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Behind The Overlay users statistics
By NicolaeNVM · Chrome Web Store · Workflow & Planning
One click to close any overlay on any website.
Behind The Overlay has approximately 100,000 recorded users on Chrome Web Store, ranking #99 of 2,952 tracked listings.
Rating: 4.50 / 5 from 365 ratings
About Behind The Overlay
One click to close any overlay on any website.
Close any overlay on any website with a single click or keys. Use keyboard shortcut on Windows ctrl+shift+x or on MacOS cmd+shift+x (think about x as the close button you can use on any website). Once you get used to the keyboard shortcut, you'll be using it all the time and gonna love it ! ; )
Important features:
- It works on any website. It doesn't rely on a static list of rules, as some other extensions.
- It doesn't require any permissions.
- No performance impact on your browsing. It will only activate when triggered.
- (NEW) Also removes blurred backgrounds and unlocks the scroll bar.
Important changes
0.2.2 - 05/01/2024 Update to make it work with the latest versions of Chrome that only supports manifest v3.
0.2.1 - 16/03/2022 Better handling for the scrollbar unblocker thanks to @ricobl on github (issue #23).
0.2.0 - 24/04/2021 Removes blurred backgrounds and improved scroll detection thanks to @sandsmark on github (issue #29).
0.1.3 - 18/06/2014: A keyboard shortcut is now available and activated by default: For windows, linux: CTRL+SHIFT+X For MacOS: CMD+SHIFT+X To remember X key, think of X as a close button.
The scrolling enabler now got better, thanks to jordansexton on github. Improving the algorithm for finding overlays.
Reach out on Github to make suggestions: https://github.com/NicolaeNMV/BehindTheOverlay
Now an Firefox extension is also available !
I'm using this extension myself and happy to share it with everyone ! <3
Description from the Chrome Web Store listing.
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Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
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Ratings over time
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Listing placement
Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.
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Data source
Covers every Chrome Web Store extension with at least 100 users, found through the store's public sitemap. User counts are read from public listing pages. The 10% most-used extensions are refreshed daily, the next 40% weekly and the next 40% monthly; the least-used 10% are not refreshed. Google displays rounded user counts (and caps the display at 10,000,000+), so small changes may not be visible. Rating counts above 1,000 are rounded (e.g. 1.6K).
Listing: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/behind-the-overlay/ljipkdpcjbmhkdjjmbbaggebcednbbme. First seen Oct 20, 2026; last successful collection Oct 21, 2026. See the methodology.