Dark mode does not work any more

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Description of the issue:
dark mode does not work in the new version 1.75.175
dark mode always worked well in previous versions.

Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.

Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):

Expected result:

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Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):
OS is LMDE6, Brave version is 1.75.175

Additional Information:

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Can you please provide additional details about the issue? What exactly is the behavior when it “doesn’t work”? Are you saying that the settings aren’t applied? Or are the colors off? Or some other issue?

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The tabs are not dark, as desired and set.
Obviously the ‘dark’ setting does not work at all.
Otherwise the tabs content looks good (but without dark mode).

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s. display setting (german: dunkel = dark)

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Can you please go here: brave://settings/manageProfile and check to see whether or not you’ve picked a different theme color by chance?

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@Mattches from the screenshot they shared, aren’t they using custom theme?
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I’m guessing it’s the custom theme they have added which is the problem. Despite having Dark chosen, it’s not working on content because of it. I had a similar issue but it went away when I removed whatever theme I had at the time.

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Changing any of the theme color differences in the profile thing only seemed to barely change the exterior part of the browser. It didn’t change anything on the settings area. I think they are trying to say settings should be dark, such as:

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Maybe try an updated version of Brave and see if that works for you:

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@Saoiray yeah not sure how I missed that.
@pileva2 definitely update to the latest build (1.75.178) and see if this resolves the issue. However, it’s likely the “Design slate” theme that is being applied causing the color discrepancy. If updating doesn’t work, try disabling it and see if that resolves the issue.

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How can I update from 1.75.175 to 1.75.178 in LMDE6?
I have never changed a theme.

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I installed 1.75.178. The dark mode works now.

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1.75.178 works better, but there are still conflicts with apps that have their own dark mode control.
But for now i am satisfied. Thanks for the support.

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Shield settings to Agressively block trackers and ads and or Agressively block fingerprinting caused my pages to ignore system or dark.

Kinda simimilar in FF enable ContainerTabGroups privacy.resistFingerprinting will have the same effect lots of white all night…

Just set these to block level instead maybe fiddle with set to system then back to dark, pretty sure your Brave will be purring as usual

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type this in the address bar
“brave://flags”
Find " Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents" and enable it.

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