Material Incognito Light Theme

A theme that removes the dark Incognito Mode colour scheme from Chrome.

As of May 2026, Material Incognito Light Theme has 3,000 users and a 4.42/5 rating from 145 reviews.

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Version
5.2.0
Manifest V2

History

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Permissions & access

Permissions
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Host access
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Screenshots

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About

This theme is deprecated as Google has blocked all official capability to theme the Incognito window. 

Chrome's incognito mode (lower-case i) has been turn into Incognito (upper-case I), treated as a Google brand, not just used in Chrome but across other products like Google Maps, Gboard and others. In order to maintain a strong brand consistency, Google uses the same grey motif to indicate that you are in Incognito, and they've taken this one step further by disabling all theme customisation for Incognito.

For the time being, you can temporarily reverse this by going to chrome://flags/#incognito-brand-consistency-for-desktop and setting the flag to Disabled. This will enable this theme to work once more. However, this flag will not stick around forever, and in the future when Google removes the flag, the theme will be disabled from working permanently.

As a result of the above decisions from Google, this theme is officially deprecated and will no longer receive any updates. When the Chrome flag is eventually removed, this theme will be decommissioned at some point afterwards as there will be no need for it to exist. 

Thank you for using Material Incognito Light Theme; I hope you enjoyed it whilst it was around.

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Original Description

Incognito mode uses a dark colour scheme to distinguish it from normal mode. This theme removes and replaces it with the light colour scheme from normal mode.

### Github
This theme is fully open-source under the Apache License. Check out the source code on Github at https://github.com/Fiddle-N/material-incognito-light-theme .

### Uninstallation
To uninstall this theme, go to Settings, scroll down to the Appearance section, and next to "Themes - Material Incognito Light Theme", click Reset to Default.

Technical

Version
5.2.0
Manifest
V2
Size
7.48KiB
Min Chrome
Languages
1
Featured
No

Metadata

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Developer ID
udad18f1e34645650882f374af4e179a2
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Jul 29, 2016
Last Updated (Store)
Feb 22, 2022
Last Scraped
May 23, 2026
Website
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