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This Flag Enables Dark Mode on Chromebook Settings App

October 24, 2020 by Dinsan Francis | Updated: October 24, 2020 1 Comment

A newly added Chrome OS flag enables dark mode on WebUI, which includes Settings, History, and Downloads, etc.

WebUI dark mode

Google is sowly making progress with Dark Mode or Dark Theme for Chromebooks. Last week we saw an early version of the theme switcher toggle.

Chromebook Dark Mode – First Look

This week, Google has added a new flag to Chrome OS:

WebUI dark mode: Allows dark mode usage in WebUI. Note that this does not necessary enable dark mode, which is enabled via the #enable-force-dark flag.

What is WebUI?

“WebUI” is a term used to loosely describe parts of Chrome’s UI implemented with web technologies (i.e. HTML, CSS, JavaScript).”

Examples:

  • Settings
  • History
  • Downloads

As you can see in the video above, the theme switcher does not do anything to these pages at the moment. However, this new flag brings dark mode support to Settings, History, and Downloads as well.

It is safe to assume that we will see dark mode applied to other WebUI based system apps which are work-in-progress.

Screenshots

Here are updated Settings/History/Download pages with Dark theme enabled.

Filed Under: Chromebook

About Dinsan Francis

Content Strategist and Digital Minimalist. Loves testing new Chromebook features and writing about them. Favorite Chrome OS Channel is Canary. | Twitter

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  1. Guy DÉRIDET says

    November 4, 2020 at 3:26 pm

    The complete dark mode is endly arrived with last developer version ! Works fine with no apparent bugs. Just to validate all dark options in chrome://flags
    Here is a screen photo of my tv connected to my Asus 3 Chromebox
    The link to the photo on my drive : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-4QXdOpAyx15ZCFTTo3LkUD02leEMJX6/view?usp=sharing

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