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How to Keep Your Best YouTube Video Quality

Sometime play YouTube with your feet, this especially with the YouTube video quality. When you need the highest video quality you see just big pixel blocks. And that may be distracting after a while.

Turn Off the Lights browser extension is a tool everything around the topic video. That is why this is kindly a YouTube extension.
Because inside there is an option to play automatically the highest YouTube video quality of this video. Or you can choose yourself the quality from the list: 4K, 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p and 144p.

YouTube Video Quality

Jayne will tell you here in this YouTube video on how to enable this AutoHD feature in the Turn Off the Lights extension. The only thing you need is a web browser such as Google Chrome and the Turn Off the Lights extension.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us on our support page or leave a comment in the YouTube video.

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Stefan Van Damme

3D Touch available for the TOtL iPhone App

Turn Off the Lights v1.2 for iPhone and iPad is rolling out worldwide now. Big improvement in the webview engine (Apple WKWebView) and its support finally 3D Touch! So you can open fast a new tab, private mode tab or your bookmarks sidebar.

3D Touch Support

When you press hard on the Turn Off the Lights app icon that is visible on your home screen (only for iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus). You will see a small menu show up below the app icon, here you can open direct a new tab without opening first the app. 3D Touch is an easy and fast way to navigate outside the iOS app.

Turn Off the Lights 3D Touch support

Multitasking Split View

Are you watching a YouTube movie on the iPad or even the iPad Pro device. There is good news for you! Now you can split the Turn Off the Lights app on the left side, and read your emails or news on the right side. And you can interact with both of them.

User Interface

In the previous Turn Off the Lights iOS app version, it was kindly different to close the ‘new tab’ that is already open. To close that ‘new tab’, you must do a long press on the tab name, and then you see the dialog box to remove your chosen tab.
In this new app version we make it a bit easy for you as a user. We added right of the new tab title an X icon. So you can close easy the new tab page. This feature is also available in the bookmarks sidebar on your right side.
And this free app has also the latest translation in Basque, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

Have tried the Turn Off the Lights universal app for iPhone and iPad? Download the FREE app today on the Apple App Store! You won’t regret it. Already a user? Download the update from the App store.

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Stefan Van Damme

Why Flash video Doesn’t Work

Flash Video is still widely used by big companies. And some companies is moving to the industry standard HTML5 video.

User Email about Flash video

Each week we receive an email from our users that said that the Turn Off the Lights extension cannot detect the flash video player on a website. While it works on YouTube. And ask us on how to fix this issue in his Google Chrome web browser.
The solution for this question was very easy, and we explain that the Turn Off the Lights browser extension detect default all the HTML5 Video Players, but by enabling one setting in the extension options page you it supports also the Adobe Flash objects.

Bringing support to our users is extremely important to us. That’s why we create a YouTube video serie about the most asked questions about the Turn Off the Lights Browser extension.

Here is the first YouTube solution video on how detect the Flash video player, for ‘Question of the Day’.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us on our support page or leave a comment in the YouTube video.

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Stefan Van Damme