Reviews for ColorfulTabs
ColorfulTabs by Shivanand Sharma
46 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Dorismiata, 6 jaar gelede
- Rated 2 out of 5by Gloops, 6 jaar geledeI should have made proposals on the site if I had found how to create an account.
This extension is a good idea (and replaces things that no more run), but needs to be improved.
By the way it appears that critics for two different extensions appear on the same page here.
I tested the one with Web Extension, as I use Firefox Quantum, version 59.0.2 - I presume this extension is somewhat recent.
About the results, I see the active tab displayed with a different colour, and this is why I installed the extension.
That being said, this background colour is at random, and the foreground colour (font colour) is fixed (in the options) so this not always optimum.
I regret not being able to choose colours for other tabs, classically a set of colours for not loaded tabs, another for inactive tabs ...
Tab Mix Plus has accustomed us to use a nice user interface to choose the colours, well let us forget that for the moment being, it takes some time to develop.
What would really be useful is that the extension sets a style name for the active tab, one for the tabs that are no more loaded, one for the other ones. And also that the documentation gives those style names.
With that, we could personalize properly those styles in userChrome.css (at least the advanced users could do that).
In a second time, as an options interface is proposed, it would be nice that for each of these styles it allows to give a foreground colour, and a background colour. Some of them miss. If time allows, some other attributes as bold could be smart too.
When this urgent stuff is done, I should like to mention that after installing the extension I had to style my personal bar (placestoolbar), as the extension modifies its background colour, and the font colour it had was no more adapted.
If you have time to do some tests at this level, it will help, too.
Thanks for the good job. - Rated 2 out of 5by Ahmed Han, 6 jaar geledeDoesn't work as shown in the extension page screen shot. Only the selected tab is colored randomly. The bookmarks and address bar rows are also colored with the same random color.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12458171, 6 jaar gelede
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13577538, 6 jaar geledeThis has always been my VERY FIRST tab to install after doing an install of Firefox. I am so sad that this is now not working properly and as a result, I have uninstalled it.. It has always worked VERY well in the past. Now it causes my theme to not be shown. It takes over the colors for the title bar etc... PLEASE fix this...It has been one of the VERY best extensions up to this point.
- Rated 2 out of 5by B J, 6 jaar gelede
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12149231, 6 jaar geledeI liked the previous version. In the new version, which was installed automatically when Firefox updated itself to Quantum, I cannot choose my own tab colors.This means I cannot use the scheme I had been using for choosing tab colors. Not great. I hope this feature will be restored.
In addition, much more than just the tab gets colored. That would be a good thing if all the tab colors were light, but many of them are so dark that I cannot read the names in the toolbar. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13495299, 6 jaar geledethanks for updating to FF57 but not tabs color but search bar only....
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13515292, 6 jaar geledeWas a great add-on with actually colored tabs, but after update 57.0 - not so great. Only selected tab is colored, and also the different bars. Not very nice.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12734207, 6 jaar geledeMi dispiace ma con l'ultimo aggiornamento di Firefox Quantum disabilità i temi
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13508592, 6 jaar geledeI liked the old one ... terrific; the new one also colors the navigation bar, and the bookmark bar, to math the selected tab ... your choice of colors is just fine, but how about just coloring the tabs in 57
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13504704, 6 jaar geledeI used to like this extension however the colors its producing on the menu bar are ugly and make you want to throw up!! Hope it go's back to a different format. I'm switching back to the old style in firefox
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13502426, 6 jaar geledeAllowed update to FF57 because I saw a new version of Colourful Tab was available. I'm very disappointed. Only the current tab is coloured. Clicking on the toolbar star reveals the anticipated colours but they're not loading into the actual tabs...
Please fix this, I'm really regretting update my Firefox! - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12073697, 6 jaar geledeThe new version has become useless. Instead of coloring inactive tabs with faded versions of their active colour, it fades all inactive tabs to some kind of unreadable black & grey, unrelated to their active colour. This has removed the reason why I wanted it, which was to quickly locate the tab I wished to switch to.
- Rated 2 out of 5by ellisaana, 6 jaar geledeI do miss my colorful tabs, but the newest version does not work for me. It blacks out the theme, task bar and all tabs except the one in use, making it too difficult to navigate. With reluctance, I have decided to disable the extension.
Developer response
posted 6 jaar geledeFor support please visit: https://www.addongenie.com/forums/topic/colorfultabs-disabled-in-firefox-quantum - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13486265, 6 jaar geledeI downloaded the new version of Colorful Tabs and all my tabs turned transparent. I have net yet been able to return them to their former colorful state.
Developer response
posted 6 jaar geledeColorfulTabs 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 - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13484164, 6 jaar geledeI get that people were disappointed that ColorfulTabs (previously one of the best addons for Firefox) wasn't compatible with Quantum, and the dev wanted to retain his loyal fanbase - but pushing an unfinished update (with no options) to thousands of computers is not the way to do that. I, like everyone else, am uninstalling this addon.
Developer response
posted 6 jaar geledeDon't forget it's an unfinished browser too. 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 - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13484134, 6 jaar geledei will no longer use this extension since the most recent update. now it is no longer just the tab that is colored; the entire menu bar and bookmarks menu bar are awash in blinding colors, which is compounded when you switch between tabs or visit a new page, and the entire top of my browser is changing between neon colors. shame because ive been using this extension for years now. when it is fixed, i will reenable the extension.
not your fault (i dont think) but also not happy at all that i have to create an acct to rate an extension. an acct for what? it doesnt say. a mozilla add-ons acct?Developer response
posted 6 jaar geledeColorfulTabs 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. I'm working overtime to maintain this addon. So I don't mind you having to take a minute to create an account and give me a negative review. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12410879, 6 jaar geledeCan not choose colors. Also, all of my other open tabs are blacked out & cannot be read until you "click" on them.
Developer response
posted 6 jaar geledeColorfulTabs 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 - Rated 2 out of 5by John, 6 jaar geledeThis was always a MUST until ff57 broke it ... but now it's back for ff57 too
however, right now there are no control options and rather than just the tab colour changing the complete banner area across the top of the page changes colour and becomes very irritating. I've disabled the add-on for now until v32.1 comes alongDeveloper response
posted 6 jaar geledeColorfulTabs 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