FIREFOX
Dark modeis becoming ubiqui tous
but not everyone wants gloomy black
to dominate their computer screen.
Night Shift (bit.ly/night 476) is a
browser tool that “automatically shifts
the colours of your browser content to
the warmer en d of th e colour spectrum
after dark”.
Mojave for macOS in troduced a
feat ure that altered your ba ckground
according to the ti me of day – almost
as if the sun was rising and setting on
your screen in real time – and
smartphones have long had a ‘night light’ option, dimming the screen for a set
period of time. Now, Firefox users can emulate the effe ct.
Click the toolbar button after instal lation and you’re greeted with options for
creating a schedule and selecting colours. It’s a useful tool for reducing your
computer’s insomnia-inducing bluelight.
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Make your browser warmer
after dark
Get up close and
personal online
What a differen ce In Zoom
(bit.ly/zoom4 76 ) makes. Here’s
a browser a tool that solves yet
another of th e internet’s dodgy
design prob lems – not being
able to zoom in on images and
videos. Without this extension, the best
way to enlarge an online image is to
save it, then magnify it in a photo editor.
In Zoom makes this a lot less hassle : just
hover your cursor over a picture or
video, hold down Shift, then use your
mouse wheel to zoom in and out.
All this happens ‘in-line’, so rather
than forcing the media into a separate
pop-out box, the effe ct occurs na turall y
on the page. It also feat ures impressive
zoom rates, whether you’re tr ying to see
the big picture or the minute detail.
In ou r tests, we found it worked on
mostwebsites – only Facebook refused
to play ball.
Create a temporary
email address
If you’ve ever had a
separate email address
specifically for signing up to
websites, newsletters and the
like, then it’s time to get Temp
Mail (bit.ly/tempmail476). This
Opera add-on provides an
excellent way to keep your inbox
free of junk, by generating a
random email
address that
you click to
instantly copy
it, then paste
it into any
sign-up field
to direct mail
to this
address,
rather than
your actual account. Clicking the
extension lets you visi t this inbox
in your Opera browser, so you’re
still able to ‘confirm’ your email.
You can switch to another
temporary address by clicking
Change.Tr y the new toolsin
Microsoft Edge
Chromium
Microsoft’s new Ed ge Chromium
continues to add new feat ures to
its Insider Dev Channel. First, the
built-in Spellcheck has now been
fixed and rolled out to everyone.
Both th e Dev
Channel and
the more
unstable
Canary
Channel now
allow syncing
with
Microsoft
Edge for
Andr oid, and two new voices
have been addedto the Read
Aloud option (see our feat ure on
page50). These new voices are
billed as “more natural than
ever”, and you’ll find them in the
‘Voice options’ drop-down menu
by right-clicking any web page
and selecting Read Aloud.OTHER BROWSERS
This fortnight’s most useful tips and add-ons to help you get the
most from Chrome, Firefox, Opera and more
Control when new
tabs load
Every ti me you right-click and select
‘Open Link in New Tab’, you’re wasting
a little bit more of your CPU’s
precious proc essing power. By the
time you’ve got twenty new tabs to
sift through, your computer’s going to
be experiencing some lag.
LoadTabOnSelect 3 (bit.ly/load476)
is another finebrowser tool for the
tab-addicted among us. It prevents
any new tab link from actually
loading until you click it, and you’ll be
able to see that it’s working by
looking at the paus e icon that sits
alongside the favicon.
If you pop into the add-on’s
settings, you’re also able to
changethe ‘no loading’ rule
that limits automatic loading
to a set numberof tabs. On
top of th at, there are whitelist
and blacklist options for
specific websites.