Brave works fine in dark mode in Windows 10, but when I set it for dark mode in Windows 11, it does not go into dark mode, just stays in the default mode. I’ve turned off fingerprinting protection in Windows 11 computer.
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Thank you for reaching out.
When you change the setting in Settings --> Appearance, nothing at all happens? What is your Windows OS theme set to? If you change the Brave theme to Same as system does anything change?
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Thanks for your suggestions, but no, it doesn’t change. My W11 OS theme is set to dark and the Brave (and Chrome) browser is set to dark as well. The Brave browser itself may be operating as dark per the appearance of the settings menu & screens, but all tabs are light. In my W10 machine, when set to dark, the tabs are in dark mode also. I did try the ‘same as system’ but nothing changed.
Can you show me the way the browser appears right now with Appearance set to Dark?
Sure. The picture entitled “11” is from the W11 machine and the second photo entitled “10” is from the W10 machine. Same version of the Brave Browser, same website, CNN.com.
If the number 10 or 11 is not visible, the W10 photo is the one with a digital clock at the bottom.
@CharlieATL,
The browser theme only comprises elements of the browser itself — not the websites in which you’re visiting. So nothing is technically wrong with the Win11 image.
You can force dark web content however by using a flag:
- Visit
brave://flags - Search for a flag called #enable-force-dark:
- Set teh flag to
Enabledand relaunch the browser when prompted
Interesting, thank you, I’ll try the flags solution on my W11 machine.
Why do you think it presents all of the tabs as dark in my W10 machine? Could this be a W11 OS configuration of some sort? Also, I just opened up my W10 laptop, and the Brave browser behaves the same as it does on my W11 machine, i.e. cannot get anything but the browser itself to be dark. A cyber mystery!
@CharlieATL,
Note that some sites have a setting that detects what you browser and/or system theme is and will render with a theme that matches, but not all sites. For example, you can set Youtube to Device theme, which will mimic whatever them your device has set. IGN.com also has an Automatic setting which will mimic whatever your system preferences are set to.
However, n4g.com (a relatively popular gaming site I frequent) does not have this setting and as such, will not mimc your browser or system theme settings:
So this feature is site dependent. What the flag I mentioned above does is attempt to force sites to render using a dark theme, which gets around sites that don’t have this setting, or sites that would otherwise have you manually set the site’s appearance to “dark”.
Got it!
I found the switch you suggested earlier and it worked perfectly on my Windows 11 PC. Thanks very much and sorry for the late response but I got busy the last couple of days.
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No worries — glad that works for you.
Have a wonderful day.