Reviews for Midnight Lizard
Midnight Lizard by Pavel Agarkov
Review by The Pfaffinator
Rated 4 out of 5
by The Pfaffinator, 7 years agoI am so happy to have a universal "dark mode" for browsing that is customizable like this! I have tried dozens of dark mode Firefox extensions, and none of them give the granular control and theme customization that Midnight Lizard does.
The only reasons I didn't give 5 stars are:
1) Saving changes to an existing theme is a bit cumbersome. Any change made sets the theme to "custom" instead of the theme I was currently using. Then I have to click Color Schemes, then choose the one you are editing from the dropdown, then enter the name again in the box before clicking "save". I'd like to be able to update the current theme by clicking "Apply" on the main screen.
2) The toolbar icon for this extension is very brightly colored, and rather too small to see the detail in certain browser themes. It would be nice to have a monochrome, simple geometric icon that blends with the rest of the native themes, or the ability for the user to customize the icon.
Other than that, great work, and thank you very much for helping me use my browser without burning out my retinas (the web is normally way too bright).
Also, thanks for the Solarized-like scheme on the forums. Please make it a built in theme, since I know I'm not the only person wanting it.
The only reasons I didn't give 5 stars are:
1) Saving changes to an existing theme is a bit cumbersome. Any change made sets the theme to "custom" instead of the theme I was currently using. Then I have to click Color Schemes, then choose the one you are editing from the dropdown, then enter the name again in the box before clicking "save". I'd like to be able to update the current theme by clicking "Apply" on the main screen.
2) The toolbar icon for this extension is very brightly colored, and rather too small to see the detail in certain browser themes. It would be nice to have a monochrome, simple geometric icon that blends with the rest of the native themes, or the ability for the user to customize the icon.
Other than that, great work, and thank you very much for helping me use my browser without burning out my retinas (the web is normally way too bright).
Also, thanks for the Solarized-like scheme on the forums. Please make it a built in theme, since I know I'm not the only person wanting it.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi! Thank you for the review.
1) It works this way historically since originally there were no predefined color schemes at all. And this is true only when you are editing Default or Custom color schemes which also were introduced much later. But for Default color scheme to save your changes you can use Set as default. Just one click will do both save and apply the changes.
So meaning of Apply button was defined when it was absolutely logical and I couldn't later change it and break existing users' expectations. But probably I can duplicate Save button near to Apply (and make it even more confusing :)
2) That's a good point. Will try to implement it in the future.
*) There will be a website with more color schemes to choose from soon.
1) It works this way historically since originally there were no predefined color schemes at all. And this is true only when you are editing Default or Custom color schemes which also were introduced much later. But for Default color scheme to save your changes you can use Set as default. Just one click will do both save and apply the changes.
So meaning of Apply button was defined when it was absolutely logical and I couldn't later change it and break existing users' expectations. But probably I can duplicate Save button near to Apply (and make it even more confusing :)
2) That's a good point. Will try to implement it in the future.
*) There will be a website with more color schemes to choose from soon.
626 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 5489333, 24 days agoThis extension was recommended to me as a way to force dark text on light background on websites. Well, I tried. None of the sliders in extension config appear to do anything; the predefined themes only have "and add some ridiculous tint all over" takes on "light mode". I thought, perhaps I could make a copy of some "light" theme and try to adjust that? Nope, you can only rename predefined themes, not make duplicates. Ok, then maybe I could export a theme, edit the exported file, and import that back as a new theme? NOPE. "Color schemes import from files is not supported in Firefox." Why is that "import" button even there then?
- Rated 4 out of 5by medium_sized_turtle, a month agoWhy does the settings menu have to be bright white to burn my eyeballs? Especially with this being a dark mode extension...Otherwise its good.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Daniel, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dio, 4 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by agachaul, 8 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18870877, 8 months agodoesn't let you create your own color schemes instead uses some bullsht "color scheme generator" which is badly designed.
to the reply: hmm I wonder why people wanted simple colors? is it maybe because THERE IS NO WAY TO INPUT A COLOR YOU ACTUALLY WANT AND YOU JUST HAVE TO EYEBALL ITDeveloper response
posted 8 months agoColor scheme generator was introduced since some users wanted to operate with simple colors, but creation of color schemes is possible from the beginning - just make changes to one of the existing color schemes and save the changes as new color scheme or update the existing one. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19060098, 9 months agoI can't read white text on a black background without my eyes hurting a lot so this has been AMAZING.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Davide, a year agoHi there, is it also possible to export / import all settings to an .xml file or something ?
Thank you!Developer response
posted 8 months agothere is a sync that you can use to have the same settings on all devices, but if you really want to export then please take a look on support forum - there are topics related to this - Rated 5 out of 5by Alec, a year ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17854828, a year agoPlease make it work on kotlinlang org/docs/coroutines-basics html (URL's are not allowed).
I need to turn off the add-on, reload the page and turn on the add-on again to see the page. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18611515, a year ago
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- Rated 4 out of 5by curlew, 2 years agogreat, but tricky to pinpoint filter setting affects and how they affect each other! youtube is also weird and its impossible to read text overlaying a video unless you highlight it, no matter what filter settings you change.
- Rated 5 out of 5by origin80417, 2 years ago