Colorful Tabs Quick-Start Guide

What's new?

ColorfulTabs now works with SeaMonkey 2.0, Firefox 3.6 and Flock too. See complete colorfultabs changelog.

Why was ColorfulTabs created?

Tabs are the primary power of Mozillian browsers. A single user session consists of tens of tabs. What if each tab could be colored to add a unique identification? That would differentiate them from each other. It may even indicate which site a particular tab has open. This small idea evolved into ColorfulTabs. It is now everyone's favourite and an essention requirement. We spend a lot of time and effort developing this addon, keeping it updated, adding features, providing free technical support, running a forum and a website and doing everyday things that can't be mentioned. I love doing this and feel satisfaction in the fact that something created by us is so much appreciated.

What's next for ColorfulTabs

IE8 style tab grouping.

Features and Options

• Beautiful colours — We promise you'll fall in love with these colors.
• Unique Hues — Unique hues help you easily differentiate between various tabs and intuitively remember each tab. It's surprising to realize how it just works.
• Colouring by site domain — Colour each tab depending on its server/domain for identifying the website. You can tell which site is in which tab by just looking at the colors.
• Custom tab colour — And just incase you prefer to tag the tabs with a custom color feel free to give your tabs a colour of your choice right from the context menu of the tab.
• Generate colors on demand — This mode allows you to color only the tabs you want colored. The rest start the default shade.
• Enhanced tab highlighting — While we are theming the tabs how about some transparency effects? Fade the background tabs to as much as you want to highlight the currently selected tab. Let's go a step further — place a beautiful background-pattern on the tab-strip for an enhanced effect.
• Easy Options — Quickly reach the ColorfulTab-preferences from the tab-context-menu. Additionally you can chose to remove the option from the tabs' context menu.
• Scheme 1 — Colors each tab using pre-selected colors in a definite order starting from the left.
• Scheme 2 — Colors each tab using a unique and randomly generated color.
• Scheme 3 — Colors each tab using a unique color depending on the site domain using a formula.
• Scheme 4 — Tabs have the default style and you can color them on-demand.
• Custom Shades — Allows user to choose colors.
• Custom Domain settings — Color your favourite site with your favourite color. Allows user to choose colors for unlimited domains.
• Advanced Options — The tech-savvy kinds can play around with luminance and saturation too.
• For the specially abled — Increases usability and visibility for people with visual challenges.
• Technical Support — Don't forget - we are always around just in case you need any assistance let it be ColorfulTabs, Firefox or anything else. Head on to the Binary Turf Forums for support issues.