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I tried it a while back in Firefox and after a a few days I noticed memory usage in Firefox was going way up and whenever I opened dev tools everthing would slow down drastically. Removed the addon and everything went back to normal.

Anyone getting these types of issues still? I would love to start using it again.

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Definitely slower than something that has a pre-defined stylesheet, e.g. Stylus. Does occassionally cause graphical issues (say, below 0.05% of websites I visit, once a month?) that means I have to toggle it off for that site.

Still use it because the speed / memory different isn't noticeable on most modern laptops / desktops. Even my phone uses it now as it's quick enough with the 'dynamic' update they made (toggle onto it under the 'more' section)

I'm a happy Dark Reader user. The issue you experienced could be related to which type of ‘filter’ you used. The four different kinds, Filter, Filter+, Static and Dynamic approach re-theming in different ways that varies in resource use[1].

For example, Filter ”requires GPU resources”, while Filter+ “works poorly in Firefox”. Dynamic pays up-front on first pageload, but subsequent pageloads should be lean.

[1]: Theme generation modes, https://darkreader.org/help/en/#filter-settings

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