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🧁10th Birthday of Turn Off the Lights! The Amazing Enjoyable Web Experience!

On 15 December Turn Off the Lights celebrates an outstanding anniversary! In the last 10 years, we provide you the focus on only the video element, and provide you an optional Night Mode for all websites, and control the video player at your mouse click and scroll event. And make the lamp available for all platforms on the web browser, desktop, and mobile devices. This is just the beginning of an amazing web experience.

Happy 10th Birthday Turn Off the Lights
10th Birthday of Turn Off the Lights browser extension

That started first on the Google Chrome web browser, receiving many updates very quickly every week. And have a hugely positive experience to bring for the Google Chrome web browser. And then this simple useful tool is ported to Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, Maxthon, and the other Chromium browsers.

Turn Off the Lights gray lamp button
Gray lamp button of the Turn Off the Lights browser extension

Celebrate 10th Birthday

Here is the 10th Birthday word from Stefan Van Damme, the Turn Off the Lights developer:

The past 10 year was tremendous, and many millions of users around the world download and use this unique and free browser extension that is never seen before on the internet.

I believe in simplicity and user-friendly design for the user. And for each update, I work very hard to continue to build this high-quality extension up with your feedback. So you get a useful, powerful tool to customize your web experience and to protect your eyes. Turn Off the Lights is absolutely free and Open-Source software. And this tool sets the industry standard for the web since 2009.

Furthermore, the extension is not on his end but the start for other necessary improvements to come for the web. The vision is to continue solving the multimedia issue on the web. That to get a healthy and comfortable experience for our eyes.

Finally, I want personal thank all our users. And also for the users who comment, feedback, suggested ideas, and the contributors that translate this project to his local language. Turn Off the Lights is a small team, and I appreciate any contribution to moving the project forward. Thank you!

Stefan Van Damme
Turn Off the Lights developer

Celebrity the 10th Birthday. Do not forget to subscribe to our latest YouTube videos. And continue to support this remarkable project, that by a small contribution is welcome.

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🌎 Protecting our Planet with this Easy and Powerful Tips

Recently in the news, you can read that the United Nations report that Greenhouse gas emissions have risen steadily for the past decade despite the current and future threat posed by climate change. So it is time to protecting our planet now!

Protecting our Planet

If you are a Turn Off the Lights browser extension users, you already one step closer to protecting our planet.

Tip 1

When you do the lights off (and set the opacity to 100% black) on your OLED screen, it will save your battery life on your laptop. And will use it less electric energy for your display screen. As the black pixels will need no power to see the black pixel. And you will save energy.

Tip 2

Also, if you enable the YouTube AutoHD feature in Turn Of the Lights Options page. But change the video quality from 4K to 240p you can save the CO2 Emissions of the internet server. Why is that? Online video is responsible for 80% of the internet traffic around the world, according to data published by International Data Corporation (IDC). Some YouTube videos are great to be seen in HD of course, but when we are listening to a long speech or very well-know music hits, we do not necessarily need HD. Set it to a Low Definition such as 144p, 240p or 360p.

Tip 3

If you use daily your internet web browser, try to change the user interface theme to a dark or black theme. Then you are in a good direction to protecting our planet.

Thinking about the environment and to get you a healthy and comfortable web experience. And that as a completely free useful tool. There are no other browser extensions doing this, this is something only Turn Off the Lights can do. So what are you waiting for? Set it to a Low Definition option. And watch YouTube videos with the lights off. And if you like our work, please do not forget to rate this extension to 5 stars and make a small donation to support our work.

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Stefan Van Damme

πŸ›‘ Improvement in AutoStop HTML5 video and Mouse Volume Scroll

In the last Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension version 4.0.47.0, we did update two technology used features. That is the AutoStop and the Mouse Volume Scroll features.

AutoStop feature

In the first feature, the AutoStop code is improved that all playing HTML5 videos will be detected and that includes now also the iframe elements with the HTML5 video player inside. And with a single click on the red banner, it unlocks and plays that selected HTML5 video player. The AutoStop HTML5 video will bring you control over all those playing videos on the internet.

AutoStop HTML5 video enabled in the Google Chrome web browser
AutoStop feature enabled with the Turn Off the Lights Browser extension

Mouse Volume Scroll

The Mouse Volume Scroll feature engine code is also improved. So that it even works on more video websites such as Twitch.tv, Twitter, etc. When you enable this feature in the Turn Off the Lights Options page, you can get a volume meter visible if your mouse is on top of your chosen video player. With a scroll up or down, it changes instantly the volume of that current HTML5 video player.

And in the Turn Off the Lights Options page, you can also change the way on how you want to change the volume. There is an option to control the Mouse Volume Scroll with to hold your left or right mouse button. So to make it more personal to your style, you can change the color of this blue volume meter to your own favorite color such as red, green, yellow, etc.

Furthermore, we rely on your support if you like this free and Open-Source Turn Off the Lights Browser extension. Please make a small contribution to support this work. Also, if you can do rate this extension to 5 stars and share it with your family and friends. And that will support this work.

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Stefan Van Damme