Usage Night Eye surf the web interface dark background

Night Eye is a utility to surf the web on Chrome or Firefox with a dark background interface to avoid harming the user's eyes.

Currently Windows 10 has added a dark background interface to use, but with versions from Windows 10 and below, this feature is not yet available. If you want to surf the web on Chrome or Firefox with the dark background interface to reduce damage to the eyes, you can use the Night Eye utility.

Night Eye will use mainstream black for the web interface to soften the viewers' eyes when surfing the web at night. In addition, users can choose colors other than black. The following article will guide readers to use the Night Eye utility on Chrome.

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How to switch web interface to dark background

Step 1:

Read the link below to install Night Eye utility on Chrome or Firefox.

  1. Download Night Eye to Chrome
  2. Download Night Eye for Firefox

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Step 2:

After installation, click on the Night Eye icon at the end of the address bar. Click OK to use the utility.

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There will be 3 interface modes for users to choose to use the browser is Dark, Filtered, Normal.

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Step 3:

Dark interface mode will cover the black background on every website that users access on Chrome. On some sites images will also be switched to dark backgrounds as images often take up more resources on the computer to display. If you do not want to darken the image, click Image then click Off and select Apply.

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Then there are 2 different options including:

  1. Apply to all websites: Turn off the feature to darken images on all websites.
  2. Apply to current website: Only turn off the feature on this site.

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Also in this mode, users can customize colors (Colors), brightness (Brightness), contrast (Contrast), Staturation, Blue light, and dimness (Dim ) for this interface.

Customize the horizontal bar and click Apply. If you want to return to the default Chrome mode, click Reset.

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Step 4:

The Filtered interface will bring the web interface to the default light background, but users can still adjust the brightness, contrast, and blurring, etc. Normal mode will bring the web interface back to the normal interface.

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Step 5:

On the utility there is a Power button to pause or use the utility without disabling the utility.

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To re-use the dark background interface, just press Turn on .

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Step 6:

In case the user wants to quickly activate the dark background interface on the Chrome browser through the Night Eye utility, it is possible to set the quick launch shortcut for the dark background mode.

Click the 3-dot mark and then on the browser select Other tools , select Next Extensions .

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Step 7:

Switch to the setting interface and click on the 3 dashes icon and select Shortcuts .

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Go to the Night Eye utility and enter the shortcut to quickly activate the dark background for the Chrome interface.

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Night Eye utility on Chrome brings many different options for the dark background interface, adding other elements to the interface such as light, contrast, color, etc. We can quickly activate via Shortcuts set on Chrome.

See more:

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I wish you all success!

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