hbt/chrome-restore-focus

Restore focus to document from chrome browser

Chrome restore focus

Restore focus from anywhere in browser (search address bar, devtool inspector/console etc.) back to the document

How to use it?

git clone git@github.com:hbt/chrome-restore-focus.git

• go to chrome://extensions/
• turn on "developer mode"
• click "load unpacked extension"
• select extension
• at the bottom chrome://extensions/ add keyboard shortcuts e.g Ctrl+E

How it works?

That's it. After mapping the keyboard shortcut, pressing Ctrl+E will restore the focus. It works by capturing the focus through a browser action. It does everything very quickly and is not visible (<50ms)

Known issue

• You may have to tweak the 50ms value in the timeout in chrome-restore-focus/popup.js If the computer is slow, it would take longer than 50ms. Possibly there is a way to enhance this

• There is a lot of jquery, underscore dependencies crap and most of the code is copied my other project. It could use a clean up.

Why build it?

• view issue in https://superuser.com/questions/324266/google-chrome-mac-set-keyboard-focus-from-address-bar-back-to-page
• philc/vimium#840

Why is this better?

• it works anywhere in the browser as opposed to the search engine hack
• it is one keyboard shortcut