Microsoft Edge has brought the option to force a dark mode on web pages even if they don’t support it, giving it another feature to tempt people from Google Chrome.
Based on the same engine that Chrome’s dark mode uses, the Edge version will change the background color, text, and other elements of a website on the page, effectively forcing a dark mode on a site. For people who surf the web a lot at night, this forced dark mode will make browsing web pages less eye strain.
Google Chrome also used to force a dark mode on websites, which was a feature of its experimental Canary browser that users had to enable. Google has since removed the option.
But the phone site MobiGyaan discovered that such feature is still in Edge browser. However, it also has to be enabled forcibly, as it does not exist in a simple dropdown or submenu in the browser.
How to enable forced dark mode in Microsoft Edge
Our sister site TechRadar noted that to do this you will need to type edge: // flags / # enable-force-dark in the Edge address bar, which then offers you an option to enable “Force dark mode for web content”. Once enabled, you need to restart Edge and then forced dark mode will be activated.
Once it’s up and running you’ll notice that when you visit a site Edge will alter the color scheme to work with darker tones. The effects are varied, with TechRadar reporting that sometimes forced dark mode will affect everything on a web page, and other times it will leave some elements, such as the color of the images, unchanged.
It is a small addition that many people might overlook. But the fact that a forced dark mode is in Edge and no longer in Chrome might tempt some people from Google’s browser to Microsoft’s web browsing app.
