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Fog ModeTry the tools ↗Install Fog Mode. Try one tool.
Install from the Chrome Web Store
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Try the page examples now. Come back here for the verified Chrome Web Store listing when Fog Mode launches.
Try the page tools →- On a computer, open the official Fog Mode Store listing in Chrome. Check that it’s Fog Mode by What Is Brain Fog.
- Choose Add to Chrome, read what Chrome asks, and confirm if you want to install.
- Open Chrome’s Extensions menu and pin Fog Mode to the toolbar.
- Open a regular webpage, then click the Fog Mode icon.
You need desktop Chrome 120 or later. In this release, Fog Mode doesn’t run in Incognito. If a school or work administrator controls extensions, ask them to review the Store listing. Google’s installation instructions.
Try one tool first
Follow the lines
Turn on Reading guide. Adjust its height and dimming, then lock it if you want it to stay still.
Guide instructions →Save your place
Open Remember and save the page and reading position. Use Return to page when you come back.
Saved-place instructions →The four main tools are Declutter, Pause, Sound, and Remember. Open Settings for website access, focus timers, reminders, and backups. See every tool and setting.
Choose your website access
You can click the toolbar icon on each website for temporary page access. Settings → Enable page tools asks for optional website access so your reading choices and attached notes can follow you from page to page. You can decline it.
Desktop notifications are optional and off by default. Nothing plays until you start sound, and a reminder doesn’t automatically start a screen break.
What stays on your device: notes you write, selected text and page details you choose to save, preferences, and a history of your recent sessions. Fog Mode uses these for its page tools and saved places. The extension doesn’t send them to a server or use them for ads. Fog Mode doesn’t encrypt stored records or exported backups. Read the complete data notice.
Close the controls or stop the tools
Click the toolbar icon again to close the controls. Active tools keep running. Choose Stop all to stop them.
If a page looks wrong, choose Reset in Declutter. Use Leave this website alone to make Fog Mode skip that site. Manage the websites you’ve left alone.
Back up before removing Fog Mode
Open Settings → Export my data before uninstalling if you want to keep your notes. Removing the extension removes its saved data. Reinstalling can’t recover it without a backup.
To remove it, open Chrome’s Extensions menu, find Fog Mode, and choose Remove from Chrome. Google’s removal instructions.
Testing an unpacked build?
Use only a build you received from a trusted source. Developer mode is for testing. Everyone else should use the official Store listing.
- Use the project’s built
distfolder, withmanifest.jsonat its root. - Type
chrome://extensionsin Chrome’s address bar. Turn on Developer mode. - Choose Load unpacked and select that folder. Pin Fog Mode.
- When the build changes, choose Reload on Fog Mode’s extension card, then reload the test webpage.
Unpacked test builds don’t get Store updates automatically. You can’t download a build here.