This dark theme was created to make it easy to find the active tab and make it easy to read non-active tabs.

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Version
1.1
Update
July 1, 2012
Size
169KiB
Developer
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Users
111
Rating
3.46875 ★
Manifest Version
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Languages Support
English (United States)
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Dark Matters Theme

This theme was created only after trying most of the other top rated 'dark themes' and not finding any that were suitable to my requirements. Either the active tab was hard to find, the inactive tabs were hard to read or both. This theme was created to resolve those issues. If you use Chrome a lot, particularly if you're a programmer or power-user, you will hopefully appreciate this theme that is easy on the eyes while enabling you to find the active tab quickly and read the inactive tabs clearly.

Update v1.1 Fixed background color on lower right 'toolbar'. (The URL when loading is now readable.)
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Source Manifest.json

{
"update_url":"http://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx",
"version":"1.1",
"name":"Dark Matters",
"description":"This dark theme was created to make it easy to find the active tab and make it easy to read non-active tabs.",
"theme":{"images":{"theme_frame":"images\\/theme_frame.png",
"theme_toolbar":"images\\/theme_toolbar.png",
"theme_tab_background":"images\\/theme_tab_background.png"},
"colors":{"frame":[66,116,201],
"frame_inactive":[161,182,228],
"frame_incognito":[83,106,139],
"frame_incognito_inactive":[126,139,156],
"toolbar":[0,0,0],
"tab_text":[249,255,87],
"tab_background_text":[224,224,224],
"bookmark_text":[18,50,114],
"ntp_background":[0,0,0],
"ntp_text":[249,255,87],
"button_background":[0,0,0,0]},
"properties":{"ntp_background_alignment":"bottom",
"ntp_background_repeat":"no-repeat"},
"tints":{"buttons":[0,0,1],
"frame":[-1,-1,-1],
"frame_inactive":[-1,-1,0.75],
"frame_incognito":[-1,0.2,0.35],
"frame_incognito_inactive":[-1,0.3,0.6],
"background_tab":[-1,0.5,0.75]}}}
"
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User reviews

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Pascal Rutgers (ID: 000000b087f104c0) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 12/05/2021 Nice Nice ,,, ;-) ***** Thanks dev. I can see clearly now,,

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samuel santiago (ID: 00000013d208bd92) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 04/15/2021 how do i uninstall that

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Steven Christall (ID: 0000000f12f229c2) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 05/13/2019 Simple and works. Contrast again! I can actually tell which tab is active

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King Flex (ID: 000000795aabeb4d) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 12/23/2018 I like the idea and effort. If the colors can be customized, let me know.

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Cave Johnson (ID: 0000000294d4a902) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 04/22/2017 It changed my bookmarks bar text to dark blue. Unreadable now. Otherwise it would be perfect. But I cant use it like this.