Video Ambient Light
Free Chrome and Firefox extension that spreads ambient light from YouTube, Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels and Facebook Reels across your whole page.
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What is Video Ambient Light?
Video Ambient Light is a free browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that draws the colors of the playing video into a soft, full-page background. It works on YouTube, including watch pages, livestreams and Shorts, and also supports TikTok, Instagram Reels and Facebook Reels. The original video stays sharp, and its layout and playback controls are left unchanged.
It is aimed at people who watch videos for long stretches, such as music videos, gaming streams and everyday viewing, as well as those who scroll through short portrait videos and want the empty space around them filled with color. No account is required, and the extension does not upload video. Video frames are displayed locally and settings are stored in browser storage.
What sets it apart is how the light is controlled. Users can adjust glow intensity, page ambience, softness, spread, saturation and frame rate, change UI transparency, and switch the effect on or off for each supported platform. Lowering the frame rate or brightness reduces drawing work, and background tabs stop drawing.
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