Compare Chrome extensions: Turn Off the Lights vs FasterWeb

Stats Turn Off the Lights Turn Off the Lights FasterWeb FasterWeb
User count 2,000,000+ 100,000+
Average rating 4.60 4.11
Rating count 33,519 181
Last updated 2023-10-12 2023-12-15
Size 3.41M 14.06K
Version 4.2.6.0 23.12.14
Short description
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. Browse the web faster.
Full summary

With a single click on the lamp button, the page will fade to dark. And automatically focus on the video. By clicking on it again, the page will return to normal.

Turn Off the Lights is a lightweight and useful add-in designed for a more comfortable watching experience.

A few great features in this browser extension:

  • Turn the lights back on, by clicking on it
  • Support multiple video sites: YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo,... and more
  • Customize your YouTube: 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 plays the video on the widest mode ,... and more
  • Easter Eggs: Shortcut key: T -> Do you like a real movie theater feeling?
  • Option to make the screen dark when the user clicks on the play button
  • Option to turn on/off the fade in and fade out effects
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FasterWeb uses just-in-time preloading; it preloads a page right before you click on it.

Faster Web works best on pages that are on the same sites. Pages to external sites are still faster but generally not enough to be noticeable.

How it works: Before you click on a link, you hover your mouse over it. When you have hovered for 65 milliseconds there is one chance out of two that you will click, so Faster Web starts preloading at this moment, leaving on average over 300 ms for the page to preload.

Pages that trigger an action (such as logging out or deleting something) are excluded. (FasterWeb won’t preload pages with a “?” in their URL.)

FasterWeb — previously called FasterChrome — is based on instant.page, a library that you can add to your site in just one minute to give it the same speed boost.

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