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You can now enable dark mode for Chrome on Windows, here is how

Last updated on January 3, 2019 By Venkat

We’ve reported Google Chrome on Window 1o to get native dark mode support, seems it as if the feature has been already landed in Chrome Canary and you can now run Canary with a command-line flag to force dark mode for Chrome browser on Windows, here is how.

Chrome with dark mode enabled on Windows

Enable dark mode for Chrome on Windows

1. Download and install Google Chrome Canary

2. Right click on its desktop shortcut and select properties,

3. In the Target Field, after chrome.exe after giving a space, add --force-dark-mode, click Apply to save changes.

force dark mode flag Chrome Canary Windows

4. Run Chrome to see appear dark in the UI, check screenshots below of how Chrome’s menu, Settings and download pages look with dark mode enabled for the first time.

Chrome Settings dark

chrome tab right click menu dark

Chrome downloads dark

You need to remove the command-line flag added above to see Chrome with the normal default theme. Do note the dark mode is still in development and the final version may look different to the current one. Thanks to 9to5google for finding the dark mode flag.

Filed Under: Google Chrome, News Tagged With: Dark theme

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