Chrome Spotlight

Chrome Spotlight

Chrome Spotlight is a lightweight focus overlay extension for Chrome.

It helps you visually isolate a specific part of a web page by darkening or blurring the surrounding content while keeping a movable visible area clear.

The spotlight area can be moved, resized, and switched between a circle/ellipse and a rectangle.

Main features

* Dark overlay mode
* Blur overlay mode
* Movable spotlight area
* Resizable spotlight area
* Circle/ellipse and rectangle modes
* Smooth intro and outro animations
* Keyboard shortcuts
* Help panel
* Page scrolling while the spotlight stays fixed
* Shortcut priority handling on websites such as YouTube and Google Maps
* Browser zoom compensation for the help panel

Keyboard shortcuts

* F: toggle dark / blur mode
* C: toggle circle / rectangle
* +: increase effect intensity
* -: decrease effect intensity
* 0: reset effect intensity
* R: reset spotlight area
* H: show / hide help panel
* X: close Chrome Spotlight

Intended use

Chrome Spotlight is designed for reading, focusing, presentations, demonstrations, and visually highlighting part of a web page.

It is a visual focus tool. It is not a security or privacy protection tool.

Limitations

Chrome Spotlight may not work on restricted browser pages such as chrome:// pages, the Chrome Web Store, internal Chrome pages, or pages where Chrome blocks extension script injection.