QoL feature: on/off toggle for experimental dark mode

[faandg]

Hi,

I use Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents (praise the lord for this flag 🙏) to prevent migraines due to excessive eye-strain from staring at cloud apps with white backgrounds.

Certain functionality however is not displayed properly in this mode due to the owners never putting any effort into dark mode compatibility. In the past couple of years I've made plenty mistakes such as but not limited to:

• pasting white text on dark background in Jira issues --> users with white backgrounds could not see my text
• using excessive bright colors when drafting tables as well as totally missing out on line separators in documentation on Confluence
• ignoring charts/graphs/images because they don't render properly
• ...

The least we can do as end-users is to provide feedback and report it to their owners and if we are lucky they act upon it.

I acknowledge you cannot fix other people's websites or take over their responsibilities.

But I do propose a slight quality of life change because there will always be incompatible sites: When Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents is set, add a toggle for it somewhere near the extensions/wallet/VPN button area. This would allow us to quickly switch and review our dark mode-created work in the standard light mode other users will see and then switch back.

Right now I have to go to brave://flags/, disable the flag, relaunch (sometimes it even refuses to launch!), review my changes, back to brave://flags/, enable the flag, relaunch. Open to alternative suggestions.

[ghost]

+1, a toggle would be perfect.

If only I had a toggle to turn #enable-force-dark on and off without restarting the whole browser - life would be perfect 🏖️. #enable-force-dark too often breaks many things, and I would like a toggle to quickly switch the flag off, look at the part of the page which was broken with the flag on, then switch the flag back on.

There's the well-known Dark Reader extension https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader, but in order for it to function, it requires access "to read and change all your data on websites you visit", which is a security risk. The probability that this extension will go rogue is minimal, since the developers receive a lot of donations and will highly likely not do anything malicious. But if a browser already has a built-in functionality to apply a dark mode to webpages without having to rely on a third-party extension and increase your attack surface - I would go all out not to use an extension with such a risky and sensitive permission, thereby reducing the number of entities I have to trust.

[LorenDB]

Opera has had this feature for some time now. Their implementation is as follows:

• There is a settings toggle for forcing dark mode across the board.
• Right clicking on any site shows an option to disable or enable dark mode for just that site, which means you can filter broken sites easily.

I'd love to see this implemented in Brave as it is a lot smoother than using Dark Reader.