Charcoal: Dark Mode for Messenger

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Extension status: Featured
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Description from extension meta

Unofficial Messenger dark mode. Easily swap between dark and light mode.

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Description from store

Use Charcoal to experience Messenger (messenger.com) in dark mode. Toggling dark mode with any theme is easy: click on the Messenger icon on the top left of the web page, and set your preference.

Features:
Messenger icon toggle on the top left of the web page to access preferences.
Choose between 3 themes: Charcoal, Midnight, and Deep Blue.
Change dark or light appearance whenever you want, or set dark mode based on your device's setting.

Latest reviews

Shanniah Honda 2024-08-23: !(My opinion)! this is actually good and my eyes since my eyes hurts when i see like smth (Something) bright
David N 2024-08-05: Used to be great but now looks terrible. Cant see most text as its pale on white most of the time.
Capt. Calcium 2024-08-01: Great, but it doesn't work half of the time and the left side of the screen turns a blinding white
Justin Block 2024-05-29: EDIT: The "react", "Reply", and "more" buttons seem to have more contrast now! I have zero complaints. FIVE STARS! Wonderful extension! I would like to mention that recently the "react", "reply", and "more" options are difficult to see lately. I assume FB changed something, but if that could be resolved I'd be a very happy camper.
Matthew Stromberg 2024-05-22: Such an improvement, 5/5 stars! Only feedback is that the chat icon is too dark to see in this mode, but you can still clearly see the word "chat" so it's not too bad
Ivan Malinovski 2024-05-19: It's amazing and works great on Messenger.com per 19/05/2024 - should've just been included in Messenger in the first place.
Jonathan Pineault 2024-05-16: May 16th 2024 - EDIT The extension stopped working preperly again, everything is white! Hopefully it gets fixed soon. Jan 12th 2024 - EDIT The extension stopped working properly today, the background of conversations is bright white unfortunately. Meta is probably messing with the rendering of conversations... I hope it gets fixed well! (I just can't understand why a dark mode is not proposed by Facebook Messenger itself!) Oct 30th 2023 - EDIT The extension was fixed!!! Thanks for helping my eyes ;) Oct 24th 2023 This extension was good until few days ago... Now the messages I receive are white and (almost) unreadable! Maybe it's becacuse of a Google Chrome update???
Jonathan Pineault 2024-05-16: May 16th 2024 - EDIT The extension stopped working preperly again, everything is white! Hopefully it gets fixed soon. Jan 12th 2024 - EDIT The extension stopped working properly today, the background of conversations is bright white unfortunately. Meta is probably messing with the rendering of conversations... I hope it gets fixed well! (I just can't understand why a dark mode is not proposed by Facebook Messenger itself!) Oct 30th 2023 - EDIT The extension was fixed!!! Thanks for helping my eyes ;) Oct 24th 2023 This extension was good until few days ago... Now the messages I receive are white and (almost) unreadable! Maybe it's becacuse of a Google Chrome update???
Lubomir Lukco 2024-05-16: With the extension on Messenger does not even load.
Thuận Huỳnh Minh 2024-05-08: RIP extension
Paul Michael Negado 2024-05-03: 5 Stars because it gets the job done. Thank you!!
Tsuna 2024-04-01: Very good extension if you don't want to download the dedicated messenger app. This extension does its job perfectly.
Cameron 2024-03-31: Bug seems to be fixed now - my preferred method of making messenger less blindingly bright - how this isn't a default option is beyond me
Archen Dodson 2024-03-21: Yall need to relax. This has happened before (the extension not working because Facebook updated messenger again) and the developer fixed it. Give the dude time. This is a free extension he developed and likely needs a few days to not only see these reviews but also figure out a way around making it work with messenger's new update (which they do frequently).
Adam Pliszka 2024-03-20: Here's a fix for the white incoming message background problem: -Delete or disable this extension -Install the Stylus extension -When the Messenger website is opened, open Stylus, click "find styles", sort by installs -Choose a style - "Messenger Dark", the most popular one, works out of the box -If you want to use a style that doesn't work right now but you like it more, you can fix it yourself by editing the style - search for the line containing "chat-incoming-message-bubble-background-color" and add "!important" at the end of the line before the semicolon. The line should look like this "--chat-incoming-message-bubble-background-color: #303030!important;" -Stylus also has the advantage that you can find a style that suits you best, or if you're a power user you can modify the colors yourself to your liking
Alvi Sheikh 2024-03-20: please dev fix the bug. Now the chat bubbles is pitch white. For that cant real the message because the message is also in white and for that it blends in with the chat bubble.
Josue Ruiz 2024-03-20: The app was great in pre-2024. Recently new changes in the app cause chat bubbles to come up white and it makes this extension unusable. 😔
Parantar, Prince Marc L. 2024-03-20: Chats are white, I can't read them.
Sebum Song 2024-03-20: I've been using it well ever since 2020. Does no longer hurts my eyes and honestly can't use messenger without this theme. But recently I've noticed that every time I apply dark theme, the background of the chats just turns into white, which eventually makes me unable to see the messages they sent me. I'm pretty sure this is a bug and I hope this to be fixed as soon as possible.
Trisha Gonzales 2024-03-20: i thought it was ok now (after removing it for a few months) but the bug that makes the bg of the chat bubbles turn to white is back after a week of using it again. i thought it was only on MS Edge but turns out it is the same for chrome as well. is this extension still being maintained???
Bryan Macarayo 2024-03-20: white text problem, please fix thank you to the devs!
Bryan Macarayo 2024-03-20: white text problem, please fix thank you to the devs!
Josh Lewis 2024-03-20: My favourite extension but unfortunately facebook has broken it again!!
Josh Lewis 2024-03-20: My favourite extension but unfortunately facebook has broken it again!!
Sahil Parekh 2024-03-20: 5 stars because the dev consistently fixes the issues that happen when FB decides to change their styling
Syed Rayeed 2024-03-20: White color problem in chats
Ahmed Shams Wali 2024-03-20: Awesome but please fix the white bg color on replies please!
Daniel Espiritu 2024-03-20: It`s broken now. March 20, 2024. Incoming chat message has white background. It`s been great so far. Hope they fix it soon.
Daniel Espiritu 2024-03-20: It`s broken now. March 20, 2024. Incoming chat message has white background. It`s been great so far. Hope they fix it soon.
Coleen Egaña 2024-03-20: The messages start to appear white what happened? please fix thank you
Patrick Loria 2024-03-20: The message are white, can you pls fix it
Trixam Legaspi 2024-03-20: messages received from others are in white, unreadable, what happened :(
Samuel James 2024-03-20: Loved it until today. Messages from people are now white - can't read them. Please fix!
Shardul 2024-03-20: Used to love this as it worked for a long time but this extension broke, I am forced to disable it now. Messages colors seem to be inverted now and it is unreadable. Further more, I dont't see a Charcoal modification setting on top left of Messenger anymore. Please fix.
Greysen Cohen 2024-03-20: Love this so much - but it broke today and now incoming messages are unreadable. Please fix :)
Lira Kimyōna 2024-03-20: worked great for long time, today it broke and replies are white now, also for a while the options for word bubbles have been quite hard to see, is there something that can be done there?
m.nageh 2024-03-20: it used to work great but something just broke today
Jeff Doran 2024-03-20: chat bubbles are showing up white, not sure if native fb or not.
Jay-Are Ocero 2024-03-20: The colors in replies is broken again. Please fix pleaseeee
Sayed Mahmoud 2024-03-19: Reply & react and more buttons (on the chat messages) is hidden or no color and no icon!
CFrancis 2024-03-15: dark mode is more relaxing to the eyes
Mark Gil Iturralde 2024-03-04: Oh yes! This is perfect! Thank you!
Zoltán Pintér 2024-02-29: i came
Er1x 2024-02-09: great extension but message settings (react, reply, more, and forward) needs to be recolored, it cant be seen well
István Péter Járay 2024-01-31: Works perfect usually. When facebook makes a change, they also have to update the script. It's not their fault but I want to report one such newly-emerged bug: The icons next to chat messages (more, reply, respond) are not appearing, but upon hovering over, their area is highlighted and the text-modal shows the related text. Nothing that breaks functionality, but creates nuissance. Otherwise, I adore this plugin. They'll soon get this fixed too as usual.
István Péter Járay 2024-01-31: Works perfect usually. When facebook makes a change, they also have to update the script. It's not their fault but I want to report one such newly-emerged bug: The icons next to chat messages (more, reply, respond) are not appearing, but upon hovering over, their area is highlighted and the text-modal shows the related text. Nothing that breaks functionality, but creates nuissance. Otherwise, I adore this plugin. They'll soon get this fixed too as usual.
Noor Khalil 2024-01-25: I forgot it was an extension until I switched browsers! Thank you for making this.
Alex 2024-01-23: Does not work as intended as of 10/23/23... dark mode grays out text in chats making it extremely difficult to read Edit: not sure when it was fixed but works as intended now :) Any reviews mentioning white text bubbles have not updated their review to reflect the update.
Alex 2024-01-23: Does not work as intended as of 10/23/23... dark mode grays out text in chats making it extremely difficult to read Edit: not sure when it was fixed but works as intended now :) Any reviews mentioning white text bubbles have not updated their review to reflect the update.
Hayden Au 2024-01-17: Thanks for updating, great on the eyes.

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