I am suggesting to add a built in dark mode to addons.mozilla.org
Thank you.
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I second that, my eyes are dying in agony every time I search for an extension…
I cannot freaking believe this hasn’t been implemented yet. I saw a topic from 2022 requesting this as well.
Honestly every site should have dark mode as an option by now, available without creating an account, but it’s especially insulting that Firefox’s add-on site can’t be altered by Dark Reader or similar extensions, to no fault of those guys’s own.
Please for the love of god, I know Mozilla is doing like 8 thousand things at once but maybe just have some web designers and developers throw together some dark themes one domain at a time?
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I think the addons team is heavily understaffed and there is simply no time for “cosmetic upgrades”. 
Also, the fact that there is a “workaround” likely reduces the priority.
If you are asking what’s the workaround - it’s the “Dark Reader” addon that works great, but you need to switch it to “modern design”, then enable some secret settings in it’s settings page, then in the about:config page enable privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager and then also remove the "addons.mozilla.org" domain from the extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains list.
NOTE that this workaround will pose a slight security risk since installed addons with <all_urls> permission will be able to access the addons page (in other words, addons that didn’t worked on that page will work there now).
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Ugh, that’s so frustrating but unfortunately if that’s true that’s out of our control and, to some extent, the developers at Mozilla. I hope they treat their employed/contracted developers well because they certainly deserve it.
I was wondering about the Dark Reader thing because somebody else had mentioned a work around but I couldn’t find anything on it in the threads I looked up on this topic. Perhaps I should have searched “Dark Reader” in hindsight.
What exactly does this setting change, and will it affect privacy or access to Mozilla/Firefox pages for other extensions, or is it too trivial to warrant concern?
The Dark Reader addon is great, it makes all pages dark.
But it’s not 100% perfect, sometimes the style is not great, and on very complex pages it can slow down page load.
But it should be 100% safe, since it has the “Recommended” badge:
BTW: here is the setting you need to enable:
Regarding the Firefox about:config changes - it shouldn’t affect privacy. But theoretically it opens another “attack vector” for potential malicious addons.
But practically, nobody would program a malware addon that targets Firefox users with this about:config changes enabled, because that’s like 0.00001% users. 
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It worked! You’re a lifesaver; thank you for explaining this so clearly. Hopefully others with the same complaint will find your posts too
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