Category: browser

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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