3 Chrome Extensions to Make Web Pages Eye-Friendly at Night

Browsing in the night with put strain on eyes. Most of us like working at night because of peace at home to research something or do something creative or challenging. In this post, I will share some Google Chrome extension that will help to browse at the night without putting any extra stress on eyes.

1. Turn off the Lights

Turn Off the Lights Browser extension is a lightweight tool to highlight the video player and darken the rest of the web page. Turn Off the Lights is a lightweight and useful add-in designed for a more comfortable watching experience. It works for all known video sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Hulu, Metacafe, YouKu, etc. Not only this but these extensions are compatible with Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Maxthon and Yandex web browsers.

Some Useful Keyboard Shortcut:

• Ctrl + Shift + L to toggle the lights
• Alt + F8 to restore the default opacity value
• Alt + F9 to save the current opacity value
• Alt + F10 to enable/disable the Eye Protection feature
• Alt + (arrow up) to increase the opacity
• Alt + (arrow down) to decrease the opacity
• Alt + * to toggle the lights on all open tabs

Download it from here – https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/turn-off-the-lights/bfbmjmiodbnnpllbbbfblcplfjjepjdn

2. Care Your Eyes

Change a webpage’s background colour to reduce or night mode to protect your eyes from the intensity of white or another lightness color. You can custom the setting of which webpage element’s background image and font colour by yourself. You can right click to change some block’s colour, and you can disable or enabled the function by context menu. You can custom the BG colour and the font colour by yourself. You can disable the extension in allweb pagespages of one site.

3. Chrome in The Dark

When you’re sitting in a dark environment browsing through bright pages is really annoying, even with your monitor setup as dark as possible.
Chrome in the dark, when enabled, modifies the page colours to be darker.
To do this there are currently 2 methods (or modes).

Reverse Colors (default)
Every ‘too bright’ background colour is converted to it’s negative (the text colour is also reversed for readability).
Pages may appear ugly, but at the very least they won’t hurt your eyes anymore (or at least less then before?).

Darken Screen
A black transparent layer is added on top of the page. This basically created an effect similar to darkening your monitor.
After installation, a new button will be added to chrome and with a single click you can enable or disable the darkening.

You may switch modes in the plugin options.

Conclusion

It’s crucial to prioritize eye safety when spending extended periods in front of a screen due to the potential strain and discomfort it can cause. Prolonged screen exposure may lead to digital eye strain, characterized by symptoms like headaches, blurred vision, and dry eyes. This discomfort can affect productivity and overall well-being.

Additionally, prolonged exposure to blue light emitted by screens may disrupt sleep patterns, impacting both the quantity and quality of rest. Protecting your eyes with measures such as taking regular breaks, adjusting screen brightness, and using blue light filters can contribute to long-term eye health and ensure a more comfortable and productive digital experience.