Night Shift: Eye-Protective Chrome Extension for Night Use
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Night Shift automatically shifts the colors of your browser content to the warmer end of the color spectrum after dark.
⚡ You need to refresh all the tabs, which were opened BEFORE the Night Shift was installed. You can also restart Chrome to refresh all the tabs at once. Otherwise, Night Shift will work only with the newly opened tabs.
⚡In accordance with the Chrome Browser policies, Night Shift is restricted to work on the Chrome Web Store and Home Page. Please open any other website (for example, YouTube) after installing this extension and check the extension in action.
Night Shift provides itself on a scheduled basis, you can choose from 3 options:
- Sunset to Sunrise (Chrome colors will be shaded every day automatically on Sunset).
- Off (manually enable the Night Shift to shade the screen)
- Custom (set up your own schedule to start up and finish display color adjustments)
Take care of your eyes. Change screen brightness to special eye-protective colors from the list or to a color that you prefer. Night shift changes the colors of the screen to warm and eye-protective shades. You can set automatically change screen mode by schedule or select a color theme for a certain website.
Working on a computer a night time may take affect your eyes. Night Shift Mode is a good opportunity to reduce screen brightening to take care of your eyes. Dark Mode isn't suitable for all websites, so applying warm colors to all websites will be the best alternative for screen tinting.
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- Highly customizable with various color options
- Easy to adjust settings at any time
- Works well with websites that have tables
- Has a whitelist feature to avoid affecting certain websites like YouTube
- Problems with dark mode not working consistently, especially in full screen
- Flashing white screens when switching pages or clicking links
- Issues with saving website addresses in the whitelist
- Incompatibility with PDFs and certain browsers like MS Edge
- Dark mode issues, frequently reported broken functionality
- Customization features requested, particularly hex/RGB inputs
- Flashing or color discrepancies when loading pages
- Whitelist functionality not saving correctly
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Night Shift requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Night Shift has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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