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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Extension stats

By: hakim.elhattab

Users: 968

Rating: 4.37

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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

Ranking

# 29,838 ▲ 457

Other rankings

#13370 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 50 #116 in overlay keyword 37 ▲ 7

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Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension 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

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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