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Reviews for ColorfulTabs

ColorfulTabs by Shivanand Sharma

2.6 Stars out of 5
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Review by mcsmama
by mcsmama, 8 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 8 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
499 reviews
  • by Firefox user 13489860, 2 months ago
  • by malau, 5 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months ago
    Not working, no trace of any way to select a colour for any tab, I uninstalled it
  • by AnnanFay, 7 months ago
    RIP 💔
  • by Moonrose, 7 months ago
  • by Greenberg, 10 months 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.
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  • by Анастасия Давыдова, a year ago
    обновление было тыщу лет назад(
  • by Firefox user 18298899, a year 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, 2 years ago
    Horrible now, turns my dark theme bright white.
  • by Linux111, 2 years ago
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  • by Firefox user 14715700, 2 years ago
    Forces light theme
  • by Gemini62167, 3 years ago
    How 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.
  • by deo, 3 years ago
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  • by cetteame, 3 years ago
    Ne 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.