{"id":4935,"date":"2016-12-23T20:12:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T20:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2019-05-12T02:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T02:52:52","slug":"chrome-incognito-light-theme-change-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/chrome-incognito-light-theme-change-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply a Light Theme for Chrome Incognito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the implementation of Material Design in recent desktop versions of Google Chrome, the dark color scheme has been applied for incognito mode. Some users still prefer to have the usual, light theme for incognito mode, but there is no built-in option or <code>chrome:\/\/flags<\/code> setting for this.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Using the <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/material-incognito-light\/necpbhkfondbpbloppmkjpdkdimldobc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Material Incognito Light<\/a> Theme available at Chrome Web Store, you can change the Chrome incognito color scheme throughout the browser to light instead of the pitch dark color. [via <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/chrome\/comments\/5in7kq\/material_incognito_light_theme_to_everyone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/chrome-incognito-dark.png\" alt=\"chrome incognito light theme\" width=\"680\" height=\"452\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4936\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/chrome-incognito-light.png\" alt=\"chrome incognito light theme\" width=\"680\" height=\"452\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4937\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure many incognito mode surfers will find this <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/category\/themes?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">theme<\/a> useful. To revert back to the default dark theme, open Chrome Settings, and under Appearance, click Reset to default theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the implementation of Material Design in recent desktop versions of Google Chrome, the dark color scheme has been applied for incognito mode. Some users still prefer to have the usual, light theme for incognito mode, but there is no built-in option or chrome:\/\/flags setting for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-google-chrome"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3802,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/always-start-google-chrome-incognito-mode-default\/","url_meta":{"origin":4935,"position":0},"title":"How to Always Start Google Chrome in Incognito Mode by Default","author":"Ramesh","date":"August 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Google Chrome's Incognito mode lets you browse the web privately, without leaving traces of your browsing history on the local computer. 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