ColorfulTabs 4.2

Please submit requests and technical issues in the forums. ColorfulTabs has been updated to version 4.2. We’ve implemented recoloring of tabs. This comes real handy when using the random coloring scheme because there are times when you don’t like the default color that is generated by ColorfulTabs. Power to you — right-click on the tab > ColorfulTabs > Re-Color. But we weren’t satisfied with that. Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could hold down a particular shortcut key and have the tab cycle through randomly generated colors instead of reaching the tab’s context menu again and again? The shortcut Alt+Shift+R comes in handy for that.

Additionally we’ve reimplemented the algorithm that generates random colors. Earlier, to get a unique color we use the unique “linkedpanel” attribute of the tab to generate a color from it. It so happens that the linkedpanel attribute of the tabs is only different by a trivial number and what we really needed was a wildly random value. Thus instead of relying on that attribute we chose to generate a real random value to give us colors that are wide-apart. Now there’s a catch.

When it comes to colors there are millions. But your eyes can only differentiate as many. Additionally not all of them are pretty you’ll agree. The power of ColorfulTabs is in beauty and simplicity. Something pleasant yet effective that makes working with Firefox, Seamonkey, Flock fun and easy — that’s what ColorfulTabs has been designed for. So, these colors are still limited by the default values in the Advanced Options of ColorfulTabs (which exist to make sure that the generated colors are pleasant and beautiful). However to get a wider gamut of colors you can change the value of luminance and saturation if the Advanced Options of ColorfulTabs. The bigger the difference between the minimum and maximum values the wider the gamut. However do understand that all those colors may not be as pretty as the default ones generated. But suit your taste.