Google Chrome 74 brings a highly-anticipated feature to Windows 10: the browser now features a dark mode, similar to the macOS sibling.

Dark themes are particularly successful these days, pretty much since they're easier on the eye in the evening or during the night.

And because Google Chrome is the leading browser on both the desktop and mobile, it's a no-brainer the application should come with your a choice.

It was better late than never for Google Chrome, as the search giant is one of the last browser developers introducing a dark mode. For instance, Microsoft Edge (the initial version, not the brand new one running on Chromium), already includes such an option, despite not as successful as Google's rival.

The biggest trouble with Google Chrome's dark theme isn't necessarily the way it looks - because yes, that's a problem too, because this visual style lacks the current refinements users expected - however the proven fact that it's determined by the Windows 10 theme.

This means that in order to use the dark theme in the search engines Chrome you need to let the dark theme in Windows 10 too. If you want to stick with the default Chrome looks, just switch to the light visual style in the operating-system.

Although this constitutes a lot of sense for those who want simply a super-consistent experience across Windows 10, the more frustrating thing is that Google doesn't allow users to disable the dark theme without turning off the dark mode within the operating system. So if you want a mixture of a dark theme in Windows and standard try looking in Chrome, you can't have it.

Google hasn't included a toggle to create this happen, albeit I expect the organization introducing such an option at some stage in the future.

Meanwhile, users have come across an answer that fixes this, even though it's not quite probably the most straightforward workaround. However the good thing is it exists, so can finally get the old Google Chrome looks on the Windows 10 system with the dark theme enabled.

The very first thing you could do is to produce a shortcut for Google Chrome. To do this, head over to the place of Google Chrome in your device, right-click chrome.exe > Send to > Desktop. Should you used the default path, Google Chrome should be installed in the following location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

When the shortcut is made, head over to the desktop, right-click it > Properties. What you ought to do is edit the prospective field and add some --disable-features=DarkMode parameter. This means that the prospective field should eventually look like this (again, if you used the default install location for Google Chrome):

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-features=DarkMode

Keep in mind that in order to have the dark theme disabled in the browser, you have to launch the browser out of this shortcut exclusively.

Probably, Google will prove to add a toggle to make the whole thing easier inside a future update, as well as the moment, the organization hasn't even confirmed that it's focusing on such a feature.

According to the official schedule, the following version of the browser is Google Chrome 75, that is due on June 4. If Bing is indeed likely to bring the dark mode/light mode toggle in this version, expect the Canary build to have it at some point in the future.

Meanwhile, you can just turn to the secret here to disable the dark theme. Once Google's releases this selection, you can simply take away the added parameter from the shortcut.