# Dark Light Modes

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/dark-light-modes/90331>\
**Category:** Themes\
**Created:** [December 16, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/dark-light-modes/90331 "2021-12-16T18:28:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![MaDonnasPersonas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/madonnaspersonas/32/21010_2.png) [@MaDonnasPersonas](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/MaDonnasPersonas)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/dark-light-modes/90331/1 "2021-12-16T18:28:51Z")

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I am getting a lot of emails and comments regarding dark and light modes. Users seem to think that a theme designer has control over the New Page/Home Page color. Can someone give me a good answer? I, too like a dark New/Home Page. Perhaps theme designers could get the choice of that when they submit a theme or is there a Firefox setting (I can’t find one) that we can either use a dark or light mode? I hate when I can’t answer a users questions to their satisfaction so I am hoping someone can help me out on this. Please…

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**Author:** ![freaktechnik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/freaktechnik/32/37766_2.png) [@freaktechnik](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/freaktechnik)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/dark-light-modes/90331/2 "2021-12-17T13:25:34Z")

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The colors of the new tab page can indeed be controlled by a theme: [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/theme](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/theme) (look for `ntp_background` and `ntp_text`)

However I think only Firefox Color currently exposes this in a theme editor UI, and not the theme editor on [addons.mozilla.org](http://addons.mozilla.org).

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**Author:** ![MaDonnasPersonas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/madonnaspersonas/32/21010_2.png) [@MaDonnasPersonas](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/MaDonnasPersonas)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/dark-light-modes/90331/3 "2021-12-17T17:19:41Z")

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Thank you. That isn’t going to help the usual theme user, but it gives me an explanation for it. Perhaps Mozilla will add the Home/New Page color addition to the item that theme designers can set? Probably just wishful thinking, but you can always wish!

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**Author:** ![Gregoryagogo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/gregoryagogo/32/54130_2.png) [@Gregoryagogo](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/Gregoryagogo)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/dark-light-modes/90331/4 "2022-01-12T15:44:36Z")

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I noticed with Mozilla Firefox’s recent update, my favorite theme suddenly is in dark mode with pop up windows and certain webpages I go to, like youtube… I don’t like dark mode…

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**Author:** ![StoryMaker-Christian-Echidna](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/storymaker-christian-echidna/32/30630_2.png) [@StoryMaker-Christian-Echidna](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/StoryMaker-Christian-Echidna)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 6:47am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/dark-light-modes/90331/5 "2022-01-22T06:47:48Z")

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Yeah this is really beginning to annoy me, a lot of themes that don’t look very dark at all are being considered dark simply because they have white text, and this is sending a signal to a lot of websites such as YouTube or Twitter to turn on their dark mode, which I don’t like as I am not a fan of dark mode for most sites. I guess I can fix it for the themes I’ve made, but for themes I haven’t made, I can’t. Really frustrating. ☹ It seems like a pain to manually set all sites to not use dark mode, so I guess I will just have to use themes that are recognized as light for now. PLEASE make a feature to manually set the browser’s ability to send a signal to dictate if the theme of a site should be light or dark separate from the browser’s theme.