Midnight Lizard is a highly customizable, open-source browser extension for Google Chrome, Firefox, and Edge designed to drastically reduce eye strain by replacing bright website backgrounds with custom dark modes, night themes, and color filters. Unlike basic invert-color tools, it transforms the aesthetic of web pages dynamically while maintaining the original quality of images. 🛠️ Core Features
Granular Customization: Allows full control to modify colors for backgrounds, texts, buttons, links, borders, and scrollbars.
Predefined Themes: Includes diverse pre-built modes like high-contrast dark themes, grayscale, colorful schemes, and screen shaders.
Per-Website Settings: Grants the ability to set unique color profiles for individual sites or toggle a global blacklist/whitelist.
Blue Light Filter: Shifts screen hues toward a warmer spectrum to emulate natural sunlight patterns during evening hours.
Advanced Adjustments: Features precise sliders to modify overall page brightness, contrast, and saturation.
Automated Scheduling: Automatically turns the extension on or off based on preferred hours of the day. ⚖️ Pros and Cons Complete Color Freedom: Pick any custom color.
Performance Cost: Can slow down page load times on heavy sites. No Image Inversion: Preserves original photo hues. Complex Interface: Learning curve due to numerous menus. Local File Support: Works on PDFs and offline files.
Dynamic Content Glitches: Occasional visual issues on complex pages. ⌨️ Default Keyboard Shortcuts
You can instantly control the extension anywhere using these commands: Current Website Toggle: Alt + Shift + L Global Extension Toggle: Alt + Shift + M
The project is fully open-source, and its source code is publicly accessible on the Midnight Lizard GitHub Repository.
If you would like to dive deeper, let me know if you want to learn about: How it compares directly to Dark Reader How to activate it for local PDFs Ways to optimize its performance settings Midnight Lizard – Chrome Web Store