Fokus

Emphasized text-highlighting

What is Fokus?

'Fokus' is a Chrome extension that enhances your reading focus by emphasizing your selected text. It achieves this by covering the rest of the webpage with a semi-transparent black layer. Easily adjustable and provides an immersive reading experience by just holding down a shift, ctrl, alt, or cmd key.

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By: hakim.elhattab

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.37 (27)

Version: 1.7 (Last updated: 2012-09-30)

Creation date: 2012-09-30

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

storage

Size: 10.50K

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 23380 ▼ 2

Other rankings

#12264 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 107 #126 in overlay keyword 43

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Summary

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Fokus emphasizes anything you select by covering the rest of the page with a semi-transparent black overlay.

You can try it out here http://lab.hakim.se/fokus/ before installing.

The plugin comes with a few options that can be accessed from Chrome's extension listing page. This allows you to:

Adjust overlay opacity
Specify a modifier key shift/ctrl/alt/cmd which must be held down to active the overlay
Adjust the padding around selection

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Easy to switch on and off
Helpful for people with vision problems
Useful for highlighting text while reading, particularly for educators and coders
Improvement were made based on user feedback, such as the addition of a modifier key
Overall execution and design

Cons

May not be user intuitive, some users faced difficulty figuring out how it works
Can interfere with text selection within input fields
Triggering of the extension is easily activated by user events other than actual intended use, causing inconvenience when surfing the web
Lack of customizability like changing background color of selected text or disabling plugin on certain websites

Most mentioned

Usefulness in making text more readable or attention focused
Issues with unintentional triggering of the extension
Desire for more customization options such as changing colors and enabling or disabling on certain sites
Request for modifier key

Recent reviews

Works as expected and is really useful. Just wanted a quick way to switch on and off.

Jens Fridsen, 2023-03-20

I can't figure out how it works! It seems like a great extension based on the demo site but in't user intuitive. Could someone help me explain how to use the extension? Thanks1