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by bremensaki 2035 days ago
I can't read dark themed stuff at all for any length of time, and my tolerance is getting worse as I get older. More and more sites seem to be going dark by default and many don't offer any way to switch it off.

If there's an exact opposite version of this extension, I'd love to see it. I've even tried looking quite recently, but any search for terms like dark/light theme tend to throw up nothing but results for making things dark, not light.

Tranquility Reader helps a lot, but I'd like something that focused more on colours than style, leaving the page design mostly intact.

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Qutebrowser supports custom CSS overrides. For example I have a CSS file for dark mode that replaces colors in certain html tags, but you could easily just change the color values for something lighter.

Of course it's also not perfect as it'll do that on all sites and qutebrowser isn't everyone's cup of tea.

I have a Bookmark with this as the "URL". I call it "Zap colors". I forget where I found it from. But I use it on the

javascript:(function(){var%20newSS,%20styles='%20{%20background:%20white%20!%20important;%20color:%20black%20!important%20}%20:link,%20:link%20%20{%20color:%20#0000EE%20!important%20}%20:visited,%20:visited%20*%20{%20color:%20#551A8B%20!important%20}';%20if(document.createStyleSheet)%20{%20document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'"+styles+"'");%20}%20else%20{%20newSS=document.createElement('link');%20newSS.rel='stylesheet';%20newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);%20document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS);%20}%20})();

Dark Reader actually had a light mode theme option — not sure how well it works on making dark pages light. But I’ve used the light mode with the contrast slider cranked up to make some pages easier to read! Probably worth a shot