Release: OLED Mode extension for Chrome
Published on: 2025-08-17 21:14:17
Chrome OLED Mode Extension
*Chrome OLED Mode adds a pitch black theme to websites, making them high contrast and easy to read at night.
This is a resurrection of the Super Dark Mode project which got taken down from the Chrome Web Store for unknown reasons and then abandoned by it's original developer-decompiled, refactored/documented and improved upon. In my opinion, it functions way better than the popular extension 'Dark Reader'.
Implementation Details
This extension is a static browser-side script which leverages React's dynamic rendering and live component updating mechanisms. At runtime, it waits for the DOM to finish loading, then injects content into a dedicated element (#__oled). Using ReactDOM.createRoot, it mounts a themed layout component that wraps the core UI, enabling declarative reactivity and efficient DOM updates. The layout system, sourced from @plasmo-static-common/react, applies a custom OLED-optimised stylesheet. Parcel handles bundling and dependency resoluti
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