I recently spent ages trying to find a good solution to webpages not displaying in the font I want them to display in for accessibility reasons; I couldn't find a solution that worked everywhere or almost everywhere. Even the in browser settings aren't respected the majority of time.

But a couple of weeks ago I randomly discovered that the #DarkReader browser addon I have been using for years had a font override option the whole time. I've been using that feature since and haven't had an issue at all, it seems to work flawlessly with font fallback working too. I highly recommend it.

https://darkreader.org

Dark Reader — dark theme for every website

Dark mode for every website. Take care of your eyes, use dark theme for night and daily browsing. For Chrome and Firefox, Edge and Safari.

Dark Reader

well well well, i have synthesised a pretty comfy workaround. the basic problem ofc remains, which is why i call this a workaround not solution.

  • my daily browser is  , hence can/does use the Mozilla-created AddOn #SideView (which tbh i always misremember as being #OpenInSidebar)
  • i have reverted my #Friendica Settings Display theme to the default Light [ow ow ouch, my poor eyes!]
  • i have re-enabled the AO #DarkReader for this site (eyes go phew!)
  • once again now, per my OP, if i access my received Friendica Notifications in the main page, Dark Reader entirely hides the momentary shading / highlighting of the applicable post... ie, most unhelpful
  • however, when viewing my account in the sidebar, via Side View, the Dark Reader AO does not work, so i see only the underlying Light theme. this is usually a large disadvantage IMO of using Side View, but in this specific scenario, it is actually handy...
  • if, hereafter, i open my account Notifications not any more in the main page, but in the sidebar, still being the Light theme means i now DO get to see that helpful momentary shading / highlighting of the applicable post
  • yes it is blinding, but less so than the main page coz its area is much smaller, plus i am only in that sidebar view for seconds, after which i revert to its default, being #TreeStyleTab.
  • so far, this new workflow seems quite good

fwiw.

@helpers i really wish there was another option for having a dark theme in #Friendica. i would like having a multi-shade black / charcoal page, with lavender / violet accents, but so far have not found a way to achieve it (note, for many years i used to use the #Stylus AddOn, with which i created numerous custom themes for many sites, but a year ago i disabled it & others as part of my desire to begin minimising all non-essential AO attack surfaces). Though in many ways using #DarkReader for Friendica is quite good, overall i tend to eschew it being on for this site, coz it hides that handy temporary shading highlight of posts in a thread for which a Notification was received.

The small number of current dark themes offer me a rather unappealing colour choice.

The custom theme option initially excited me, til i realised, afaict, it is based on the Light theme, with no Dark theme option, so that all the dialogue boxes & dropdown menus remain eye-piercingly bright white, that hurts my eyes. The least-worst i could conjure was

{"nav_bg":"#54207b","nav_icon_color":"#f3d0f1","link_color":"#5b38a6","background_color":"#5b4d71","background_image":"","contentbg_transp":"42"}
but as mentioned, too much blinding white remains.

inevitably then, i keep returning to the so-called Black theme, but it is... quite boring. the entire page is simply all a single "shiny" black tone, with my chosen accent relieving the monotony. compare this to the so-called Dark themes, to see the difference; they use different shades of the base colour, which is more visually appealing, creating a "panelled" effect.

Кажется браузер #firefox умеет следить. В видео, в районе 32-34 секунд можно заметить моргание на фоне. Полагаю это скриншот веб-страницы. В #chrome такого не заметил.
Дело было так, я зашел на страницу Википедии про #vault7 далее ради любпытства прошел по ссылке на страницу /*Goretti (10 February 2020). "US v. Joshua Schulte Trial Transcript 2020-0206". United States District Court Southern District of New York.*/ (ссылку не стану размещать), на VPN был европейский ip-адрес, потом выделял нужные строки на английском и переводил, чтобы понять записи из суда по делу об утечке из ЦРУ. Ну, вот так я заметил что на заднем фоне страница подозрительно моргала, я пробовал множество раз, вернулся назад на страницу Википедии и моргания продолжились, решил открыть домашнюю страницу расширения #darkreader там тоже самое, из множества попыток перевода моргнуло только с первой попытки, видимо избирательная система скринов или на другом конце человек.
Вдруг здесь есть хакеры, донесите до разрабов.

When a website has not a #darkreader mode my eyes be gonna 🔥👀🔥 #ouch

https://tenor.com/view/eyes-burning-my-eyes-spongebob-gif-5183364

eyes

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Tenor
There's a lot of hate for the new #BOM page, but having used the beta version for ages I'm not feeling it personally. One gripe I do have is that the price tag didn't include a dark mode setting. Really?
Since I use the #DarkReader extension for #Librewolf it's not a huge issue, except that the page has background mages that make it unreadable in dark mode. So it looks like the before picture. So I got out the screwdriver, took the back off and jiggled some wires. So if anyone wants a #userScript that fixes bom.gov.au for Darkreader it's at https://codeberg.org/stib/userscripts/src/branch/main/bom_no_BG.user.js
#IMadeAThing #HackTheWeb
#DarkReader in #Firefox kann unheimliche Ergebnisse liefern. Zuerst habe ich passend zu #Weihnachten an den #Lebkuchenmann aus #Shrek gedacht.

@pheonix AdNauseum, Decentraleyes, Dark Reader, Video Background Play Fix

What they do:
#AdNauseum : Is an ad-blocker but also fights back against advertising surveillance.
#Decentraleyes : Protects against tracking through "free", centralised content delivery.
#DarkReader : Dark mode for every website.
#VideoBackgroundPlayFix : Background playback on all sites (even the ones that don't want you to)

#browserextensions #browserextension #browser_extension #firefoxextensions #firefoxextension

@eniko this should be something possible with #GreaseMonkey or similar #Plugins

The current @FirefoxNightly has a bit of a transparency issue with #DarkReader plugin.

I'm looking forward to the next build that fixes it :)