Fokus

Emphasized text-highlighting

Fokus - Emphasized Text-Highlighting Chrome Extension

'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

Users: 892

-6

Rating: 4.37

(27)

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

Creation date: 2012-09-30

Permissions:

storage

Size: 10.50K

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 31,138 ▼ 113

Other rankings

#12596 in Workflow & Planning

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Works as expected and is really useful.
Helps with reading for users with conditions like cataracts.
Great for highlighting and focusing on selected text.
Allows customization like opacity and modifier key options.
User-friendly interface for enhancing document display.

Cons

Not very intuitive for new users; requires some explanation.
Can interfere with text selection and editing in input fields.
Lacks an option to disable the extension on certain sites.
Some users find it annoying when it triggers unexpectedly.

Most mentioned

Works as expected and is really useful.
Helps with reading for users with conditions like cataracts.
It's not clear how to change certain settings.
A modifier key option would improve usability.

User 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

Chelsea Kingzett, 2022-07-20

简直太适合我这种不选中不能阅读星人了！

weiqi sun, 2021-01-27

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Fokus requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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