rankings

- #1,904 — Overall
- #35 — Solid
- #101 — math
- #135 — item
- #221 — hack

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- This permission has no access or impact on the user's system or data, thus carrying no risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Matte Black (White) is praised for its sleek, visually appealing design that reduces eye strain with white text. Users appreciate its nostalgic resemblance to older Linux versions of Firefox. However, multiple users note that the status bar's text color is not readable by default and requires manual customization via userchrome.css to fix, as themes cannot control this element directly.

### Pros

- The theme looks amazing and visually appealing.
- It is very slick and well-designed.
- It helps reduce eye strain by using white text, which some users prefer.
- Evokes nostalgic feelings by resembling older Linux Firefox themes.

### Cons

- Requires manual customization of userchrome.css to make status bar text readable, as theme alone does not control text color.
- The default status bar text color is not readable without additional user modification.

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