Reviews for Midnight Lizard
Midnight Lizard by Pavel Agarkov
29 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by MattToronto, 7 months agoGets the job done, but the omission of a simple per-site toggle is baffling.
- Rated 3 out of 5by sadamitsuTD, 9 months agoin desperate need of updates, totally broken when used with youtube. Still, one of the few add-ons for firefox that can customize text and link colors for individual websites without .css.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Canopy1945, a year agoI love how this addon makes websites look as if it was 1994, but it's incredibly resouce hungry depending on the website you're viewing. Some websites like Artstation or Behance, just to name a couple, become virtually unusable due to how slugish everything becomes until you whitelist them.
Yes, it does have a "Simplified" mode that solves these issues, but then you have to deal with rendering issues. - Rated 3 out of 5by Mathieu, a year agoI suffer from low vision and Midnight Lizard changed my life. Unfortunately, as another user wrote below, a recent update is slowing Firefox to the point of making it unsuable. I hope the issue will be fixed soon.
- Rated 3 out of 5by frikdt, 3 years agoThis extension has allowed me to get the exact high contrast look I want for websites, seemingly not available from any existing themes - at least nothing I've been able to find. For that I give it full marks. Unfortunately I have to lower my rating because it slows down Firefox to such an extent that I had to disable it again.
- Rated 3 out of 5by padrinho, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16902006, 3 years agoDoes what it says it does, but unfortunately slows down my browser enough to where I usually just turn it off. It is nice to have if you are staying on one page for a long time.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Ъуъ, 3 years agoNot bad, but as a replacement I can offer Dark Reader as a good competitor. A more concise menu and no unnecessary settings, I use it myself.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16615365, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Noriko, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Péter Pál, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Pawel bielecki, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Zwieback74, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15978752, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14304330, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Mountain Man, 5 years agoLooks great but noticeably slows down page loading and introduces "hitches" when you scroll up and down.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Yohann Pitrey, 5 years agoThe darkening works fine, but interferes heavily on page loading times. For instance, when trying to create a new event in Google Calendar, this extension adds about 2-5 seconds between the instant I click on an empty bit of calendar and the instant the new event dialog pops up. When I want to click on the X button to close that dialog, I also have to wait a few seconds before my clikc is registered.
I installed the competitor extension Dark Reader and I don't have this problem anymore. - Rated 3 out of 5by Alfonso, 5 years agoPor qué requiere acceder a mis datos?.
La extensión queda lenta, se ve muy bien pero hace lenta la navegación. - Rated 3 out of 5by Авраам Слепой, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15048649, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Bathsheba, 6 years agoWorked for the first 6 or 8 tabs I opened, and I was all set to be happy, but now every new tab gives the "Midnight Lizard cannot connect to this page" error. Tried restarting Firefox but cannot get it to work. It's weird because it still works on those original few tabs, but no new ones. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Sorry, I actually don't mean the New Tab page, I mean every page I open.Developer response
posted 6 years agoIn this case please try to reload/refresh the page where you have this massage on.
Probably Midnight Lizard or Firefox were updated and caused the problem.
If it does not help: Are those pages with the message turned to dark?
If not: Are they represented by a regular website? (like Wikipadia and not like addons.mozilla.org)
Extensions does not work on addons.mozilla.org and all Firefox system pages. - Rated 3 out of 5by pedz, 6 years agoThis addon stylizes pages with remarkable accuracy in terms of keeping the color dynamics of the inverted material and content itself as true to the original page as possible, but dark.
The unfortunate part is that due to performance I just was kinda forced to switch to Dark Reader. DR does an pretty good job of stylizing too, but it's not nearly as good as Midnight Lizard. I suppose that all comes at a price, however. On a better PC perhaps I would switch back to ML in a heart beat.
I did try playing with the settings extensively to get better performance and was able to make it usable, but I just can't really accept big 30 second lock ups when I load a especially intensive website that ML has to chew on for that long. Having big numbers of tabs open as I'm just so inclined to do for some reason I'll never understand also begins to take a big toll a lot sooner.
If you make any optimization breakthroughs or I get better hardware I'll absolutely give it another shot. Keep up the good work.
Edit: I did try simplified mode and it helped a lot, but the performance impact could still be felt. Honestly I can't recall what pages were the worst performing, but I will say it just varied even on the same website. It seems worse the more general load the CPU is experiencing while following links. Often Firefox would throw out a slow addon message about ML so that's the reason I knew it was definitely this addon slowing the browser down. The biggest issue was loading for the first time and having ML initialize everything. That was always causing a noticeable struggle regardless of the site.Developer response
posted 6 years agoThank you for the review.
Did you try simplified mode as well?
Also can you provide a link where it took 30 seconds to load the page.
It is definitely unacceptable and I haven't seen such pages yet.
Best regards
Midnight Lizard