# Toggle dark mode

> Toggle the content’s color scheme between preferring light or dark (or inheriting)

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/toggle-dark-mode](https://chrome-stats.com/d/toggle-dark-mode)

## Overview

- **ID:** `toggle-dark-mode`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Cimbali
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 956
- **Weekly downloads:** 24
- **Rating:** 4.20 / 5 (30 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2021-10-19
- **First published:** 2021-10-18
- **Size:** 53 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-15
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/toggle-dark-mode/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/Cimbali/toggle-dark-mode](https://github.com/Cimbali/toggle-dark-mode)

## Description

Toggle Dark Mode is a minimal and powerful Chrome extension designed to easily cycle through content color schemes. By clicking the toolbar button, users can switch between dark, light, inheriting the browser's preferences, or inheriting the system's color scheme. The add-on requires minimal permissions, ensuring a lightweight experience.

The extension works best with websites supporting native dark and light modes like DuckDuckGo, Google, GitHub, and StackOverflow. For unsupported sites, users can incorporate custom styles via user stylesheet tools like Stylus combined with CSS media queries for `prefers-color-scheme`. Note that when strong fingerprinting protections are enabled in Firefox, this extension’s toggle may have no effect, as the browser conceals color preferences from websites. Enhance your browsing comfort quickly with Toggle Dark Mode!

## Rankings

- #3,384 — Overall
- #3 — toggle
- #16 — dark mode
- #38 — model
- #69 — dark
- #135 — example

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `browserSettings`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users praise the extension for being simple and effective at toggling the prefers-color-scheme (light/dark) for testing and development, and for its minimal permissions. It performs well on sites that support the feature. However, several reviews mention reliability problems, with the extension not working on some sites. A common request is to add more features like per-site dark/light presets and auto-refresh when toggling.

### Pros

- Simple, lightweight and easy to use.
- Toggles the CSS media query (prefers-color-scheme) to switch between light and dark.
- Minimal permissions / privacy-friendly.
- Useful for web development/testing to preview dark/light modes.
- Works on sites that support the prefers-color-scheme feature.

### Cons

- Reliability issues: not all users report it works on every site; it can fail on some sites.

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