Reviews for ColorfulTabs
ColorfulTabs by Shivanand Sharma
Review by Gloops
Rated 2 out of 5
by Gloops, 6 years agoI 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.
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.
490 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by phunk, 17 days agoCan 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.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ant, 2 months agoExtension not looks like on screenshot - it change background of whole browser and does not change color of inactive tabs
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16378080, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16415766, 6 months agoHorrible now, turns my dark theme bright white.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Linux111, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mariella, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 天灭中共退党团队保平安, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Dark Steve, a year agoTerrible addon. It changed the colour of the main toolbar/URL bar area too, making everything painfully white and impossible to read. I had to restart the broweser after uninstalling ColorfulTabs to restore the theme. It also broke TreeStyle Tabs, making it impossible to change tabs or even close them. Garbage addon.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Gemini62167, a year agoHow can such a lovely idea turn into a fiasco crap show such as this?
As soon as I gave permission for the add-on to work it completely overrode my dark theme utterly and entirely.
Sure, everything than looked as if I had been slipped some acid and then tossed into a bag of skittles...all pretty pretty like. But, then going from all blacks, grays, and whites to an acid trip from hell was worse! I couldn't differentiate one thing from another as everything had been turned into Skittles!
Everywhere I looked, there were Skittles...
There were Skittles there,
And Skittles there...
Here a Skittle!
There a Skittle,
Everywhere a Skittle Skittle!!!!
After putting my eyes back into my head, I had no other choice but to dump the bag just to get my calm, relaxing, and boring Dark Mode back.
So a warning to you all, if you're easily triggered by sudden flashing colors, random flashing lights, or just the random sight of a handful of Skittles coming at you... move on. Save yourself. - Rated 1 out of 5by deilson.elgui, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17662100, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14567288, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by cetteame, a year agoNe prends pas en compte un thème sombre. Efface sans retour possible les réglages de thème sombre qui étaient définis. Ne prévient pas bien de ces modifications.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Virginwidow, 2 years agoI'm going to have to troublshoot this for an extension conflict... FF 88.0b
The tabs ARE coloured nicely, but only appearing in the sidebar. I may keep it as is for I use a jazillion tabs and nothing seems to make them easy to differentiate - Rated 5 out of 5by BlackShark, 2 years agoGreat Extension!! :) It helps very much, to differentiate when developing in multi-level environments, like Local, Dev, Test, and PRO.
- Rated 1 out of 5by malau, 2 years agoLiterally useless ! Doesn't even have an configurable options !!!! Don't waste your time !
- Rated 4 out of 5by AwesmeGamer, 2 years agoWorks
but this disables my dark view in firefox and windows. That is what i am using, and my color theme in the menu bar windows. That is windows 10. It looks like the menu bar should be my firefox theme or my windows theme not just plane white, the tab and the address bar is colored - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14357857, 2 years agoUsed this for years and always been great...until now. WTF happened?? Colours constantly flashing between colours. Needs a fix ASAP!!!!
- Rated 5 out of 5by crx, 2 years agoI really like this extension and I've been using it for years. A lot changed because of how FF changed. I would love to see inactive tabs colored again but hey I still find it useful even without that! Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kapila, 2 years agoHighly appreciate the developers' effort. The concept is good and very useful. But it seems like a lot of preferences options are removed in current version compared to old ones.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Drafer, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17237091, 2 years ago