ColorfulTabs 3.2 Released

We have released ColorfulTabs v3.2 today. This is more of a feature update than a bug fix. ColorfulTabs now supports fixed colors for upto 5 domains. This means you can have fixed colors of your choice for upto 5 domains.

In the future I’m planning to add regular expression capabilities to the feature so that you can have complex expressions to set a color for any domain. If there are any feature requests or bug reports please leave a comment on this post. (I often loose allt he feature requests and bug reports in my email I’ll be glad to improve things.

Do let me know how this build works. All the best and Enjoy. Do not forget to subscribe to the RSS here (yes the squarish orange icon on the top left).

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{ 29 comments }

1 Dave M July 9, 2008 at 2:15 am: Version 3.2 still doesn’t work with FF3 (default theme) and XP SP3. Version 2 works, though.
2 Mory July 9, 2008 at 3:23 am: Great job !
i hope you add some option to set same site tabs have a same color
thanks in advance
3 Johno758 July 9, 2008 at 3:54 am: [quote]Version 3.2 still doesn’t work with FF3 (default theme) and XP SP3. Version 2 works, though.[/quote]

Works fine for me with that configuration
4 sqd July 9, 2008 at 5:02 am: I would like to be able to set a default color for the active tab so that I could at a glance know which tab is active.
5 Daniel Long July 9, 2008 at 5:02 am: The link for “Read The Complete Article” on the page http://binaryturf.com/software/colorfultabs-for-firefox/colorfultabs-documentation-and-help/ is dead as a doornail.

I’d like to be able to read the documentation, please.
6 CalienS July 9, 2008 at 9:09 am: I had been using this add-on for quite a time now, more than a year I think, and I must say is great.

Thanks for this and keep the good work!.

By the way, Im using ColorfulTabs version 3.2 with FF3 (default theme with small icons) on Win XP SP2 without any problem.
7 Hobbes July 9, 2008 at 12:30 pm: I agree with sqd.
A colour for the currently active tab would be very useful.

And like the others, I don’t have a problem with 3.2, ff3, xpsp2.
8 Bill Blinn July 9, 2008 at 3:37 pm: When will this work for FFx3 under XP with SP3?
9 Rain July 9, 2008 at 8:21 pm: hi can i downloaded this? i hav a firefox version 3?
10 BB July 9, 2008 at 10:24 pm: 3.2 stopped working for me with the latest download from Microsoft (the one that kills ZA). I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no luck. I’m running FF3 and XP sp3.
11 Marcel July 10, 2008 at 6:15 am: it is a nice extension, very practical if you do not use a theme like Pitch Black were the text is in white.

When the text of the theme is in white it becomes IMPOSSIBLE to read the Colorful Tab Menu and it become NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE to read the Tab title!

So I have to uninstall Colorfull tab or give up on my 3 preferred them that are all “black”.

Any solutions you think?
12 Seth July 10, 2008 at 7:01 am: Great job! I like the new version even more! Stuff like this puts IE to shame. I don’t see as much of a need for the active tab to stand out more. The active tab on mine is quite obvious. The print is a bolder black and the ‘x’ to close the tab is much more pronounced. Works for me.
13 sqd July 10, 2008 at 7:57 am: Seth, I am very glad it works for you can it stands out as you say.

But the active tab for me does not stand out at all.

BTW…I am using Vista. A friend of mine is using XP and he says he can tell the active tab too. I cannot.
14 Hank July 10, 2008 at 11:54 pm: Thank you for a wonderful idea.

The active tab also does not stand out enough for me on my large monitor with many tabs open.

I would appreciate having an option to make the active tab white, glow, or pulse from dark to glowing, so it stands out more than the current dark gray does.

Thanks again!
15 Hu July 11, 2008 at 12:24 am: i want to download, but i can not find!
16 sqd July 11, 2008 at 12:30 am: Hu…have a look here.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1368
17 Shivanand Sharma July 11, 2008 at 12:34 am: or you could search for “colorfultabs” in the search box here
18 Protonus July 11, 2008 at 9:55 pm: I’m in agreeance about the dark black theme issue – the fonts are hard to read, selectable font color or something would be great.

Also, it would be great to change the active tab color or something as noted too.

Thanks!
19 Time Traveler July 11, 2008 at 10:28 pm: REQUEST: How about an option to make all the tabs a single color? or an option for a horizontal (L to R) gradient? Let me know when you code it so I can download the version…it’s only going to make your app a bigger splash in the WWW universe.
20 Dantz July 12, 2008 at 12:50 am: @BB or @Bill Blinn
I’m running FF3 and XP SP3, this addons works great.

Thankz.
21 Ken Saunders July 13, 2008 at 5:04 am: I am very grateful that you have consistently maintained ColorfulTabs.
The greater majority may not realize it, but ColorfulTabs is a very important tool for persons with certain visual impairments that may have trouble distinguishing the differences between multiple tabs.
Thanks for your time and effort that you have put into ColorfulTabs.
22 Chris July 13, 2008 at 8:50 am: Hello,
congratulations on the release, it’s a great modification.
However, I just installed it.
The reason:
I’m running FF on a Mac on your extension adds a massive amount of spam to my system.log, here’s a example:
http://pastebin.com/m5907f0f

It would be cool if you could introduce something like a verbose logging flag in the options, which could be disabled by default.

Thanks for reading

Regards,
Chris
23 Chris July 13, 2008 at 8:51 am: Sorry, I of course meant “However, I just uninstalled it.”
24 Ashe July 13, 2008 at 9:42 am: Is there a listing anywhere of which FF3 themes are currently compatible with the latest ColourfulTabs? It’s working fine for me in the default theme, but I’d really love to go back to using it with a black theme. I’ve tried it with AeroFox so far, which just shows black tabs. Any tips would be much appreciated.
25 Mikko Ohtamaa July 14, 2008 at 4:45 am: One new idea: mark unread tabs differently (e.g. with grey font). If you open multiple tabs from a page you can easily identify which links you already have read.
26 Damon July 14, 2008 at 6:22 pm: I also agree with sqd when (s)he says she wants to “a glance know which tab is active.”

It doesn’t have to be a special tab color though; a more distict “x” image on the close button would help. Also, many favicons are similar to your current red “x” (yahoo, Tryit Editor, and Mark Logic are all red and squareish in my current window, and Blogger is orange and square) so visually the red “x” does not show the active tab that well.

Love the plugin, please keep coding.
27 Joann July 15, 2008 at 1:38 am: How do I uninstall colourful tabs
28 Ed Gelb July 15, 2008 at 5:52 am: To sqd and the others who want a way to make the active tab distinctive, here is what I have done.

It involves using Tab Mix Plus along with Colorful Tabs.

In the Tab Mix Plus preferences:
1. choose Display
2. choose Tab
3. put a check next to Highlight Current Tab
4. click on Customize Style
5. choose Current Tab
6. put a check next to Text Color
7. click on the Color Square
8. choose white

In the Colorful Tabs preferences:
1. choose General
2. set Fading Level to 8
29 sqd July 15, 2008 at 6:08 am: Hi Ed and all,

That works alright but is very subtle. I would still prefer a way to set the active tab with a color of my choosing.