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🎓 3 Essential Chrome Extensions for Students and Teachers

The summer is going to end and the back-to-school promotions are already available for students and teachers. That with some awesome and new speedy laptops. And the tablet is an especially popular device for students. Such as the Microsoft Surface Pro. And devices like that can help with his study and homework. Take a good coffee or tea, as here we help you to get the most out of the speedy and lightweight web browser with Chrome Extensions for Students.

Chrome Extensions for Students

Here is an overview of Chrome Extensions for Students:

Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension – Concentration tool

One of the best Chrome Extensions for Students, teachers, and educators is Turn Off the Lights. Students can use Chrome extensions to eliminate pesky YouTube ads that distract them when watching an educational video. However, did you know that besides video focus, it also can convert each website into its own Night theme?

Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension to concentrate on the video content
Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension to concentrate on the video content

And in their free time after school, students need some relaxation. And can enjoy the many other great options inside Turn Off the Lights such as the YouTube AutoHD to 4K, Mouse Volume scroll, etc.

Zoom Chrome extension – Set a custom zoom level

This is another accessibility tool, here you can zoom in and out of the current web page. That is thanks to the slider in the popup window. Furthermore, on the Zoom options page, there is an optional feature to get a magnifying glass on the current web page. So only the view in the circle glass will be increased and the rest on the web page stay on the same zoom level.

Zoom Chrome extension in the Chrome Extensions for Students post
Zoom Chrome extension with the Magnifying Glass option

Print Chrome extension – Print your school courses and documents

When a new course is available on your digital platform, you can be an environment person and read the document on your personal laptop or tablet device. However, some students like to have a hard copy on their desks. And with this useful print button in the web browser your toolbar, you can print these documents. That in color, and black and white or grayscale.

Print Chrome extension black and white preview panel
Print Chrome extension black and white preview panel

Hope you like these tips for students and teachers to increase your productivity on the web. And to get the best web browsing experience.

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Stefan Van Damme

🧩 Microsoft Edge extension to Chromium extension best web experience

There is a new web browser on the internet market. The Microsoft Edge web browser is moving from its EdgeHTML engine to the Chromium engine, which is the browser engine of the Google Chrome web browser. So the most popular Turn Off the Lights for Microsoft Edge will use now the Chrome extension version in that new web browser.

However, the current Microsoft Edge extension use already the same code as in the Google Chrome extension and with a bridge file to communicate to the Microsoft Edge web browser. But Microsoft has this to say to his Windows 10 internet users:

“Ultimately, we want to make the web experience better for many different audiences. People using Microsoft Edge (and potentially other browsers) will experience improved compatibility with all web sites, while getting the best-possible battery life and hardware integration on all kinds of Windows devices.”

Joe Belfiore – Corporate Vice President, Windows
Microsoft Edge extension to Chromium extension

You can try now the new Microsoft Edge web browser. Also, you can install now the latest Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension in the Microsoft Edge web browser. It is more powerful than ever before for your Chromium web browser.

Benefits of the Microsoft Edge Extension to the Chromium Extension platform

In addition, with one single and the same code, you have always the latest extension version in your favorite web browser. That includes Google Chrome, Opera, Yandex, and the Microsoft Edge web browser.

  • Get fast the latest update and improvements
  • Better performance on your web browser
  • Enjoy all the nifty and latest night mode experience

Also, want to install the Turn Off the Lights Chrome Web Store extension on Microsoft Edge for Windows and macOS?

To install the extension

  1. Provide consent
    • Open Microsoft Edge.
    • Go to edge://extensions or click Setting and more (…) > Extensions.
    • Enable Allow extension from other Stores.
    • Accept the disclaimer.
  2. Install extension
    • Open the Chrome Web Store
    • Find and select the extension you want to install.
    • Click Add to Chrome.
    • Some extensions will let you know if they need certain permissions or data. To enable, click Add extension.

Above all, if you like our work, do not forget to rate the Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension to 5 stars. And make a small donation to support the development of our free and Open Source Browser extension.

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Stefan Van Damme

🌚 Everything in Dark Mode experience

When you open a bright website in a dark room such as Google.com, you will see that it brightens up your entire room. And even when the screen is still not on the maximum brightest level. And you can only get this experience with a bright and white background. If you are using a dark website such as YouTube Music, this doesn’t light up your room entirely. Above all, too much white light in our eyes is not healthy. And that must be changed.

When you visit today our official Turn Off the Lights website. You can get a Dark Mode style of our website. If you use the latest Safari Technology Preview web browser. And if your system appearance color is set to the dark mode option, then you will see that the Turn Off the Lights web page adapts to your system appearance color. The Light mode will be the white background for the web page. And the Dark mode will be a dark black background.

Dark Mode first Design choice

The internet went from a full desktop website to a mobile-first design. This is better know as Responsive web design. That is the approach to render the well on a variety of devices and window or screen sizes. Today, there will be a new industry standard for web developers. And that is to provide two stylesheets for the web visitor. One the light mode and the other the dark mode. It is a comment sense that we take this step for our visitors. And it is what our users want when they install our free Turn Off the Lights Browser extension that is available on all the major web browsers (such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Microsoft Edge).

All our User Interface elements support the dark mode. Therefore, you get a better User Experience that matched your operating system’s appearance color. For example, when the Dark appearance is enabled. The navigation bar will be darker and include also all the hyperlinks. And with a slightly black background for the web page, with the text font color in white.

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Stefan Van Damme