

Microsoft also again reiterated, as in the document, that Metro browsers will only work if set as the default browser. To go alongside this announcement, Microsoft released a document titled “Developing a Metro style enabled desktop browser.” One of the requirements is for the browser to have a Metro and non-Metro version, to work in both sides of Windows 8. Windows 8 categorises these browsers as “Metro style enabled desktop browsers.” As is apparent now, this category was created because other developers are allowed to create Metro browsers. Bondy, Microsoft revealed that there would be a new category for third-party Metro browsers. Also note that if you update the chrome app, the changes will be gone, since the file will be overwritten.In addition to Google developing a browser for Windows 8, Mozilla confirmed last week that they would also be developing a browser for the platform.Īlong with the announcement made by Mozilla developer Brian R. If that doesn't work, rebooting your Ubuntu system should do the job.įor me rebooting my Ubuntu 18.04 system worked.

Once you have done these changes, simply try restarting chrome. Search for Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stableĪnd add the dark mode flag after it like this: Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable -force-dark-mode Search for Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %UĪnd replace it with: Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U -force-dark-mode If not, open the file in a text editor of your choice sudo -H gedit /usr/share/applications/sktopĪll you have to do is search for two lines and add a dark mode flag in front of them. If you use GNOME desktop, simply run the command below which opens up the required file in editable format. search for dark and you should see this option Force Dark Mode for Web Contents just enable it and relaunch chrome.įor those who don't have the above option under flags To enable dark mode on Ubuntu, you need to edit the sktop file.

87 (Official Build) (64-bit) you can easliy turn chrome's internal pages to dark mode,its under chrome flags by default
