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Hi everyone,
The system's display setting for Dark Mode is not being passed to the Edge browser viewport.
I will leave some screenshots, hoping that it may help
Edge:
Another side effect is that on the tabs part of the browser, it renders the highlighted tab completely unreadable:
With Chrome all is good and it renders the viewport with Dark Mode:
The issue started to occur recently only a couple of builds ago or so, I cannot really say with what specific version, but I am currently running:
Microsoft Edge version 142.0.3595.65 (Official build) (64-bit)
Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 64-bit
GNOME 43.9
Wayland
TLDR; I am posting this, rather annoying problem with the browser, here because I would like to have some tracking of it if possible, furthermore I could not make such a detail explanation for it in the recommended Send Feedback feature, which I did report it there too a while ago. If it's not the right channel for it I do apologize for it in advance. This is a rather unpleasant one, and it will make me stop using Edge if it persists, I'm afraid. There are plenty of other options out there, I know, but I have become very fond of my Edge here on Linux and all configurations and apps, extensions that I have with it so I am hoping that this can be fixed.
Thank you in advance for any help with this matter,
best regards
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I had the same issue on Fedora. Wanted to keep my GTK theme so used the rpm installer to get an old version of edge (edge 141) and have blocked updates. Hopefully only a temporary workaround until an actual fix comes.
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Hi pompalini,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!
Thanks for sharing the screenshots on your issue with dark mode in Edge. To better help you, I'd like to ask if you only encounter light interfaces with Bing search, or on all websites (e.g. this Learn page you're seeing). Because if it's only one or a few sites, there's a chance that a display setting for it was accidentally turned off. For example, with Bing:
In addition, if you want to force all pages (regardless of their own settings) to dark mode, there's also a toggle for that. However, this is an advanced option for Edge, meaning Windows setting won't apply on it later on:
edge://flags/#enable-force-darkFor the highlight issue, it's worth noting that there have been some user reports of a browser display mismatch recently introduced in Linux (not a confirmed issue). And for now, I still haven't successfully reproduced it on our Windows machine.
Can you try creating a new profile on Edge and let me know if it persists? In addition, let's test by changing some Windows settings to see if it helps (open Settings > Personalization > Colors > toggle Transparency and/or Accent colors).
I totally understand that this is an annoying thing to deal with. I hope the workaround above makes Edge usable for you again while we wait for any official news.
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Hi Lychee-Ng,
First of all I would like to thank you for your thorough and detailed answer to my question. I have tried the enable-force-dark flag but that to me is not a viable option since what it's doing is inverting the color scheme using some code trickery :) but when all else fails... I will have this experimental feature in mind for future reference.
After digging some more, I discovered that the dragon 🐉 lies within the GTK option in Settings > Appearance > GTK | Light | Dark
As you can see the Dark mode does work when selected manually here but when its left to the systems default it gets confused and the browser window is set to dark but the viewport is light. Again this setting was working properly a few versions back and I will probably try to rollback when if I get annoyed by manually doing it
Changing the appearance manually is the best option, not ideal but for now I can work with that
ps: I don't think that I should mark your answer as solved my issue since it didn't 🤷🏻
Thank you again for your support here, much appreciated!
Cheers
Still, I'm glad that you figured out a way to make Edge working for you again!
To answer my own question and since the GTK option is broken the workaround is to set the Appearance mode manually:
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Hi @Lychee-Ng , this issue still happening. the only way to load the dark mode is changing manually the theme. the GKT option should sync the theme like other applications.
Linux pahventure 6.17.0-8-generic #8-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Nov 14 21:44:46 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Microsoft Edge 143.0.3650.80
Hi, thanks for the update. Seems like this is a behavior specific to Linux system, as at the moment we cannot reproduce it on Windows and Mac. Consider sending your observation via Feedback Hub (press Win + F) to Microsoft, or Alt + Shift + I to Edge (as well as make this behavior known to the Linux developers in case they can take measures on it.)