Do you by any know an extension for Firefox based browsers that doesn’t slow them so much as original extension?
One of my devices is really slow (5 yo tablet with eMMC 
) and using Fennec or Ironfox is pain on it. Two smartphones are bit better, but noticeably faster. UFS, better SoCs…
Is there a faster extension for dark mode than Dark Reader?
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El hecho es tal y como lo percibes: el add-on Dark Reader es eficaz, pero ralentiza demasiado la experiencia de navegación con cualquier «Firefox».
Prueba con el add-on Super Dark Mode 5.0.2.5 a ver qué tal. Es el que uso, sobretodo, para tratar de leer textos en pantalla de forma más relajada. Funciona bastante bien y, aunque no sea perfecto, considero que no frena la navegación (admitiendo la comparación con Dark Reader).
In English: / En inglés:
The fact is exactly as you perceive it: the Dark Reader add-on is effective, but it slows down the browsing experience too much with any Firefox.
Try the Super Dark Mode 5.0.2.5 add-on and see how it goes. It’s the one I use, especially to try to read text on the screen more comfortably. It works quite well, and while it’s not perfect, I don’t think it slows down browsing (allowing for a comparison with Dark Reader).
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I second it. I used it very often and even on newer phones or high resource phones too it slows down the scrolling or switching. Moreover, at times it freezes FF & forks if there are number of tabs open.
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Tried Super Dark Reader, Dark Mode,Turn off the lights, Night eye, but UltimaDark seems really work fastest and reliable of all of them.
Tested on browserbench.org, speedometer, where the order of speed was: Iceraven, Fennec, Ironfox - from fastest to slowest.
What worked really fastest was DDG with it’s built in dark mode. What you think about moving to that browser?
All Fennec, Iceraven, Ironfox were 2-4 slower in that test.
DDG Lite if you want to use, okay, but do not go for full ddg. It is not safe. You can find more about it on this forum as well as several other places.
Haven’t found anything of DDG lite browser, only of their ddg lite search engine.
Ahh yes. My bad. I confused between the browser & engine.
BTW, you can use Lightning Browser (by Anthony) or any other lighter browser tbvh. You can even use a scraper as an engine and not just DDG Lite in itself.
My little but time consuming inquiry about the speed of browsers with dark mode on 5yo tablet Lenovo Yoga Tab with Android 13, LineageOS.
All *fox had only uBlock and UltimaDark enabled, except DDG, which doesn’t need it.
In order from slowest to fastest.
Ironfox
Fennec
Iceraven
DDG.
Ironfox is so “secure” that it didn’t even let me install extension and run the test without disabling some hardening features.
My conclusion is that securing browsers goes towards some like locking up oneself in home jail, because going out you may hurt yourself, when you slip on the ice, stumble and fall…