Can't I just disable it?

You can, in three clicks, and we say so on the box. But that's an argument for friction, not against it. A hard block gives you an opponent: it says no, you say watch me, and the effort that could have gone into the question goes into beating the software instead — which you win, once, and then it's off for good. That's how people uninstall a blocker in week two. Friction never refuses you, so there's nothing to beat. Holding the button is always easier than removing the extension, so almost nobody removes it, and the holding is the part that works.

Your rules, in your browser. No history, no visited URLs, no analytics. There is no account, so nothing identifying you reaches us.

Does it work on other browsers?

Chrome and Edge today. Firefox is next; blocking is per-browser by design, so nothing follows you to another one.

Twenty seconds sounds like nothing.

The ring on this page runs for five seconds — a quarter of the real thing — and even that is longer than it reads. Twenty seconds is long enough for the question do I actually want this to arrive, which is the entire mechanism.

Changelog — Few Seconds Focus

1.1.0

2026-09-07

unreleased

new A new look throughout — the block page, the popup, the options page and the countdown banner. Warm neutrals, one accent, hairlines instead of shadows.

new Groups are one list you can read at a glance, with the hold and the window on every row.

new The hold works from the keyboard. Space or Enter holds it, and letting the key go — or tabbing away — releases it.

new The changelog and the help text moved to this site, so a wording fix no longer needs a store review.

fix Letting go of the hold now costs progress instead of resetting it. A slipped finger is forgiving; fidgeting still isn't.

fix An expired access window no longer let a page through.

fix A hold left running in a background tab no longer completes itself when you come back to it.

What changed, newest first.

1.1.0