Guides
Short answers to common browser annoyances, and how the Ease extensions are built.
- How to auto scroll a page in Chrome, even in Gmail
What Chrome can do for hands-free scrolling, why web apps like Gmail ignore most scrollers, and how Glide handles them.
- Rain, brown noise or white noise: what to play while you study
A plain explanation of white, pink and brown noise and rain sounds, what they feel like, and how to mix them in your browser with Murmur.
- How to turn on dark mode for any website in Chrome
Three ways to get dark mode on every site in Chrome, from the built-in flag to a site's own dark theme, and why simply inverting colors often breaks pages.
- How Lumen finds a site's own dark theme before inverting
A look at how a Chrome extension can switch websites to their own dark themes, including ones that only exist in CSS, and why inversion is only the fallback.
- How Steady evens out movie volume with the Web Audio API
How a Chrome extension captures a tab's audio and keeps its volume in a comfortable range, with the measured results and the design choices behind them.
- How to stop videos autoplaying with sound in Chrome
Why Chrome still lets some videos play with sound on their own, what Chrome's built-in settings can and can't do, and how Hush stops the rest.
- Why movies are too quiet, then too loud, and how to fix it
Why dialog is hard to hear while explosions are painfully loud, and the options for evening out the volume in your browser.