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Deploy to your Network

You can deploy the "Turn Off the Lights" Chrome extension also to your company, government, school, college, and university network. When you do this, you have the option to hide the "Welcome" and "Guide" page each time it installed this Chrome extension in the Google Chrome web browser. You can control the selected features that make it easy to use and ready for your users. And that without interrupting your user experience.

To learn more about this deploying read this Google Chrome help page:

Install Chrome extensions via group policy or master_preferences

To manage the Chrome extension, open this Chrome Policy page chrome://policy/

Our Chrome Extension ID: bfbmjmiodbnnpllbbbfblcplfjjepjdn

Our Microsoft Edge Extension ID: fmamkbgpnienhphflfdamlhnljffjdgm

1. Manually force the Turn Off the Lights Browser extension settings

Windows:

Create new registry item with action "update". Set values as follows:


            
                - Hive: HKEY_Local_Machine
                
                    - Key Path: Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\3rdparty\extensions\bfbmjmiodbnnpllbbbfblcplfjjepjdn\policy
                    
                        - Value Name: SuppressWelcomePage
                        - Value Type: REG_DWORD 32bit
                        - Value Data: 1

The value show here "1", that mean that the value is true. And the user will see not the welcome and guide page on the first run. Futhermore, here is the complete list of the items you can use to manage this Chrome extension settings:

"SuppressWelcomePage"
"type": "boolean"
That will show you not the welcome and guide page on the first installation.

"AutoPlay"
"type": "boolean"
That will enable you the option to automatically dim the screen when the HTML5 video is playing and vice versa.

"AutoStop"
"type": "boolean"
That will enable you the option to automatically block all the playing HTML5 videos.

"AutoHD"
"type": "boolean"
That will automatically force the YouTube video to play your chosen video quality.

"AutoHDQuality"
"type": "string"
Here you can choose the string for what is the highest video quality such as "highres", "hd4320", "hd2880", "hd2160", "hd1440", "hd1080", "hd720", "large", "medium", "small", "tiny", "default".

"Block60FPS"
"type": "boolean"
That will block the 60FPS in the YouTube HD video.

"NightModeSwitch"
"type": "boolean"
That will show you the night switch, to activate your custom dark theme on your open tab page.

"MouseVolumeScroll"
"type": "boolean"
That will show you the volume meter inside the video player that when you scroll inside the video container.

"VideoToolbar"
"type": "boolean"
That will show you the video toolbar inside the video player, that to take a screenshot, change the video filters, etc.

The Chrome Policy feature is only available in the latest Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension ("bfbmjmiodbnnpllbbbfblcplfjjepjdn") and Microsoft Edge ("fmamkbgpnienhphflfdamlhnljffjdgm") version 4.0.48.0 and higher.

2.1 Force-installing via group policy

Place this key in your registry file:

Windows:

Software\Policies\Chromium\ExtensionInstallForcelist\1 = "bfbmjmiodbnnpllbbbfblcplfjjepjdn;https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx"

Android/Linux:

["bfbmjmiodbnnpllbbbfblcplfjjepjdn;https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx"]

Mac:


            <array>

            <string>bfbmjmiodbnnpllbbbfblcplfjjepjdn;https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx</string>

            </array>

2.2. Force-installing via master_preferences

See this help page on how to Use master preferences for Chrome Browser

For more Chrome Enterprise information about Group Policy, see this help page: Set Chrome Browser policies on managed PCs

Sample Registry file

Here a sample registry file that automatically install the Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension and enable the YouTube AutoHD on highres: Sample Registry file

Group Policy Support

If you experience any issues with the installation or the use of the Group Policy in your work or school network. You can contact the Turn Off the Lights Support team, and we are happy to help and assist you with the code.