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Delay

by Richard · Workflow & Planning
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 16 Oct 2026

Delay is used to break habitual browsing, by having the moment to reflect you'll decide if you want to navigate to the website.

Users
1,000
0 in 30 days
Rating
4.2 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
20
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#25K
#21K among extensions
Version
0.3.4
updated 5 Aug 2025

Users

monthly, 3 years
2006001,000Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 1,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

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41220Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 20 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About Delay

Identify and remove the habits that have you unintentionally opening websites. Create a list of URL's and they will have a delay before the websites displayed. The delay enables you to recognize you've opened a certain URL and gives you time to to acknowledge a typically unconscious decision. Each time you both navigate to a blacklisted URL and wait for the delay to resolve it will save an event. These can be viewed in a chart which will compare how many times you navigated vs how many times you let the delay load. This way you can visualise how many times you halted that habit and delay rescued some time! Updates 3.3 - Can now add a custom message thats displayed on the delay screen 3.2 - Issues with previous update and new pre render. 3.1 - Manifest update 3.0 - Delay Page will show the Desired URL appended at the back of its own URL - You can enable Incrementing Delay Time. Each time you navigate to a Blacklisted page the Delay time will increase by 1 second. This resets every day. Bug Fixes: - Cursor behavior over buttons - Some navigation events were not triggering the delay - Depending on your timezone some events could be logged a day early or late - Graph has been reduced to a max of 6 months. 2.4 Bulk Block, add a list of comma seperated URLS 2.3 Right clicking and selecting 'Open in new Tab' will now delay the tab. You will have to select it for the delay to initiate. Theres no max delay time you can set it as high as you'd like. Y-Axis will be a whole number, no more decimals. 2.2 When you navigate to a page but don't let it load for the first time within a day, loaded is given a initial value of 0 so it shows on the graph 2.1 - Tab has to be in focus for the countdown to continue, stops you opening multiple tabs 2.0 - The recent release removes all existing navigation events. But what it allows going foward is a much smaller data set this means we have been able to enable: - synchronization across browsers once you login using your gmail - ability to work in incognito as well Feedback If you have any feedback, comment on the following thread: https://github.com/richardroy/delay/issues/48

Growth

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Version history

11 versions recorded
0.3.45 Aug 2025
0.3.230 Jul 2025
0.3.128 Jul 2025
0.3.029 Jan 2022
0.2.415 Oct 2021
0.2.327 May 2021
0.2.0215 May 2021
0.2.0127 Nov 2020

Details

Category
Workflow & Planning
First seen
25 Aug 2019
Size
146 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Extension ID
fbhbfbladmbgakfkccbfjpbabagjcmid

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 2
Permissions
webNavigationstoragetabs

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