Turn Off the Lights

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The entire page will be fading to dark, so you can watch the videos as if you were in the cinema. Works for YouTube™ and beyond.

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Description from store Immerse yourself in a cinematic atmosphere while watching videos online with Turn Off the Lights. This powerful browser extension dims everything on the web page except for the video you are watching, bringing your focus to the content that matters most. 🏆🥇 Turn Off the Lights browser extension has also been featured on several popular websites, including Lifehacker, CNET, ZDNet, BuzzFeed, and PC World. With its growing popularity and positive feedback, it is no surprise that the Turn Off the Lights browser extension has become one of the most popular and trusted browser extensions in the market. 🔷 Please share your feedback, suggestions, and thoughts with us https://www.turnoffthelights.com/support Enjoy a simplified browsing experience with the Turn Off the Lights browser extension. With just one click on the lamp button, your page will smoothly fade into darkness, focusing automatically on the video. Another click restores the page to its original state. Explore additional customization options on the Turn Off the Lights Options page to tailor your viewing experience to your preferences. Turn Off the Lights is a lightweight and useful add-on designed for a more comfortable watching experience. It is more than just a dimming tool; it is your gateway to an enhanced viewing experience tailored for three key types of users: + Video Lovers: Whether you are binge-watching your favorite series or catching up on the latest viral clips, Turn Off the Lights creates the perfect ambiance for uninterrupted viewing pleasure. + Dark Mode Enthusiasts: Embrace the dark side of browsing with Turn Off the Lights, converting all websites into your personalized dark mode theme. + Eye Protection Advocates: Shield your eyes from harsh screen glare and blue light emissions. With its accessibility features, Turn Off the Lights helps prioritize your visual health while you enjoy your favorite online content. Plus, keep the dark layer always enabled, even when you click on a hyperlink. Browser extension features: ◆ Effortless Control: Toggle the lights with a simple click, effortlessly enhancing your viewing pleasure, akin to reading a newspaper with a dark reader tint. ◆ Cinematic Experience: Dive into your favorite videos without distractions as everything else fades into the background. ◆ Support multiple video sites: Enjoy distraction-free viewing on YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Twitch, and more of your favorite platforms. ◆ Enhance your YouTube experience with features like: - Auto HD: Set videos to play in HD automatically. Users can select from highres > 8K > 5K > 4K > 1080p > 720p > 480p > 360p > 240p > 144p > default. - Auto Wide: Automatically adjusts the video to the widest mode for enhanced viewing. - 60 FPS Block: Disable YouTube 60 FPS and watch YouTube Auto HD 30 FPS video quality. - Top Layer: Place elements at the top of the dark layer, such as the number of YouTube subscribers, title, video suggestions, etc. ◆ Multitasking: Watch your video with Audio Visualisation in Picture-in-picture (PiP) mode, maximizing productivity without sacrificing entertainment. ◆ Easter Eggs: Shortcut key: Tap 'T' for a genuine movie theater ambiance, bringing nostalgia to your viewing sessions. T -> Do you like a real movie theater feeling? ◆ Option to make the screen dark when the user clicks on the play button: Enhance immersion by dimming the surroundings when the video starts playing. ◆ Option to turn on/off the fade in and fade out effects: Tailor your experience by toggling the transition effects according to your preference. ◆ Custom Dark Layer: Personalize the dark layer with your preferred color and opacity value. Alternatively, select your own background image to use as the dark layer. ◆ Option to Show Dimness Level Bar: Keep track of the dimness level with a visible indicator for better control. ◆ Eye Protection Options: Ensure comfortable viewing, especially at night, with customizable eye protection settings. - A screen shader that blends the web page with an orange color to reduce eye strain and fatigue, while also supporting your brain's day/night cycle. - An option to click through the dark layer and keep the lights always off. - Whitelist/blacklist filters for greater control over your browsing experience. ◆ Option to show the dark layer on the top of the window: Enjoy enhanced focus by obscuring distractions outside of the video window. ◆ Custom Colors: Personalize the lighting with custom colors to match your mood or aesthetic. ◆ Multimedia Detection: Option to enable flash objects, iframe video elements, and more to appear on top of the dark layer. ◆ Dimness Level Bar: Display a floating dimness level bar at the bottom of the current web page for easy adjustment of the dark layer opacity. ◆ Nighttime Eye Protection: Activate eye protection mode during nighttime browsing with customizable whitelist/blacklist filters. ◆ Atmosphere Lighting: Experience an immersive glow around the video player, adding to the ambiance of your viewing environment. - Vivid Mode: Realistic and lifelike color glow effects match the video content - One solid: 1 Custom color around the video player - Four solid: 4 Custom colors around the video player ◆ Dark Layer Overlay: Choose to show a dark layer overlay on top of the window for enhanced focus. ◆ Shortcut Keys: Ctrl + Shift + L: Toggle the lights Alt + F8: Restore default opacity value Alt + F9: Save current opacity value Alt + F10: Enable/disable the Eye Protection feature Alt + (Arrow Up): Increase opacity Alt + (Arrow Down): Decrease opacity Alt + *: Toggle lights on all open tabs ◆ Mouse Wheel Volume Control: Adjust the volume using your mouse wheel for individual video players. ◆ Video Player Filters: Apply various filters like grayscale, sepia, invert, contrast, saturate, hue rotation, and brightness to the current video player. ◆ Audio Visualization Effects: Enjoy visual effects like blocks, frequency, and music tunnel on top of the current video. ◆ Full Tab Video Player: Expand the video player to fill your entire current tab for immersive viewing. ◆ Video Looping: Loop your current video player for continuous playback. ◆ Night Mode: Transform all websites into your personalized dark mode theme or switch between black and white themes. - Customizable whitelist/blacklist to apply night mode selectively to certain websites. - Timestamp: Activate Night Mode within specified time intervals. - Blackout: Dim the web page and activate Night Mode. - Darker Images: Dim images when dark mode is enabled. - Customizable Colors: Personalize background, text, hyperlink, and button colors to match your preferred dark theme settings. - Option to convert Dark Mode PDF files, network files, and local files ◆ Stop Auto-Playing: Prevent YouTube and HTML5 videos from automatically playing. ◆ Video Screen Capture: Capture snapshots of YouTube and HTML5 videos with customizable filters such as Invert, Blur, Saturation, Grayscale, Hue rotate, etc. And save the screenshot in PNG, JPEG, BMP, or WEBP image format. ◆ Custom Toolbar Icon: Select your preferred toolbar icon in either light or dark mode, adapting to your visual preferences. ◆ Zoom In or Out the Video: Adjust the zoom level of the video player content. ◆ Customizable Video Playback Rate: Adjust the playback rate for optimal viewing. ◆ Game Controller Support: Control the current video player using Xbox and PlayStation game controllers. ◆ Translated into 55 languages ◆ And more… Do not forget to Like & Follow Us: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/turnoffthelight X https://www.x.com/TurnOfftheLight Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/turnoffthelight Instagram https://www.instagram.com/turnoffthelights YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@turnoffthelights Project Information: https://www.turnoffthelights.com/browser Required Permissions: ◆ "contextMenus": This permission allows the addition of the "Darken this page" menu item to the web browser's context menu. ◆ "tabs": This permission allows us to display the welcome and guide page, detect the currently playing video, take a screenshot of the video, and provide options to dim all open tabs. ◆ "storage": Save settings locally and sync with your web browser account. ◆ "webNavigation": This permission is used to load the Night Mode feature before the web page is fully loaded, providing an instant Dark Mode experience. ◆ "scripting": This permission allows injecting JavaScript and CSS into websites. ◆ "<all_urls>": Control the lamp button on all websites, including http, https, ftp, and file. ———————— Free and Open Source: https://github.com/turnoffthelights Licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 (GPLv2), we believe in the principles of transparency and collaboration. ———————— Compatible with Adblock, AdBlock Pus, Adguard AdBlocker, and uBlock Origin browser extension. Note: YouTube is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions. Turn Off the Lights™ is not created by, affiliated with, or supported by Google Inc.

Latest reviews

(2025-05-29) Var CK: It needs an update something has been bugging it, its been having so much issue that I had to always close the browser and reload the page to have this extension working again...
(2025-05-19) John Mark Parpan (Johnmark): great extension without video distraction.
(2025-05-16) Leonel Silva (lsilva): It's a great extension, I love dark modes and it makes it more enjoyable to watch videos without the distraction of the text. I've been using it for years, and now it also has several functionalities such as being able to make it activate automatically when you press play, select websites where it works automatically, or specific sites where it doesn't activate automatically. It's very good, congratulations to the developers!
(2025-05-04) Péter Benkő: amazing feature. far the best add for chrome!
(2025-04-14) scout johari: captions don't work, they show behind the video playing though. otherwise perfect extension, unfortunately i heavily rely on captions to process information.
(2025-03-24) Oliver Petty: Refreshed my page, Restarted my browser, Restarted my pc and still, the symbol doesn't show up.
(2025-03-19) Iphone Samsung: Does not work from 1 week, im feeling too much irritated without this after being addicted please fix for god sake, "dont say me to disable my other extension, no" the video is just too dim instead of focus of light EDIT: I never write any review for any tool for my time, now i took my precious time for this and found best alternative, Good bye
(2025-03-13) mihadz ainal: Somehow the functions didn't work (dark mode, undims when paused, etc) except the main idea. Still pretty cool, just more manual than claimed, plz fix this
(2025-01-31) Ali Heydari (‫آقای ربات‬‎): nice*3789
(2025-01-28) Captin Pengu: It just dims the screen man it kinda sucks no offense or anything
(2025-01-27) Callie Alreza: Would give 10000000000 stars if I could.
(2025-01-22) Ghulam Shabir: Try
(2025-01-21) Sold ByPaid: Great for the eyes!
(2025-01-11) thomas u6]b00: gg
(2025-01-11) Muhammad adnan (Adnan): It is a good extension but the fact i have to remove other extensions is kinda annoying because i also need them is there any fix for that?
(2025-01-09) Stephanie Hettich: NOW IT WORKS FOR ME TO WATCH VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE! THANKS TURN OFF THE LIGHTS YOUR THE BEST AT WORKING ON THIS 🥳
(2024-12-29) Mike Zou: COMPLETELY MESSES UP THE SEARCH BAR, AND VIDEO PREVIEWS
(2024-12-29) April: forced install of other apps with no way to contact support about this issue
(2024-12-26) Francisco Medina: Hi, I have a new laptop and when I try to use the extension it dims all of the window, including the youtube video. It works in my desktop pc, I don't know why is not working here.
(2024-12-24) Aiden Chen: Best Extension Ever. Dimming feature is great.
(2024-12-16) KeKe: I honestly don't care about the dimming feature. What I do care about is the option to control automatic video quality on all sites. It works and it's amazing for saving my data. Specifically when Crunchyroll wants to play ads at 1080p and gives me no options to control their video quality. I had a hard time finding anything that could do this and I'd say it's the number 1 best feature of this extension. 10/10. this feature needs more promoting. Only suggestion would be have a whitelist and blacklist option for the video quality since some sites do remember my preferences and aren't dcks about eating my data.
(2024-12-14) Mia Leopardi: I probably should have used this extension for a little while before taking a star-rating-stab-in-the-dark, but if it does what it claims, with minimal confusion and sloppy inversions, I'm all for it
(2024-12-14) ARSA GAMING: I personally recommend you this extension if you like to watch anime !!
(2024-11-23) Wayne Sailor: Yeah, no thanks. It might be nice for videos but using it to dim white web pages sucks. Soon as you click somewhere it does back to white and doesn't stay dim. What is the point? Uninstalled after 5 min. This would be fine if you are not doing anything o the page or just reading. But if you are looking for a dark mode so white web pages don't hurt your eyes and are clicking anywhere for any reason, this will not work for you.
(2024-11-19) Scoreggia Puzzolente: Excellent tool. My eyes feel rested and my brain at ease with the toned down bright lighting from my monitor. Thanks for the shade!
(2024-11-15) genymotion testuser: block 60 fps feature not working.
(2024-11-15) Daniel Triplett (usjet333): Does everything it promises, and does it well.
(2024-11-13) Darien Diyari: Hey I have a question how do I enable it on the YouTube app
(2024-10-27) Raul Souza: I love this extension! thank you!
(2024-10-25) Sean Ravenhill: Does what it says on the Tin and more. The dev behind this extension is also very good with support and communications. Get's 5 stars from me!
(2024-10-23) Admir Babajic: Nice !
(2024-10-18) CalAndFlynn Kratzer: It Works So Well
(2024-10-14) Sean B: Doesn't work at all on amazon.
(2024-10-06) Chrome Book: This is good For a YouTube lover. Thanks for this tool dear Developer.
(2024-09-28) Sính Ngô Văn: it's the very good science thank you
(2024-09-25) D Boy: I LOVE IT IT IS THE BEST
(2024-09-16) Daniel Amune: Perfect
(2024-08-26) Devante Weary: Once you start using this extension, you can't go back. I use it for YouTube of course but also Rumble/Locals and a few other video sites. To me, this is something that should be BUILT IN to YouTube. It looks better, but also declutters your desktop and just kinda makes it a little easier to focus on what you're watching. Hands down one of my first extension downloads on any new browser installation. Thank you and keep it up guys!!
(2024-08-20) My Name is Ram!: It's dark really nice and it's kinda like a cinema
(2024-08-19) PixelM4ster: AMAZING!!! 5/5 star, no drama.
(2024-08-18) Shefali Tyagi: very nice
(2024-08-15) Michaela Fuchs: top
(2024-08-15) 3D Saxon: very well
(2024-08-15) Misheck Ndirangu: really good
(2024-08-10) Brandon Miller: Very nice, helps me keep from distractions when curating video content! Refresh after you download before thinking it doesn't work! It's a browser thing, not an extension thing. Cheers!
(2024-08-03) Thắm Huỳnh Ngọc: ok
(2024-07-31) Papa Holt: my son tryed it the icon did not show up
(2024-07-27) pratyesh dixit: thanks its realy work. satisfied
(2024-07-27) Dai Quang Tran: Very excellent
(2024-07-24) LN Link: instead of putting the video in full screen or using dark mode, it was way easier to use this extension. i can't believe it took me this long to find this extension. wow!

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