Reviews for Owl - Dark Background
Owl - Dark Background by tk
23 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 5612562, 2 years agoWorks nice, I just wish there was a way to only make it apply to specific sites and leave all the others alone
- Rated 4 out of 5by Merme, 2 years agoThe only thing I would complain about is that Owl should be disabled by default when a native CSS dark theme is detected
- Rated 4 out of 5by doomvox, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Giorgio P., 4 years agoI use this extension since long time, and I find the dark-theme result way better then DarkReader. While DarkReader give you a full blackened theme, this will give a "grayed" effect, more gentle on the eye.
The only drawback is an annoying issue which affect the action "open in a new tab". Whenever you open a new tab there's a 30-50% cache that your preference for the website is not applied, resulting in the opposite result of what you expect. Refreshing solve the issue, but is annoying nonetheless. - Rated 4 out of 5by siaVash, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15248138, 5 years agoIt worls pretty well, except for emoticons on Facebook, in the Top Options Bar... and the REAL Problem, it reverses or makes NEGATIVE the Images on pages, especially .JPG's & .gif's... some Videos have the same problem.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14798288, 6 years agoGreat app but really need to fix medias getting inverted colors (youtube videos, photos in messenger etc.)
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14301509, 6 years agoPretty good, but the enable/disable is to coarse for me. I use Gmail and Tasks canvas and they should have different settings although both in mail.google.com domain.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13566508, 7 years agogood addon,
but pdf dark mode doesn't work anymore (on linux)
and somtimes dark mode sites are light grey by accident, (a page reload fixes it) - Rated 4 out of 5by Airsucker, 7 years agoThis is awesome for someone who is light sensitive or gets light induced migraines. The only problem I've run into so far is that it doesn't interact perfectly with FB. A few things get obscured or the page goes back to what you had been looking a previously, but FB is notoriously difficult to work with.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Richard, 7 years agoI must be missing something as the website white list is not editable that I can see. So perhaps set up a tutorial or tell me how to enable this feature as I have some websites I don't want your extension working it's inversion magic on. Other than that nice little plugin here. Also the menu is not there when I click or right click on the own icon, I just get remove or customize, the usual menu bar configuration options you get for the bar itself but nothing for the plugin. Thanks!
- Rated 4 out of 5by asifmahbub, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13889377, 7 years agoDarkens all the colours, respecting the original ones, not inverting them. Thanks!
- Rated 4 out of 5by abortionparty, 7 years agoOwl is an eye-saver. It does an excellent job of making pages less tiring to look at.
One can only turn the brightness down so much. I am one who prefers dark backgrounds and themes in general because the white backgrounds with black text just burn the heck out of my eyes.
I have had no issues with this add-on/extension whatsoever and I have been using it for a long time. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13840862, 7 years agoI love owl. I am 70 and white is too bright for me anymore. The problem is with sites pop ups that pop up blocker does not block, whites out the screen so you have to turn off owl to turn off pop up window then re apply owl, which is a pain. popup blocker should work in tandem with owl. Am I missing something?
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12823134, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Nacon, 7 years agoThis does work well, however, depending on some websites, it would invert colors on HTML5 videos and YouTube videos on fullscreen mode.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13554259, 7 years agoI find this very useful. There are only a couple of fixes I would like to see in the future:
1) In Facebook, with Owl enabled, the small Messenger window is rendered useless because it doesn't stay in place. The top Facebook bar also doesn't stay in place. And it is impossible to go to the top of the page with keyboard commands -- only by scrolling up with the mouse.
2) In Youtube, with Owl enabled, videos are somewhat choppy. In fullscreen, or with Owl disabled, they run smoothly.
I hope these problems are fixed, so that Owl becomes even better. Thank you. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13506854, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13492268, 7 years agoThe darkened websites are very easy on the eyes. I can't figure out how to disable Owl on some sites, but leave it enabled on others.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13321014, 7 years agoUnsure how to add websites to exclusion list, right click context menu shows no option. Please advise
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi, please try using Shift+Alt+X, or toggle the 'Disable on this site' from the owl drop-down in the address bar. - Rated 4 out of 5by wsensor, 8 years agoMy last review had said about a problem however that was caused by it being disabled on a website.
However I wish I could still get the menu to popup from the icon (only turns it on and off T_T) instead of having to use the menu icon that is in the search bar. As the search bar icon does not show up if the plugin has been disabled on a website.Developer response
posted 8 years agoHi,
Thanks for using Owl. I understand the recent design change isn't the best interface for Owl and that the previous UI was a lot more intuitive. Unfortunately, I was forced to change the design because the newer Firefox API (Webextensions) doesn't allow for custom drop-down buttons (like the one in v1.x). I'll try my best to look for a workaround for this, as many users (myself included) miss the old interface, but till that happens we'd have to work with this one :)
Thanks again for reviewing