Google has released Chrome 73 for Mac and Windows. The biggest feature in this update is the dark mode, which was available in beta builds since some time. Chrome 73 also includes a number of other new features which include support for Progressive Web Apps (PWA) support, hardware media keys, auto picture-in-picture, enhanced spell check, updates to Sync, and a bunch of new developer focused features. Jan 03, 2019 Yesterday, we reported that Google Chrome is set to get a native dark mode on Windows 10 and today users have discovered a simple trick to enable Google Chrome dark mode on Windows.
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Chrome 73 Dark Mode Windows 10 On Startup
© Photo: Mark Lennihan, APPhoto: Mark Lennihan, APFinally, Windows 10 users will have access to Chrome’s official Dark Mode.On Tuesday, Google announced that it would begin rolling out its stable version of Chrome 74 for Windows, Mac and Linux in the coming weeks. Along with the update comes Dark Mode support for Windows 10 users that’s been available on macOS since last month with the rollout of Chrome 73.You’ll want to make sure Windows 10 is up to date.
Though Chrome automatically updates itself, you can force it by clicking the three little dots in the upper right corner of the browser, hovering over “help”, and clicking “about Chrome”.© 2018 ChesnotPARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 23: In this photo illustration, the logos of the applications, Google, Gmail, Chrome, Google Maps, You Tube, Drive, Google photos, Chrome, Plays Films and TV, Hangouts and Play Music are displayed on the screen of a tablet on October 23, 2018 in Paris, France. After being fined 4.3 billion euros last June for a dominant position in research with its Android mobile operating system, Google has decided to comply by charging for its applications and the Play Store to manufacturers who want to sell their mobile devices in Europe and this without integrating Google Search and Google Chrome. From October 29, Google will implement a fairly complex license system for manufacturers who sell Android-powered mobile devices in Europe and want to install the Play Store and its other applications. ((Photo Illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images)As ZDNet notes, there is, unfortunately, no simple switch to enable the support.
As with macOS, for those Windows 10 users who already have Dark Mode enabled on their system, Chrome should match itself to their operating system setting. In other words, you have to go full Dark Mode or nothing.According to a Community Manager on the Chrome Help forum, Google is reportedly only “rolling out this feature to a small number of Chrome M74 users now” ahead of an eventual wider rollout.
Chrome 73 Dark Mode Windows 10 From Command Prompt
If this is the case for you, one commenter suggested a workaround for force-enabling the setting:- open the “Properties” of a Chrome shortcut- in the “Target” field, after “C:Program FilesGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe” ADD “‐‐force‐dark‐mode” (Without the quotation marks)- “Apply” and “OK”Some have noted that a single dash before “-force-dark-mode” works for force-enabling the Dark Mode setting. At the time of writing neither single nor double dashes worked for us, but it seems others have had success. It’s possible that you’ll have better luck.© 2018 ChesnotPARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 23: In this photo illustration, the logos of the applications, Google Maps, Google and Gmail are displayed on the screen of a tablet on October 23, 2018 in Paris, France. After being fined 4.3 billion euros last June for a dominant position in research with its Android mobile operating system, Google has decided to comply by charging for its applications and Play Store to manufacturers who want to sell their mobile devices in Europe, and this without integrating Google Search and Google Chrome.
From October 29, Google will implement a fairly complex license system for manufacturers who sell Android-powered mobile devices in Europe and want to install the Play Store and its other applications. (Photo Illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images)Dark Mode in Windows 10, as with macOS, mimics Chrome’s Incognito mode. The theme will change the theme of a new tab, the Bookmarks bar, and the options menu, according to Tech Times. As with the macOS version, the Dark Mode does not appear to extend to Settings landing pages in Windows.© Jaap Arriens/NurPhotoThe Chrome browser app for mobile devices is seen on the screen of a portable device on December 6, 2017.