"Theater Mode" is a Chrome extension that enhances your video-watching experience by darkening the entire webpage, allowing you to enjoy videos without distractions. Activate it easily by clicking the toolbar button after starting the video. It features a whitelist option for permanent exclusions on specific sites. Note that it's designed specifically for video content; normal browsing will result in a darkened page. Report bugs or request features on the extension's homepage.
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Theater Mode is an extension that helps you focus on the video when watching online content. It simply darkens the whole page except the video element and let you watch the video without any distractions.
Please note that theater mode is not designed for normal browsing. Only enable it if you want to watch a video, otherwise, the whole page will be dark. There is also a whitelist feature in case you want to permanently exclude a website from theater mode.
To work with this addon, simply open a website with video content(s). Start (play) the video and then click on the theater mode button in the toolbar. The whole page will be converted to dark but the video remains visible. If you have a feature request or found a bug to report, please fill the bug report form on the addon homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/theater-mode.html).
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Pros
Works well for watching videos and online courses
Helps users focus by removing UI distractions
Useful for movie streaming
Allows customization of video display
Cons
Does not work for some users
Inconsistent performance across different videos
Most mentioned
Wonderful extension
Very useful
Works well
Helpful for video viewing
Recent reviews
Wonderful Extension! these type of extensions are very rare on internet. this should deserve more recognition, you can actually remove almost every kind of UI element on a web player with this extension. kudos to the dev for making this awesome thing
Very useful extension! I like to use it when watching videos for my online courses. Makes it a lot easier to focus on the video and not get distracted by everything else on the page.