Thursday, June 14, 2012

Outline Single Tab in Firefox with ColorfulTabs

Sometimes it happens that you need to pay a special attention on site you are working with. It could be a production site where you have a read/write account but should be careful to prevent of doing changes by mistake. I have found a simple way to outline such sites with color in Firefox using ColorfulTabs add-on.

After the installation you may see a default coloring of tabs like this:

As for me that number of colors is a bit annoying and does not look like I want it to be. So I want to outline only domains I need to pay my attention on.

Open preferences of ColorfulTabs add-on. In the General section change the Use Default Palette to Generate Colors By Domain Hostname:

Then remove everything in Presets section and add this instead:

Now you got two domain patterns (that are regular expressions) and tab color chosen. Make sure the order of domain patterns is correct - the most restrictive patterns should go lower. The .* means any domain and .*massivecoding.blogspot.com is my special site.

Finally, the add-on behaves as expected:

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