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Here's what I did to get THIS style. It just highlights the active tab with a gradient; inactive tabs remain dark.
1. Install ShadowFox
2. Add your choice of the following lines to the very end of userChrome.css and save it.
3. (Optional) Follow the instructions on the FirefoxCSS sticky to set up a live preview so you can more easily adjust the colors to suit your preference.
4. Enjoy!
 
 
Gradient:

.tab-background[selected="true"] { background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #1f3c93 0%,#4b5677 100%) !important; }

 
 
I prefer a solid color instead of the gradient, so I use this instead of the previous code snippet:

.tab-background[selected="true"] { background-color: #374677 !important; background-image: none !important; }

Shadowfox is your best bet on desktop at the moment. Its just a bunch of CSS rules, no extensions needed unless you want to darken the sites as well. This is trickier to do on desktop.

Firefox has default text and background colors on the Options/Preferences page. You can type color in the search box at the top of the page to filter down to that setting.

Some sites that do not set both text and background color might be negatively affected, so if that becomes annoying, you could look for an extension or custom style rule to modify only text documents, if that is possible.

And on the more general subject of dark themes, you could look at:

• https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/darkreader/
• https://overdodactyl.github.io/ShadowFox/

Remember ft-deepdark. Well... it's like that but better.... and works in Firefox v57+ including Nightly https://overdodactyl.github.io/ShadowFox/

> Bookmarks bar always showing on New Tab

solution instruction image

> Dark theme context menu

May be solved with ShadowFox, but I haven't done it cuz it seems bothersome and I don't honestly care.

pangobright is very useful! thanks Instead of MS Edge, try firefox with shoadow fox OR vivaldi - its based on chrome and made by the original people @ opera. Both firefox and vivaldi are more power user friendly than chrome.

Instead of windows 10 video player - try something like potplayer or VLC. potplayer has its own powerful brightness and colour controls.

Are you talking about the new tab page? ShadowFox can do this (BTW it's not an extension).

>Also, anyway to change the the order of downloads in the download page by date instead of name?

I haven't seen that anywhere in the settings, so I'm going to say no on that.

Sounds like u/Tim_Nguyen is taking this on (hooray!), but you might be interested in checking out ShadowFox for either this or the rest of the dark theme it provides:

homepage: https://overdodactyl.github.io/ShadowFox/

github repo: https://github.com/overdodactyl/ShadowFox/

use a theme that sets the new tab page to dark

or modify the theme to set the new tab page to dark.

about:addons is not using the new tab page color. try this https://overdodactyl.github.io/ShadowFox/

You have Shadowfox installed I bet.

I do, and mine looks just like that. It worked fine with uBO until a few months ago.

It got "broken" with one of the updates. I don't remember if it was a Firefox or uBO update though. I think Firefox.

https://overdodactyl.github.io/ShadowFox/

If you haven't already try going to About:config search dark & set these to true.

browser.in-content.dark-mode

dark mode

ui.systemUsesDarkTheme

widget.content.allow-gtk-dark-theme

If that doesn't work try using ShadowFox

https://overdodactyl.github.io/ShadowFox/

Dark mode should be almost finished by now. Loading background is not white anymore as of the latest Nightly. I did not apply Shadowfox this time. about:addons and about:config are dark as well. Previous pref to control internal dark mode was browser.in-content.dark-mode but it looks like it changed to ui.systemUsesDarkTheme. Create a new boolean with that name and the value 2

If Firefox isn't setting dark mode for whatever reason, try Shadowfox

Have you seen it with shadowfox ?

https://i.imgur.com/eHH9WCL.jpg

Yeah, good luck using that. :)

(If you scroll down a bit on the Shadowfox page you can see what it used to look like...)

WIN: about:config > ui.systemUsesDarkTheme > Number > 1

MAC: about:config > browser.display.background_color > #000000

If that fails, try ShadowFox.

Hmm, good catch. I've just been using the installer from this site which links to an older version of the installer, 1.7.19.

Maybe there's some change between those versions that unintentionally skips the uBlockO part. Can't hurt to try, and would be a good issue to report on github if that does fix it.

Here's my setup for a dark Firefox: install Shadowfox to make Firefox fully dark and install Stylus followed by this style. I then set my preferred keyboard shortcut to toggle all styles on/off for when I need to easily disable it.

Install ShadowFox. This resolves all the extra places that are still white in Firefox including the white flash in certain instances when opening tabs and links.

Which OS? Are you downloading the installer from one of the links on this page? Which one?
With your answers to those questions, I'm sure someone here can help.

> switching over to ShadowFox

ShadowFox is just the theme, nothing else. It's not a separate browser ;]

For a list of features, see here or here

The Firefox team is working on making more and more of the internal stuff dark when using the dark theme, but they're not there yet.

One option is ShadowFox, which afaict is a complete custom theme using userChrome.css and userContent.css to give a consistent dark theme to most/all of Firefox.

Alternatively, if you like the standard Firefox dark theme and just want to fix the settings page, you can visit r/FirefoxCSS and probably find a handy guide there to giving about: pages (like settings) a dark theme also via the userContent.css file in your profile.

Why the fuck state that, "no, sorry, Firefox DOES ship with a Dark Mode to mitigate the eye-bleed, but that is for devolpers only!! honest"

• ShadowFox
  
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/midnight-lizard-quantum/
• Show that fuckface your laptop or a computer with Firefox's Dark Mode, and when he state that, 'you must be using Developer Edition', show home the About Firefox box in Menu > Help > About.

Firefox does implement a dark mode:

1. Either depending on Windows 10's Light/Dark theme.
2. Dark theme in Firefox
3. https://overdodactyl.github.io/ShadowFox/

It's not, but the developer of the Firefox dark theme, ShadowFox, is working on a theme for Thunderbird: ShadowBird (still a work-in-progress).

No problem! There's some more screenshots both on the github page and the website if you want to check them out as well :)

• GitHub Repo
• Homepage

>but it conflicts with another .css addition to the chrome folder that moves my tabs to the bottom

I can't think of anything in ShadowFox that would cause a conflict with the location of your tabs...are you sure?

>not to mention ShadowFox isn't nearly as dark as I'd like in many areas

You can easily make it darker. To do so, you can mess with the customization section here:

https://overdodactyl.github.io/ShadowFox/

and/or read about how to do it here:

https://github.com/overdodactyl/ShadowFox/wiki/Customization

https://overdodactyl.github.io/ShadowFox/

i am unsure if Firefox's upcoming dark theme overhaul will fix this,