Power Saver

Power Saver

Display consumes a lot of power, this extension turns screen dark and text bright, so that reading time on battery is extended.

What is Power Saver?
"Power Saver" is a Chrome extension that helps to significantly extend your battery life when reading online. It achieves this by turning your browser's background dark and the text bright. This consumes less energy as darker screen uses less power, thus enhancing your reading time even when you're operating on battery.
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Stats
Users: 757 ▲ 5
Rating: 1.56 (9)
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2016-06-21)
Creation date: 2016-06-21
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
Size: 16.94K
URLs: Website
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Summary

Most of the blogs, online articles have white background and darker text. This makes display use more energy to keep majority of pixels bright. So this extension turns the background dark and only light up the text-pixels.

User reviews
doesn't work on some pages... does it even save power?
by 徐Haoran 徐Haoran, 2021-05-24

same as @adam warren
by A Google user, 2019-01-25

Utter nonsense. The "power saving" changes this extension makes - making white things black - WOULD work... on an AM/OLED display. On OLED displays, pixels that are pure black are turned completely off and don't light up at all, which does save some battery. On phones with OLED or AMOLED displays, you are likely to see some battery savings by doing this. However, on desktop or laptop PCs, the chances of you having an OLED or AMOLED display are very, very, very low. Virtually no laptops have this. Therefore, this extension is total nonsense. Do not install it.
by Adam Warren Adam Warren, 2018-12-14
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Safety
Risk impact

Power Saver is safe to use. It does not request any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Power Saver has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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