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Turn Off the Lights - Browser Extension

- Windows Internet Explorer
- Firefox
- Opera
- Safari
- Google Chrome

Welcome

Video

Welcome

Lights Off

Turn Off the Lights is a free extension for you browser. It give you focus to a video and make it around the video it dark. It work for all video sites such as YouTube, Vimeo,... and also on the social networks work this extension great. Focus Now. Always. Everywhere.

Lamp

When the installation is complete, you will see in the toolbar (or Omnibar) the light gray lamp icon listed. And with one click on the button, it darker the page and give it focus on the video. No video found, then the page just go dark.

Video sites

Social Network

Today, social network is the most popular website where you can see you status of your your friends, upcoming events...
And here you can together and share video. This extension works well on sites like FaceBook, MySpace, Netlog and many other social networking sites.

News

The major messages are displayed on one page, click on the lamp to find a video and focus it. Perfect example on the CNN.com news site.

Blogger/Business Sites

An example where this extension also works at the company site as google.com. Here you can see all their html5 video focusing on the video.

Video sites

This extension works great on all the popular video sites like YouTube videos, Vimeo, Megavideo, Justin.tv, Dailymotion and so much more.

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Autoplay

Let turn you lights automatic off when you play a YouTube or even watch a HTML5 video. And if you click the pause button, it will return back to the original appearance of the page.
Click back on the play button, it will fade back into the darkness.

Fade effect

The effect you see from light to dark is called the fade effect. This is one of the most important part of an entertainment in this extension. By default, the opacity by apparently is set to 80%. But you can always change it in the options page.

Colors

Do you not like black? Then you can choose between thousands of different colors in the options page. Or just show your own background image.

Flash Detection

If you enable this option, it will search for all the Flash player, Flash games, etc. And give them all focus to the foreground.
This option is especially interesting for internet games you want to get focus on it.

Opacity Level Bar

Turn this option on in the options page, then on every time you page go dark, it show right at the bottom of the page a bar. In this bar, you can change direct you appearance of the dark level.

Eye Protection

If this option is enabled, every page you open will be fully dimmed to the settings you set.

Context menu

If you enable this option in my options page, it is possible to use the right mouse click the focus a video player (HTML 5 video player), or bring the full page to dark.

YouTube Adjustments

Also there are many more option possible for custom you YouTube video site. Such as displaying the current video channel, the video title, description of the video, suggestion bar, share buttons and the playlist below the video to show when the light is off.

Cloud Update

If you turn the cloud update on, you receive the latest update for all video sites that focus correct the video. When enable this feature, it check weekly for update and download automatic to you browser extension version. The update are small and fast.

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Easter Eggs

Fun must be everwhere, right?
Well, here in this extension there is a hidden easter eggs.

When you turn the lights off (so dark), then press on your keyboard the letter T. You get the following message on screen: Do you like a real movie theater?
Click OK, and you get a cinematic background behind your video. If video is finished with playing, click on the cinema background to remove it.

Mouse

Below few options to navigate easy on a website without losing any comfort of reading and watching video.

Spotlight

When you enable this option and the lights is off. It show a spotlight around you mouse, so you can click on the link of the current open page.

Superman

This the codename i give for this option, with this you can click throught the dark element and open that link, without the lights go back on.

Select custom area

Select self a area to focus a item, example a text part or image you want to see only. Just click and hold the left click, drag and lost the click.

Ambilight

This is the amazing feature of the browser extension, it bring a ambilight effect around the playing video. It work for HTML5 video's and YouTube website.

Colors

There is two kind of option you can choose. A option to detect the color of the video and show that as ambilight effect. Or you can set self a custom color for all video's.

Radius

You can change the blur & spread radius of the ambilight effect in the option page.

Installation

Browsers

Check first if you install the latest version of you browser. Here below on this page, you see a list of link where you can download the browser:

Over-the-air updates

You always get the latest version of my extension. If a newer version is available, the "Turn Off the Lights" extension automatically get update to the latest version, so you always get the latest great features. The update packages are small and is completely free.

Available

This extension work for all browser 3 version of Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer 4 users . Not all features are inside each browser version added. Example: autoplay, fade effects, context menu is only available for Google Chrome, Safari, Opera and Firefox.

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Press Review

Review

Many bloggers and journalists found this great browser extension, to help them focus the show on the video they want to watch. With support for all popular video sites.
With 'eye protection' to protect their eyes from that white light sheet of web pages.
View the full review of our Chrome extension by pressing the star icon next to this button.

Quote Newspaper

Below are the quotes from the world press about our browser extension.

If you’re watching a video online, but can’t increase it to full-screen size, then this handy extension will dim the background of the screen, so you can focus solely on the video.
- Claudine Beaumont, telegraph.co.uk

Enjoy your media with less bright distractions like animated ads and banners.
- Nicole Cozma, CNET Journal

Fazit: Eine wirklich gelungene Erweiterung für Firefox. Sie ist Pflicht für jeden, der gerne Filme und Videos im Internet ansieht.
- chip.de

Awesome Safari Extension
- Florence Ion, maclife.com

Twitter Review

@borrowedangels

Thank God for this 'Turn off the lights' extension on chrome. I makes everything less bright.

@jjongism

RT @NegaAuf: I love my Turn Off The Lights extension on Chrome. :]

@jtotheello

and do you use your 'turn off the lights' chrome extension when you watch videos? #yeahyou

1. Is only for the Google Chrome, Safari, Opera and Firefox extension.
2. Windows Internet Explorer doesn't got all the features yet.
3. In the latest version of Google Chrome 6, Safari 5.0.1, Opera 11, Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 or higher.
4. Not all features are not available for this browser. Example the color chooser, autoplay and context menu are not available.

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