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Author: Stefan Van Damme

Stefan Van Damme is the lead Developer of the Turn Off the Lights Browser Extension for Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Maxthon, Yandex, Vivaldi, Brave, and Microsoft Edge.

The most powerful video customization tool ever for YouTube with Audio Visualization

Posted on by Stefan Van Damme

Turn Off the Lights extension v3.3 is now online! It’s the most powerful video customization tool ever for YouTube and for all HTML5 videos. It’s the best Turn Off the Lights update that we ever published for all web browsers.

Toolbar inside the <video> player

It’s annoying to get an extra toolbar below the current video player such as on the YouTube website. The “Video Toolbar” option adds a toolbar inside the video player, and it will be only visible when you move your mouse inside the video content. It’s the only and the best way to get a great online video experience in a web browser.

You have more control than ever before in the Turn Off the Lights browser extension. Here is an overview of what’s new:

  • There is an option to enable the mouse volume scroll. This provides you a quick and easy way to control the sound volume on your HTML5 video player. Simply by rolling the wheel of your wheel mouse.
  • Another feature is a one-click to enable the loop for that video player, to play your favorite video over and over.
  • Also, you can add a filter to makes the video lighter or darker on all HTML5 videos.
  • The last button right of the video toolbar brings the whole video to full screen within your browser window.
Turn Off the Lights extension video toolbar

Audio Visualization

Visualizations are those graphic effects that are animated based on audio. It’s a very unique and new entertainment feature that is available in the Turn Off the Lights v3.3 browser extension. So with one click on the “motor wicks” icon, lets you easily add the audio visualization effects for that video player.

Choose your Lamp

Turn Off the Lights is an open-source project and one of the feedback that we get from our users is to add an option to change the color of the lamp icon. So that the color matches his web browser theme. Now you can choose your favorite lamp button, as a result, you can choose between the default gray, white, gold, rose gold, and the rainbow version of our lamp icon.
Browser lamp gray gold rose rainbow white

It is one of our exciting updates this year for the Turn Off the Lights browser extension. Finally, please don’t forget to share this news with your friends. And if you can make a small donation to keep this project alive we appreciate it immensely.

Stefan Van Damme

Stefan Van Damme is the lead Developer of the Turn Off the Lights Browser Extension for Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Maxthon, Yandex, Vivaldi, Brave, and Microsoft Edge.

From Firefox XUL to WebExtensions

Posted on by Stefan Van Damme

Since the release of our first Turn Off the Lights XUL add-on, we have seen that writing an add-on on that platform has been very difficult than all the other web browsers. There is a lot of sandboxes that must be done, and a different kind of communication from the JavaScript to the background page. While converting a feature from the Google Chrome extension to Firefox takes few more extra hours.
Today we are happy to announce that all Firefox users can download the latest Turn Off the Lights WebExtensions. This extension is available for the Firefox web browser v49 beta or higher.

What’s new in this WebExtensions version?

The biggest change you will see is that the gray lamp button is now in the address bar of your Firefox web browser. And that you get the best performance in your web browser (know as the label, no-restart in the Firefox add-on gallery). Turn Off the Lights Firefox extension v3.2.0.15 is fully compatible with the Firefox multiprocess.

Turn Off the Lights Firefox WebExtensions

Future developments

The most popular web browser share today the same extension API such as Google Chrome, Opera, Yandex, and Microsoft Edge. Because the universal API is very easy and fast to fix a small bug. And developing the next big update smoother and faster than ever before. We only need to update our core Chrome extension files and copy and paste this into the correct folder. Such as the ‘lights.js‘, ‘content.js‘, and ‘options.js‘ files for the other web browser platform.

There are more things coming very soon this year. We can’t wait to show it to you. And would thank everyone for their awesome feedback on the Turn Off the Lights support form! You can always support our work by translating our Turn Off the Lights project. Or by making a small donation to keep this project alive.

Stefan Van Damme

Stefan Van Damme is the lead Developer of the Turn Off the Lights Browser Extension for Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Maxthon, Yandex, Vivaldi, Brave, and Microsoft Edge.

Turn Off the Lights + 1Password

Posted on by Stefan Van Damme

These days, mobile (phone & tablet) internet users are growing faster than the desktop internet users. And as a mobile user you always want to get your personal information from wherever you are on the world. If you are in China, Canada, India or just in Belgium to do a walk at the Belgique coast. When you browse the web in our dark mobile web browser the chances is big that one of this information can be your password.

One of the best password manager tool for macOS and Windows is 1Password. This secures your login information and other passwords.
We are happy to announce that the 1Password extension is now available inside the Turn Off the Lights iPhone / iPad app. When you browse the web you can access your personal login information direct from our app.

1Password Extension

Turn Off the Lights with 1Password app
Turn Off the Lights for Mobile app with 1Password extension

You can open the 1Password app directly from the Bookmarks side panel by swiping your finger from the right edge of your phone to left. Or by clicking on the three dots icon at the top right of your screen -> you see the setting menu show up and tap now on the menu item -> Bookmarks.

If the 1Password is not installed on your device, it shows you the default share action icon from iOS. Where you can also copy the text, add the page to your reading list or print the web page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w8EJLnpeQc
YouTube video promotion about 1Password

Turn Off the Lights dark mobile web browser supports the 1Password extension in the app version 1.2.7 and higher. You can download the update here or from the Apple App Store. It is currently only available for iPod touch, iPhone and iPad users.

We hope you like this free update. And you can always support our work by translating our Turn Off the Lights project or by making a small donation to keep this project alive.

Stefan Van Damme

Stefan Van Damme is the lead Developer of the Turn Off the Lights Browser Extension for Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Maxthon, Yandex, Vivaldi, Brave, and Microsoft Edge.