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

Posted on September 16, 2016October 7, 2021 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.
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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.

<br>Turn Off the Lights Browser extension v3.3 is rolling now our to all web browser such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Maxthon, Yandex and Microsoft Edge.</p>

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.

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.

From Firefox XUL to WebExtensions

Posted on August 30, 2016March 27, 2021 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.

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 May 16, 2016August 22, 2016 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.