FullTouch - Fullscreen Touch Controls

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Press F11 on a touchscreen 2-in-1 and Chrome goes fullscreen - hiding the tab strip and address bar with NO touch way to bring them back or to leave fullscreen. The top-edge reveal only works with a mouse. If you're holding the device as a tablet, you're stuck.

FullTouch fixes that.

━━ WHAT IT DOES ━━

• Swipe down from the top edge (in fullscreen) to reveal a slim nav bar:
   ‹ ›  back / forward
   ⟳   reload
   +   new tab
   address box - type a URL or search
   ⌃   hide the bar (stay in fullscreen)
   ✕   exit fullscreen

• Below the bar, a tab strip shows all your open tabs - tap any one to jump straight to it (turn it off in Settings if you prefer).

• Swipe TWO fingers sideways to switch tabs - right for the previous tab, left for the next, wrapping around. Works in or out of fullscreen. (Single-finger swipe-to-go-back is left untouched.)

• Prefer a visible target to a blind swipe? Turn on the optional "pull tab" - a small handle at the top edge you can tap or drag down.

• Keyboard fallbacks for pages where extensions can't run (chrome://, the Web Store, the new-tab page): Alt+N toggles the bar, Alt+Shift+F exits fullscreen. Rebind them at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.

━━ PRIVACY: NO DATA COLLECTED. EVER. ━━

FullTouch has no servers, no analytics, and contains no networking code of any kind. It never stores or transmits the pages you visit - nothing leaves your device. Your settings are saved only in your own Chrome.

Chrome's install screen will warn that FullTouch can "read and change all your data on all sites." That warning is mandatory for ANY extension allowed to run on every website - and the gestures have to work everywhere you browse, so it has to ask. "Allowed to run on every site" is not "collects your data": FullTouch only watches for touch gestures and draws its own nav bar. It's open-source - you can verify every line.

━━ HOW IT WORKS ━━

Browser (F11) fullscreen is owned by the browser, not the web page, so a page can't leave it on its own. FullTouch uses a tiny background service worker - the only part of Chrome with the right access - to drop the window out of fullscreen and to switch/open tabs, while a content script handles the gestures and draws the bar. Minimal permissions by design: just "storage" (your settings) and host access so the gestures work on every site.

Built for Chrome on Windows 2-in-1s and tablets. Free and open-source.