Google is working on a system-wide dark mode for Android Q, and that includes the Chrome browser. Rumors have been circulating that Google has already been testing dark mode for the browser. Now, it seems that the feature is not limited to just the browser interface, but is also being applied to pages. Does it really work? You can try it out for yourself by downloading Chrome Canary from the Google Play store on your Android smartphone.
As first reported by 9to5Google, Chrome Canary (v74.0.3718.3) now has a new feature flag – #enable-android-web-contents-dark-mode – that can enable dark mode on websites. This only appears to affect light backgrounds, not menus and other important design elements on websites.
In some tests conducted, it was observed that dark mode affected certain design elements, such as the colors in the Gadgets 360 logo.
You can download Chrome Canary by going to chrome://f flags to enable this setting. It's obviously still in beta and results may vary depending on the site you visit. Note, of course, that the Canary build is not a stable release, so it's not recommended as your primary browser.
Google Chrome Canary 70 for Mac has been found to work in line with macOS Mojave's dark mode. A Google Chrome engineer has also confirmed that dark mode is coming to the Windows version of the browser.
This new version, however, is in line with one of the new features of Android Q, a system-wide dark mode. Other manufacturers have rushed to implement the feature on their own, as is the case with Samsung's One UI and MIUI 10.
