Owl - Dark Background

Owl - Dark Background

Owl makes your online experience comfortable by changing the theme of webpages to a soothing dark theme with light text. Complete with site-wise settings, multiple themes and great customizability, Owl tried to minimize the strain on your eyes.

  • Owl - Dark Background
  • Owl - Dark Background
  • Owl - Dark Background
  • Owl - Dark Background
  • Owl - Dark Background
  • Owl - Dark Background
  • Owl - Dark Background
What is Owl - Dark Background?
"Owl - Dark Background" is a Firefox add-on designed to reduce eye strain for long hours of browsing. With a soothing dark theme and light text, it creates a night-friendly browsing mode. It also allows for customization, enabling/disabling on certain sites, and has a quick toggle feature for convenience.
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By: tk
Rating: 4.02 (121)
Version: 2.2.8 (Last updated: 2021-05-15)
Creation date: 2015-06-23
Weekly download count: 18
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • *://*/*
  • storage
  • activeTab
  • tabs
Size: 195.80K
URLs: Website
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# 2406 ▼ 19
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An add-on to make online reading easy. If you spend long hours in front of a computer screen, you likely have developed an aversion towards those glaring white backgrounds and harsh color combinations on websites. This add-on transforms all webpages into a night-friendly mode, with dark background and dimmed colors. Features:

  • Applies dark background, lightens the text
  • Syntax Highlighting for code snippets
  • Quickly toggle Owl using Shift + Alt + D
  • Choose between two themes, the Classic theme (used in v1.1.3 and earlier), or the new and improved Inversion theme.
  • Disable Owl on websites that you don't want darkened.
  • Set Owl to start on Firefox startup, so you never have to see those bright whites again.
  • Always enable Owl on selective sites
  • Easily manage site-wise themes

If you want to submit a suggestion/bug, open an issue here or get in touch here.

If you are a developer and want to add more cool features to Owl, check out Owl on Github

User reviews
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Pros
  • Cute owl icon
  • Dark background
  • Option to enable for specific sites only
  • Readable text
  • Shadowing around tabs area
Cons
  • Deteriorates scrolling on some sites
  • Lack of adjustments
  • Should disable by default when a native CSS dark theme is detected
Most mentioned
  • Owl icon
  • Enable for specific sites
  • Text readability
Recent reviews
Basically good. But for me, scrolling on e.g. Amazon deteriorates considerably. (Win10, latest FF)
by Firefox user 12760379, 2023-08-26
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Safety
Risk impact

Owl - Dark Background is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Owl - Dark Background if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Owl - Dark Background has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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