There are plenty of dark mode themes for firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2022
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What exactly do you mean?
I have firefox set to dark theme both on m PC and on my phone.
sorry. i meant on android.
I believe they're talking about the browser changing websites to an artificial dark theme, like what the Dark Reader extension does.
Because forcing "dark mode" on websites by altering the CSS of the website is a bad thing. If the website is designed to be bright on a white background, then any amount of altering could break it, every single time the website changed their UI you would have to wait for them to update the dark theme for the website on the Firefox app. For every single website.
Dark mode is a good thing for constant unchanging UI elements. Where the theme for the dark mode is developed by the actual developers in case something changed. The only thing that the browser can responsibly do is give you a dark theme for the UI, and any other change such as dark mode extensions for websites are on an "at your own risk" basis. This is the same reason that Chrome/Chromium does not offer dark mode.
Theming introduces changes on a website that are unexpected by the UI developers of the website. They design their website with a white background, and they design their features around these colors. It also is bad for brand identity (ex: dark reader makes the color of the wikipedia logo black with white accents, which while being the same logo, is not Wikipedia's brand identity.)