Mozilla is working on light and dark themes for the upcoming Firefox Proton Interface. The themes called “Proton Light” and “Proton Dark’ are available in the Add-ons Manager in Firefox 88 Nightly.
After Australis, Photon, Mozilla is doing another visual refresh for Firefox.
Recently, we covered some mockups and told you tabs, New Tab Page, and hamburger menu and other elements received Proton changes.
Apart from these, Firefox built-in themes also change.
Firefox comes with Default, Light, dark, and Firefox alpenglow themes.
Now in addition to these, Proton Light and Proton Dark themes landed in Firefox Nightly.
These are temporary Nightly-only themes and won’t get into release with those names.
Instead, the so-called forks of light and dark themes will be developed for Proton and merged into main themes when Mozilla launches UI changes.
The aim is not to disturb users who have not enabled Proton in Firefox.
” The idea is to fork the built-in dark theme and do the development for Proton Dark in that fork so as not to disrupt folks that don’t have proton enabled. Then when we reach a ship release vehicle, to merge those changes into the main-line dark theme, and remove the separate proton dark theme”.
Enable Proton Dark or Proton Light theme in Firefox
- Launch Firefox
- Click on Menu > Extensions and themes
- Select Themes
- Click enable button for Proton Dark or Proton Light.
As of now, you don’t see any changes as these are the same as light and dark. But going forward, you may see the difference.
Which built-in or third-party theme do you use in Firefox? Let us know in the comments below.
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