Recently we reported Google has begun working to improve incognito’s dark mode in Chrome. The new incognito window with the new change, will ignore Operating system light mode and other customizations and stays dark forever. Chrome Canary received a new flag to turn other menus in Incognito to dark as well today.
Chrome comes with plenty of customization options built in. You’ve various backgrounds and color themes to choose from in the New tab Customize menu.
Chrome Web Store offers themes including published by the Chrome team to make the Google browser look more beautiful.
You can apply these customizations to normal windows only, but not incognito windows.
Intentionally, Chrome uses a different theme for the incognito mode to keep it separate from the normal browsing mode.
While the address bar, tab bar, and toolbar are dark, the menus aren’t. The app menu, context menu, and other elements still appear white. The chromium team decided to address this:
Going forward, Chrome applies dark mode for incognito User Interface by default and doesn’t consider Windows or Mac device light mode and other changes related to customization.
With the change, secondary menus and dialogs respect dark mode when a user opens the incognito window
You can put the above dark mode changes to Incognito when you enable the following flag.
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Here’s how to enable dark mode for the Incognito mode in Chrome
- Ensure you’re using Chrome Canary 91.0.4471.4, open it
- Visit chrome://flags
- Search for Incognito mode and enable “Allow widgets to inherit native theme from its parent widget”
- Restart the browser
After that, when you select the “New Incognito Window” option in the menu, everything excluding web content will appear as dark.
Incognito brand consistency
Generally, theme and customizations apply to Chrome normal mode, but not incognito.
To keep incognito consistency in desktop, Chrome to “remove any theme or background customization done by the user on the Incognitor UI”
This change requires “Incognito brand consistency for desktop” to be enabled.
The dark mode brought by Google to Chrome when you open incognito may please your eyes and save battery as well. Let us know if you liked it or not in the comments below.
Update: The Chrome incognito page has received dark mode across the page and its menus out of the box without needing to enable any flags mentioned. above.
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