ColorfulTabs for Firefox
…tabbing got colored…
ColorfulTabs is an add-on for the popular browser Firefox. Firefox is known for its tabbed-browsing feature(s). ColorfulTabs takes the experience to the next level. ColorfulTabs colors every tab in a unique color and makes them easy to distinguish while enhancing the appeal of the Firefox interface.ColorfulTabs is the favorite of the Firefox users. In the words of one of the million users…
“…Just wanted to let you know I absolutely love
your Colourful Tabs add on for Firefox! It’s one of the best and my personal favourite
of all add-ons available. Thank you so much for this!…”
ColorfulTabs has received various awards and has been distributed* with popular IT magzines around the world. ColorfulTabs made it into BBC’s show ‘Click’ in June 2007. You may find the text version of the program at BBC Click Online. A video of the same is hosted at the BBC site at BBC Click Archives (under the 9th June archives).
Install or Download
ColorfulTabs is a licensed software. Downloading, installing or any kind of use means that you agree to abide by the terms of the license.
ColorfulTabs License
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
ColorfulTabs Download
Install Colorful Tabs for Firefox 3 (Right-click to download)
ColorfulTabs Documentation
Help and Documentation. If you still face issues report them at Binary Turf Forums.
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nome
This worked perfectly the 1st time I installed, looks good .
Thanks guys
Colorful Tabs was crucial to my organization skills. I would have all my tabs synchronized to my school organization colors and I officially love this add-on.
Great plugin, (I’ve been using it for awhile now) but download links for the latest version doesn’t seem to be working.
It just been uploaded so will take another hour or half to be replicated to all the mirrors.
cannot install colorfultabs!! v3.9.6 isn’t on mozillas server!!
The link for updating the newest version of colorfultabs does not work
The new version 3.9.6 will not install. I receive a download error of 228 whether trying to install by using the Extensions Manager update function or by using the install/update link provided above. In fact the link above will not allow one to download the file either.
Just to let you know, this version, 3.9.6 will not install into my firefox. It doesn’t work either from here or the official addons site. WinZip says this is not a valid file. Version 3.9.4 is installed and working fine.
My firefox:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091030 Shiretoko/3.5.5pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) – Build ID: 20091030044654
While attempting to install or download this addon I receive the following error:
Firefox could not install the file at
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/addons/1368/colorfultabs-3.9.7-fx.xpi
because: Download error
-228
File download size is approximately 321 bytes.
It’s unfortunate that we are seeing this issue over the weekend. Something is wrong on the server side and most of the Mozilla team is away on the weekend.
A temporary fix is to download and install the new version manually from here.
A bug has been created and is being tracked at Addon is repeatedly being deleted from the servers.
Additionally a discussion is in progress in the forums New version fails to downloadwhere you can join in and introduce your suggestions/feedback on the issue.
I sincerely apologize for this inconvenience and assure you that I’m doing everything on my part to get this issue resolved and things up and running.
Download is working again. Appreciate your guys efforts.
THAAAAAAAANK YOU!!!
EVERYTHING WORKS GREAT!!
THX
sam
Hi.
This works great, but there is one thing I would like.
I’m using “Generate colors by hostname” and now I have 2 sites from the same domain which I would like to differentiate. But both comes with the same color on the tab.
I would like test.domain.com have the tab colored blue and prod.domain.com colored red.
Please add this to the wish list
Thank you.
EISK: Please go to the ColorfulTabs Options and under the “Presets” tab, enable custom coloring for the requisite domains.
When will this be compatible with 3.6 ? I am using 3.6b4pre and would love to see it work as this feature is one I am used to getting in firefox. Thanks.
After a little trying, I found that I had to put the domains i a certain order.
Thanks for a nice add-on!
I also wasn’t specific enough in my question.
I have one site ‘test.service.domain.com’ and another ’service.domain.com’.
With ‘ ‘test.service.domain.com’ first and then ’service.domain.com’, both got the same color. But by changing the order, they got the colors I wanted.
Now it works like a dream
You write that the new version is compatible with Sea Monkey 2.0 but its not available anywhere. So how I go about it.
It’s the same as the one for Firefox. You could’ve installed from this page too. But you can also install from AMO https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/1368.
Sorry to point out that after every log off, colourful tabs downloaded disappear and donot install again despite best efforts. In this context, help has been sought from Shri Sharma Ji who introduced the same. Hope, the problem will be sorted out and surfing the net w’d be a great experience.
Thanks to Shri Shivanand Sharma Ji once again.
Malik on 12th December, 2009
Used this extension for years and it’s brilliant.
Now that Thunderbird 3 has tabs, is there any chance of porting it over to that?
The tabs in Thunderbird are inherited from the structure of Firefox 2 series. Any chance someone can hack one of the ColorfulTabs version made for Firefox 2 and see if this can be done? There is a thread in the forums in case you wish to pursue this further.
Will Thunderbird 3.1 be based on Firefox 3 series or still Firefox 2 ones?
Thanks