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Microsoft gets Google Chrome’s forced dark mode — here’s how to enable it Microsoft Edge has brought in the option to force a dark mode on web pages even if they don’t support it, giving it another feature to tempt people over from Google Chrome. Based on the same engine Chrome’s dark mode uses, Edge's version will change the color of a website’s background, text, and other elements on the page, effectively forcing a dark mode on to a site. For people who do a lot of evening web surfing, this forced dark mode will make flipping through web pages less of an eye strain. Google Chrome used to also force a dark mode onto websites, which was a feature of its Canary experimental browser that users had to enable. Google has since removed the option. But phones site MobiGyaan discovered such a feature is still in the Edge browser. However, it also has to be forcefully enabled as it doesn’t exist in a simple drop-down option or sub-menu in the browser. How to enable forced dark...

Google  services and products have enriched the lives of tech fans, businesspeople, and basically anyone who’s ever been curious enough to ask a question on the internet. We all know about  Search ,  Gmail ,  Maps ,  Chrome ,  YouTube , and, of course,  Android . We’ve recently seen new names added to the Google hall of fame too — most notably the  Pixel  smartphone brand and  Google Assistant -powered  Home  smart devices. Google in 2019: All in on AI What about Google’s epic fails? For all the Mountain View company’s many, many successes, a bunch of apps, devices, and other products it birthed or acquired ultimately floundered and died, often killed in unceremonious fashion. Websites like  Google Cemetery  and  Killed by Google  (as well as  Ars Technica ‘s  Google Kills Product  series) are dedicated to tracking the big G’s dead products, so we thought it’d be fun to sift through the corpse...