{"id":5324,"date":"2022-10-21T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T04:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2022-10-21T10:09:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T04:39:28","slug":"disable-dark-theme-in-the-private-browsing-mode-in-firefox-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/disable-dark-theme-in-the-private-browsing-mode-in-firefox-106\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable Dark Theme in the Private Browsing mode in Firefox 106"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people like Dark themes for their apps but I am not one of them. For me the Dark mode strains my eyes more so I usually disable it as soon as possible. In the latest Firefox update (v106), Firefox changed a bunch of defaults and one of the changes is that when you open a window in incognito mode it uses the Dark theme by default. As per the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/privacy-online-just-got-easier-with-todays-firefox-release\/\">release notes<\/a> this is a conscious decision:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We also added a modern look and feel with a new logo and updated it so Private Browsing mode now defaults to dark theme, making it easier to know when you are in Private Browsing mode. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The dark theme really annoys me so I started looking for ways to disable it. Unfortunately, it can&#8217;t be disabled without having to change my default Theme (which is to use the System Defaults) which I didn&#8217;t want to do and a quick internet search didn&#8217;t return any useful results. So I decided to check out the <em>about:config<\/em> section to see if there is a hidden setting and lo-behold it was there. A quick change disabled the theme for the Private browsing mode and things were back to normal. <\/p>\n<p>The steps to disable the dark theme in incognito mode are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Type <em>about:config<\/em> in the address bar and press Enter.<\/li>\n<li>A warning page may appear. Click Accept the Risk and Continue to go to the about:config page. <\/li>\n<li>Search for &#8220;theme&#8221; in the Search preference name box at the top of the page and you will see an entry for &#8220;browser.theme.dark-private-windows&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Double click on &#8220;True&#8221; for the entry to change the value to false.<\/li>\n<li>The entry should look like the following. Then you can close the tab and you are done. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot_20221020_102922.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"94\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot_20221020_102922.png 800w, https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot_20221020_102922-300x35.png 300w, https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot_20221020_102922-768x90.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To revert the change, just repeat the steps and set the value back to True.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people like Dark themes for their apps but I am not one of them. For me the Dark mode strains my eyes more so I usually disable it as soon as possible. In the latest Firefox update (v106), Firefox changed a bunch of defaults and one of the changes is that when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9,24,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","category-computer-hintstips","category-knowledgebase","category-techie-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5330,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions\/5330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}