How to enable dark mode in Microsoft Chromium Edge Browser

Microsoft launched beta versions of its Chromium-based Edge browser earlier this week and it was very tempting to try, mainly because it's so familiar to all Chrome enthusiasts. This does not mean, however, that the Edge is simply a modified version of Google's browser. There are many changes, including a brand new way to unlock the hidden "dark mode" of the browser, which blends well with your application's preferences in Windows itself.

If you want Edge to look more like the browser the Addams family could use, it's easy to unlock its built-in dark mode. Download it (preferably the "Dev" built for now) and type this in the address bar: edge: // flags

Sounds familiar? This should be the case if you have already played with the Chrome settings under the hood. In Edge, you now want to do a quick search on the word "theme". You should display a screen similar to this (I have already enabled the option, what you need to do next!):

Close and reopen the browser … and nothing will probably be different. As stated in the description of the "Microsoft Edge theme", the forced affiliation of your browser is based on the application theme you have selected in Windows: Light or Dark.

To switch from one to another, right-click on your Windows desktop and select "Customize", or open the Start menu, type that word, then select "Related Themes and Settings" ", your selection. Click on "Colors" in the sidebar and scroll down the screen until you reach the "Choose your default application mode" option. Switching from Light to Dark, or vice versa, changes the appearance of your various elements on the screen in Windows 10, including compatible applications, unless they have their own specific parameter that you need to adjust within the application itself.

That's all! Easy. But if you're just testing Edge, but still want to experience the dark mode on your other browsers, that's just as easy.

In Chromium, you will want to right-click on the icon in the taskbar, right-click on "Google Chrome", then select "Properties". Look for the "Target" line, place your cursor at the very end, tap the spacebar. and type two less signs followed by "force-dark-mode", without quotation marks. (Whenever I type this into our CMS, it changes the two less signs into a hyphen, so apologize for that.)

The line should look like this when you're done:

Click OK. The next time you open Chrome, everything will be black. I admit that I am not a big fan of the implementation of Google compared to that of Microsoft, because the menus of Chrome are almost unreadable to read, but it is obviously d & # 39; a feature that still needs to be tweaked. A "real" dark mode for Windows could happen right out of Chrome 74. So let's hope that it's only a temporary measure.

As for Firefox, this one is easy. Open the browser, click on the hamburger icon in the upper right corner and select "Add-ons" or simply use the CTRL + Shift + A shortcut anywhere in your browser to display the screen superior. Click on "Themes" and you will be able to switch between Light, Dark and Default. (This will set your Firefox browser to everything you've set in Windows, like what you just did for Edge.)