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Silver Contributor

Aug 24, 2021

Dev channel update to 94.0.992.1 is live

Hello Insiders! Today we’re releasing build 94.0.992.1 to the Dev channel, and believe it or not, this is the last build for version 94, give or take a patch or two. So if you’re going to need to g...

Silver Contributor

Aug 25, 2021

Paul_VC have you tried disabling the edge://flags/#enable-force-dark flag? The new Dev/Beta builds should have full access to flags, including this one.

Iron Contributor

Aug 26, 2021

I set that flag to Disabled (Edge Canary latest version on Android 11), and it does not solve it. Websites are still always rendered in Dark Mode).

josh_bodner
Silver Contributor
Sep 02, 2021
Paul_VC As with most things related to how webpages are rendered, this appears to be behavior we inherit from Chromium (thus why that flag doesn't have Edge in it's name), and it doesn't appear that there's a way to do this in Chrome either, at least as far as I can tell, so this is likely something we'll have to work on ourselves if people request it. It shouldn't be too hard though since it just needs a switch!
- Paul_VC
  Iron Contributor
  Sep 03, 2021
  Josh, I tested this on the Google Chrome browser on Android, and setting the edge://flags/#enable-force-dark flag to Disabled (as per your earlier suggestion) does indeed do what it is supposed to do: it keeps the original content colors, even when the browser UI or Android system UI is set to Dark Mode.
  
  Setting the edge://flags/#enable-force-dark flag to Disabled still converts website content to Dark Mode, whereas it should not, so this is a bug in Edge.
  - josh_bodner
    Silver Contributor
    Sep 10, 2021
    Ah, that's a different story then. Let me ask the team if this is something we're tracking since that's not a flag we own.
- Paul_VC
  Iron Contributor
  Sep 02, 2021
  Good to hear it shouldn't be too hard. Looking forward to its implementation then. 😉

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