Turn Off the Lights (extension)

Turn Off the Lights is a free browser extension developed by Stefan vd. It is available as a plugin for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari. There is also a Turn Off the Lights bookmarklet for other browsers. It is one of the most popular Chrome extension, attaining over one hundred and fifty thousand downloads per week and more than 2 million users as of 1 September 2012.

Overview

Turn Off the Lights is a browser extension that lets users obscure everything on their screen except the Flash or HTML5 video they're watching, minimizing distractions and making for a more pleasant viewing experience for the internet users.

The extension is very easy to use for video watcher. A lamp icon is displayed in The Browser menu bar when a video is detected, and users simply click on the gray lamp icon to make the screen surrounding the video FADE. Clicking outside the video restores the rest of the screen. Users can adjust the opacity of the screen blocking and select a color other than black if desired. The extension can also be set to dim the screen automatically, and there are a variety of YouTube-specific features as well to bring an object to front. A keyboard shortcut gives users quick access to the program's services

Features

  • Color & image
  • AutoPlay (HTML5 & YouTube)
  • Atmosphere Lighting
  • Fade Effects
  • Flash Detection
  • Eye Protection
  • Custom Mouse

Source code

Turn Off the Lights is free and open source.

Reception

Turn Off the Lights has a 4.76-star rating at the Chrome extension web site with over 7458 reviews, and it has been featured on Google Blog, Lifehacker, MacLife, CNET, and New York Times.

Windows Store App

Also the Turn Off the Lights release a Windows Store App for the Windows RT users. It have the same concept as the browser extension.

See also

  • List of Firefox extensions