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All websites in a dark theme with Turn Off the Lights for Android

Posted on by Stefan Van Damme

One of the most loved feature that our users love in the Turn Off the Lights Browser extension is the Night Mode. The Night Mode feature converts all web pages to a dark theme with one tap on the switch. It increases battery life (less brightness of the display screen), reduces his eye strain, helps with his migraines. And Night Mode gets even better today.

The Ultimate dark theme for Android

Night Mode
If you are using now the Turn Off the Lights Android you can enable the option to show a switch below in the browser. Tap on the switch and you can get a darker website.

Turn Off the Lights for Android Night Mode feature disabled on Nexus 5X Phone
Regular mode on the Android web browser app
Dark theme enabled on Turn Off the Lights for Android on Nexus 5X Phone
Night Mode enabled on the Android web browser app

It’s not one JavaScript line that adds a CSS style to invert the web page with a filter.
body { -webkit-filter: invert(100%);filter: invert(100%); }
Some developers do this to invert the website content, but that break the whole website content for the users. While it invert also the images on the news article.
Our Advanced code is better in performance and change the color for each text element, text to white and background to black.

Default is this feature disabled, and you can enable it on the three dots icon -> Settings -> Turn Off the Lights Settings -> Night Mode -> Show the switch on the web page.

Share Dialog
There is now a more beautiful share page. With one tap on the Share menu, you can choose on what platform you want to share this URL. Or you can even send it as SMS or email to your friends.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-UKmbV36BzA
YouTube video about the all new Turn Off the Lights for Android web browser

It’s the most powerful update ever for the Turn Off the Lights Android app. You can get the free update today in the Google Play Store. (the new features are also available for the iPhone and iPad users)

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

About The 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.

YouTube Video Setting to Block 60fps + Night Mode Update

Posted on by Stefan Van Damme

The YouTube video setting you will need to get not a hot laptop. Today there is a new version available for the Google Chrome users (and later this month for the other web browsers such as Firefox, Opera)! In the Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension v3.2.0.15 we added two new features inside that helps you get great performance on YouTube. And get a comfortable way discover the hyperlinks, if you have enabled the Night Mode feature.

YouTube Video Setting

Are the YouTube videos you are watching take up too much CPU, or is the YouTube videos stutter, or even worse, it eat your battery life very quickly, or you can fry an egg on your laptop. If you got an old computer, the YouTube performance is not very well on this kind of (old) hardware. Even today, more YouTubers have uploaded the 60fps videos to YouTube.

You as a user can fix this easily with one checkbox. So its use back the Standard Frame Rate of 30fps back on all your YouTube videos (and embedded YouTube players). Open the Turn Off the Lights options page -> Basics tab. Just right of the AutoHD feature, enable the option “Block 60fps”. And now it will play them back more smoothly.

YouTube video setting block 60 frame per second
The YouTube AutoHD (8K, 5K, 4K, 1080p, 720p) feature with the option to block 60fps

Change the hyperlink color in the Night Mode feature

When it’s night you can convert a website to a darker theme. That’s where the Night Mode feature is here.
Now in the Turn Off the Lights options page you can also change the color of all the hyperlinks in the Night Mode. So you can see the working hyperlinks on your favourite website. See example here below of the Google News website.

Night Mode disable with the regular website content and color
Night Mode disabled with the regular website style
Night Mode with custom color for the hyperlinks
Night Mode activated with the hyperlinks in orange

Download the update now in your Google Chrome web browser and try today this new YouTube video setting to block 60fps.

Do you like our project? Please support our work. By sharing and rate 5 stars in the Chrome web store! And if you can make a donation of any amount, we’d appreciate it immensely!

About The 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.

Turn Off the Lights Firefox WebExtensions Ready To Test It Out!

Posted on by Stefan Van Damme

We last updated you on our progress with the Turn Off the Lights Microsoft Edge Extension, and today we have an update for the Firefox Webextensions extension, which is ready for in the Firefox Nightly web browser.

Mozilla Firefox is also moving to the same extension API as the Google Chrome Extension platform later this year. They called it the Webextensions. This technology is designed for cross-browser compatibilities such as Google Chrome, Opera, Chromium, and Microsoft Edge. Where Webextensions is more secure than the old Firefox overlay XUL technology.

Turn Off the Lights Firefox WebExtensions for Firefox Nightly
Firefox Nightly with the Turn Off the Lights extension

What’s new in this Webextensions version?

When you install this extension for the first time in your Firefox web browser, you will see that the gray lamp button is now in the address bar. And that it will not disturb you as a button in the toolbar. The lamp button is only visible on the website where it works such as the http and https protocol. It will not be visible on the page where it doesn’t work, such as the about:preferences, the settings page from Firefox.
By moving from XUL to this new extension technology, have this extension finally also the ‘no-restart‘ label. So you don’t need to restart the browser if there is a new Turn Off the Lights extension update is available in Firefox.

Of course are all the other most used features are still here, such as the Night Mode (that converts the webpage from a day to a night theme), the atmosphere lighting for HTML5 videos (shows a glow around the video player), YouTube AutoHD, etc.

You can try yourself the latest Turn Off the Lights Firefox extension (WebExtensions version). We tested it in the latest Firefox Nightly 49.0a1 (2016-04-29). Download the XPI file from our Github website, and load the file in the Firefox web browser from the menu Firefox -> ‘File’ -> ‘Open File…’.

Do you like our project? Please support our work. By sharing it! And if you can make a donation of any amount, we’d appreciate it immensely!

About The 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.