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: A Comfortable Reading Experience
"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.
Add-on stats
Weekly download count: 30
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact 
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- *://*/*
- storage
- activeTab
- tabs
Size: 195.80K
Email: de*****@sidhant.io
URLs: Website
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Add-on summary
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
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Works well for dimming bright screens at night.
- Provides a gentle grayed effect compared to other addons like DarkReader.
- Icon in the address bar for easy activation on specific sites.
Cons
- Issues with specific sites like YouTube and Facebook leading to display problems.
- No interactive options for editing blacklist/whitelist settings.
- Occasional failure to apply dark theme preferences after opening new tabs.
Most mentioned
- Problems with how sites are displayed (e.g., light themes instead of dark)
- Desire for customizable site-specific settings.
- Complaints about image and color inversion on certain pages.
User reviews
The application works. But all sites that correctly recognize the system theme start to be displayed in a light theme when the extension is enabled. Of course, it would be better to analyze the dominant color of the page after it is loaded, and enable or disable the extension for this site. But black and white lists would be enough. However, the extension settings page with the sections "Disable Owl On These Websites", "Use Classic Theme On These Websites" and "Always Enable Owl On These Websites" is not available for editing, and is a static page without interactive elements. Mozilla Firefox 132.0 (64-bit).
by Korwin, 2024-10-24
Basically good.
But for me, scrolling on e.g. Amazon deteriorates considerably. (Win10, latest FF)
by Firefox user 12760379, 2023-08-26
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Owl - Dark Background requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Owl - Dark Background has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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