Reviews for ColorfulTabs
ColorfulTabs by Shivanand Sharma
Review by Gloops
Rated 2 out of 5
by Gloops, 8 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.
501 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by CJIS, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19582014, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13489860, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by malau, 9 months agoIt 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. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18488585, 10 months agoI 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
- Rated 1 out of 5by Moamar, 10 months agoNot working, no trace of any way to select a colour for any tab, I uninstalled it
- Rated 5 out of 5by Moonrose, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Greenberg, a year agoIt 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.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12942720, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Gabs, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ammie, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by SCCENTRAL, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by phunk, 2 years 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 years 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, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16415766, 2 years agoHorrible now, turns my dark theme bright white.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Linux111, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mariella, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Gemini62167, 3 years 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 deo, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17662100, 3 years ago