Reviews for Midnight Lizard
Midnight Lizard by Pavel Agarkov
618 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13986246, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Taurean, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alex, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by robs9, 6 years agoI am a color blind and this extension is simply magical, an amazing and recommended extension (for everyone)
- Rated 4 out of 5by Suanough, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14356649, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by StalkDe, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Davide, 6 years agoThe performance is too slow.
I won't write more on this idiotic one-liner web form. - Rated 4 out of 5by Muhammad Tayyab Sheikh, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14340970, 6 years ago
- 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 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14331628, 6 years agoi just got the windows 10 October update and love the dark mode feature and now to make my browsing all dark, this one makes it happen. thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by King Riku, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Erik Rossing, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14307927, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13000042, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by The Pfaffinator, 6 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.Developer response
posted 6 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. - Rated 4 out of 5by Elmer Fiqi, 6 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14275791, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14274749, 6 years ago