Chrome 74 Is Now Available Though Not Too Exciting For Linux Users

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Chrome 74 Is Now Available Though Not Too Exciting For Linux Users

While Windows 10 users are gushing over Chrome finally introducing a "dark mode" for the web browser, on the Linux front there are no dramatic user-facing changes but just a lot of continued lower-level improvements for this cross-platform web browser...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-74-Released

[Hi-Angel]

To dispel possible confusion from the formulation: from what I googled, dark mode isn't specific to any platform. E.g. here're examples for enabling it on GNU/Linux https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comm...mode_on_linux/

[waxhead]

Why if this dark mode even a feature? If Chrome did use a standard user interface you could have set the colours globally. User interfaces have *not* improved since the late 80's / early 90's... And everyone seems to reinvent the wheel again and again..... Sigh....

[aufkrawall]

If Chrome did use a standard user interface...

You can select GTK3 UI in the options for quite some time now, and it then uses system theming (e.g. dark themes)...

[Azrael5]

What about AV1 codec support?

[horstderheld]

Chromium removed the theme option to have a dark omnibar earlier this year... So it's back again with dark mode and since 74, chromium got brighter fonts for menus.

[Hi-Angel]

Why if this dark mode even a feature? If Chrome did use a standard user interface you could have set the colours globally. User interfaces have *not* improved since the late 80's / early 90's... And everyone seems to reinvent the wheel again and again..... Sigh....

Well, clearly just another theme wouldn't have gotten attention, there're thousands of them. As I understand, the Dark Mode changes appearance of sites you visit, it's irrelevant to GTK or whatever else one could've thought from the title.

[Hi-Angel]

Meanwhile, I'm wondering if Dark Theme is something that gonna get into Chrome-74-or-higher based QtWebEngine. I'd try it out of curiosity with Qutebrowser I'm using.

[dlq84]

What about AV1 codec support?

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5729898442260480

[uid313]

Why if this dark mode even a feature? If Chrome did use a standard user interface you could have set the colours globally. User interfaces have *not* improved since the late 80's / early 90's... And everyone seems to reinvent the wheel again and again..... Sigh....

Dark mode is not for the widgets and browser UI.
Dark mode is a new CSS query so that websites can define how their websites will look under dark mode.
So you can have a website have black text on white background normally, but when it detects the user is using dark mode, the website is rendered with white text on black background.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=prefers-color-scheme