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ColorfulTabs by Shivanand Sharma

2.6 Stars out of 5
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Review by mcsmama
by mcsmama, 9 years ago
Have loved ColorfulTabs for a couple years now & thank you for all your hard work; it has always been a 5-star add-on in my book. The newest update in response to the FireFox57 update has rendered ColorfulTabs unusable for me; because of that, I had to disable it & I gave the update one star (because how else would you know what's happening?!). However, I know it will just be an interim issue since Mr. Sharma has always been extremely responsive to his users' needs & I will certainly change my rating once the bugs are worked out. To other reviewers: please be patient & not so quick to make absolute statements indicating "it used to be good, now it sucks, I quit you"... give the poor guy a chance to work out the bugs... he always does! The problems I am encountering are the same as many others here: can't read the inactive tabs with all of those being colored black. In addition, I have always used the option to make my tabs as small as possible & I miss having that option available. I'll be checking back periodically & plan to reactivate ColorfulTabs after the bugs are worked out. TY!

Developer response

posted 9 years ago
ColorfulTabs wouldn’t work at all until this Firefox bug is fixed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1320585

I’m lucky we got it to work at all. Currently we can only color the current tab. Thanks to Patrick for coming up with an innovative idea. Please also see: https://www.addongenie.com/forums/topic/colorfultabs-disabled-in-firefox-quantum
502 reviews
  • by ywliu, 15 days ago
  • by MarkusProkott, a month ago
    Best add-on ever. It's so essential.

    Read Bug 1320585 on Bugzilla. OMG, why don't they implement tab colouring??? They even locked comments on that bug after they saw that so many people would love to have tab colours. Why do they hate users so much?

    It's nice to have at least that current workaround with ColorfulTabs. I needed the original XUL addon so much, that I actually extended it to have C&P functionality.

    IMO, tab colour should not be left to addon developers, but should be a HTML meta property like: . It belongs to the same place as favicons. It's weird that you can set a favicon in HTML, but not a background to it. The first one is totally normal – the second a sacrilege? This way it would be as easy as CSS to overide the tab colour with a user or extension set colour.
  • by CJIS, 6 months ago
  • by Firefox user 19582014, 7 months ago
  • by Firefox user 13489860, 10 months ago
  • by malau, a year ago
    It was useless 3 years ago, and it's useless today !

    All the tabs remain the same colour UNLESS you click on one of them !!!!!!!

    The Extension SHOULD colour all tabs at the top of the screen a different colour, because by default they are all white. But it doesn't.
  • by Firefox user 18488585, a year ago
    I have not been able to get more than 1 tab colored and that one is the open tab. I would love to have my tab colors back
  • by Moamar, a year ago
    Not working, no trace of any way to select a colour for any tab, I uninstalled it
  • by AnnanFay, a year ago
    RIP 💔
  • by Moonrose, a year ago
  • by Greenberg, a year ago
    It used to work now I cant get it to work. It used to work was a great addon when you have many open windows in multi-row especially although for that you have to use Floorp Firefox based browser.
  • by Firefox user 12942720, a year ago
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  • by SCCENTRAL, 2 years ago
  • by Анастасия Давыдова, 2 years ago
    обновление было тыщу лет назад(
  • by Firefox user 18298899, 2 years ago
    Absolutely FANTASTIC
  • by phunk, 2 years ago
    Can developer PLEASE EXPLAIN why this add-on required "Access your data for all websites" permission? That sounds like an EXTREME SECURITY RISK, for an unknown use or benefit.
  • by Ant, 2 years ago
    Extension not looks like on screenshot - it change background of whole browser and does not change color of inactive tabs
  • by Firefox user 16378080, 2 years ago
  • by Firefox user 16415766, 3 years ago
    Horrible now, turns my dark theme bright white.
  • by Linux111, 3 years ago
  • by Mariella, 3 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14715700, 3 years ago
    Forces light theme
  • by deo, 3 years ago