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.
Stats
By: hakim.elhattab
Users: 1,000+
Rating: 4.37
(27)
Creation date: 2012-09-30
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
Size: 10.50K
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Summary
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
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.
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
简直太适合我这种不选中不能阅读星人了!
Safety
Risk impact
Fokus is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Fokus has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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