Colored tabs based on domain (2nd level)?

The current "Color tabs based on domain" option is useful (as in IE) -- but only to a point. Tabs ought be colored based on the *2nd* level domain, NOT the 3rd or 4th level, because those tabs are still related to the same domain. Well, for most cases, anyway.

For example, "cnn.com" tabs should all have the same color, even if the domains are "money.cnn.com" or "www.cnn.com" or even "super.duper.news.at.cnn.com"! At least, there should be an option for this setting. Multiple colors gets confusing when trying to flip between related pages.

But, perhaps it might be even better if the colors of 3rd level (and deeper) domains are 'offspring' colors of the original tab color, for the case of "google.com" and "plus.google.com" where they are same 2nd level domain but very different services. For example, a red tab might spawn a lighter or darker red tab when the 3rd level domain changes.

Again, these should be options for us to choose.

Thank you for a great plug-in.

That's nice and all for a temporary workaround to my suggestion, but why not allow it to do this "automagically"? The plug-in *already* does coloring for domains, so a check-mark box to enable or disable "2nd-level only" would so much easier for the end-user. It's simply not convenient to be editing the options every time I want a domain added and colored, and the plug-in is already 80% of the way to implementing my suggestion. Please add the remaining 20%.

I'm sure I'm just one type of end-user this plug-in has: I don't particularly care to use my time assigning specific colors to specific tabs or domains. I'm glad to have colored tabs, and hope the plug-in can do all the work. I'm here to surf the web, not dance with Firefox.

Thank you!

It will not do this by default. Having it as a default will defy the purpose of regular expressions. It had it earlier but the option was removed as we implemented regular expressions.