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I'd love to see some form of universal dark mode or reverse mode on Macs and ios. Something that reverses backgrounds so I'm reading white text on black background. There are various workarounds, but it would be nice to not have to use them.

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You can invert the screen colors.

System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, look under "Accessibility" for "invert colors"

You can also assign this to a hotkey to quickly toggle it on/off.

I've installed a firefox plugin that does this - just a few css rules for background color, text colour, etc. It totally ruins all the designy aspects of the web, but it makes reading a lot less tiring for my eyes.

If you're referring to "Dark Background and Light Text" by Mikhail Khvoinitsky, I can vouch for it. It also works surprisingly well on mobile:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/dark-backgrou...

Yes - that's the one. I've set it for the traditional dark background and green text (as I have for terminal, sublime, etc.). Does wonders for the eyes.

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