Material Incognito Light Theme

Material Incognito Light Theme

A theme that removes the dark Incognito Mode colour scheme from Chrome.

What is Material Incognito Light Theme?
The 'Material Incognito Light Theme' is a Google Chrome extension dedicated to providing a light-themed interface for the traditionally dark interface of Google's Incognito mode. It achieves this by replacing the dark scheme with the light scheme used in normal mode. The extension is currently deprecated due to Google's brand consistency measures, with methods to circumvent this being temporary at best. Nonetheless, the theme is open-sourced under the Apache License with the source code available on GitHub.
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By: Fiddle
Users: 5,000+
Rating: 4.42 (146)
Version: 5.2.0 (Last updated: 2022-02-22)
Creation date: 2018-09-23
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 7.66K
URLs: Website
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Summary

This theme is deprecated as Google has blocked all official capability to theme the Incognito window.

Chrome's incognito mode (lower-case i) has been turn into Incognito (upper-case I), treated as a Google brand, not just used in Chrome but across other products like Google Maps, Gboard and others. In order to maintain a strong brand consistency, Google uses the same grey motif to indicate that you are in Incognito, and they've taken this one step further by disabling all theme customisation for Incognito.

For the time being, you can temporarily reverse this by going to chrome://flags/#incognito-brand-consistency-for-desktop and setting the flag to Disabled. This will enable this theme to work once more. However, this flag will not stick around forever, and in the future when Google removes the flag, the theme will be disabled from working permanently.

As a result of the above decisions from Google, this theme is officially deprecated and will no longer receive any updates. When the Chrome flag is eventually removed, this theme will be decommissioned at some point afterwards as there will be no need for it to exist.

Thank you for using Material Incognito Light Theme; I hope you enjoyed it whilst it was around.


Original Description

Incognito mode uses a dark colour scheme to distinguish it from normal mode. This theme removes and replaces it with the light colour scheme from normal mode.

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Pros
  • Minimal and great
  • Was good while it lasted
  • Helpful explanation from the developer
Cons
  • Does not work
  • No longer working on Chrome 118
  • Incognito mode still dark despite the extension
  • Google removed the ability to use themes in incognito
Most mentioned
  • Not working
  • Google's changes to theme customization
  • Lack of contrast in dark theme
Recent reviews
beautiful
by Alex Wong Alex Wong, 2019-10-09

beautiful
by 黄卓伦 黄卓伦, 2019-10-09

awesome. I was looking for this correction in incognito mode
by Sach Sach, 2019-09-24
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Safety
Risk impact

Material Incognito Light Theme is safe to use. It does not request any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Material Incognito Light Theme has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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