Highlighted / Colored Tabs

[TobyTheG38]

I have an Idea that would be nice to add to the tabs section what if we could color code the tabs that can be distinguish from other open tabs just from glance. It would be nice if I had different tabs open but have the one tab color (or multiple colors) so I know that i can jump to it as soon as I found I'm looking for. For example writing an important paper with X number of tabs open but being able to find the tab that has all my notes. maybe it can be a right click or two touch click and have that option available. Just a thought 🙂

[ptzortz]

Change Tab Color

I want to change the color each tab or/and to add any comment in order to recognise the semantic tab.

Is this possible?

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[Tdream]

Yes, I've suggested this too. I haven't seen any new innovation that really popped from browsers in a while. This seems simple and intuitive. I'd also like to add colors to the palette so that I can have a multitude of them. My brain is all over. it'd be nice to at a glance organize the dozen or three tabs I have open.

[Tdream]

Pinning Tabs is great also... wanted to include that, but it doesn't help if you have 6 or 8 different directions your brain goes in.

[andjns]

Right-click the tab, select Colorize Tab and enable color picker. How hard can it be to implement?

[pootmonkey]

YES, consider this one more BIG UP-VOTE for this suggestion!

ColorfulTabs is a wonderful add-on that implemented this functionality very well until Firefox some versions ago implemented changes that rendered it non-functional and made it impossible for the developer to update it to function.

It would be fantastic for the Firefox main product to implement this functionality, providing a selection to reset all tabs to the default color, a selection to set all tabs to a given color, a selection to set any individual tab to a given color, or a selection to set all tabs open to a given domain or sub-domain to a given color.

There are several available methods and widgets for a user to specify a chosen color; I suggest at least offering the options to specify via (1) typing a hexidecimal RGB value using text, (2) clicking on a color wheel [possibly with some buttons beneath it, showing a pre-set selection of discrete basic colors], and (3) typing a HUE/SAT/LUM value using text.  Perhaps use the operating systems' built-in color picker dialogs.

[myspace]

A big +1 for this, would help me easily organize and identify tabs. Thanks for all your work!

[chairman_moo]

This seems to still be open - I would also like the ability to color code tabs without using container tabs!

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

If you wish to to test Tab Mix Plus https://github.com/onemen/TabMixPlus

https://onemen.github.io/tabmixplus-docs/help/display-tab/#customize-styles

[CliftonW]

Colour brower tabs according to a need, i.e Priority, Importants or Subject as defined by the user.

It really would be useful if I could colour my tabs to distinguish some need.  i.e long team, for later, relates to work, family etc.  Simple, but I believe it would be an effective tool.  

Cheers.

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[pootmonkey]

Hallo again, Everyone 🙂 .

@Jon, and anyone else with solid input (please don't clutter the conversation with guesses) ...
First, I recognize that this post is mostly a light attempt to satisfy a bit of curiosity.  (No amount of "Do this now!", particularly with any vitriol, is going to change the fact that there has to be one or more volunteers both willing and able to implement a change to the product.  And for all the proposed changes, there are priorities that affect the "able" part.  So yes, really, this is simply me wondering aloud, summing up what we have in this thread so far, and lightly hoping that maybe some insight will come our way as a result.  If it does, groovy!)

So, where are we with this suggestion now?

There are a LOT of posts, mostly adding support for the idea and citing a different individual's particular use cases.  (I'm not counting, or comparing the the number of posts for any other suggestions; I'm just saying that there are a LOT, in a very generic sense.)  Content-wise, they mostly run along the lines of, "I agree this suggestion is important, and I would use it [this way]," sometimes saying that lots of people or everyone would use it the same way.  As I consider the thread as a whole, I'd clean it up by copying it and replacing all of these so far with a number:  The number of people who support the idea of letting users manually color tabs as they like, perhaps with some automatic coloring according to tab characteristics the browser can actually detect.  If a post has anything more than support and perhaps a reason, I'd save that additional information in a list -- though the individual reasons mostly don't matter once we've established that they exist in quantity and that the suggestion has enough support.

A comparative few offer some specific design outlines, suggestions for how the user interface might be designed from the user side.  [There are no suggestions for how things might or can be implemented from the programming side, which is no great surprise since I think most of us -- myself included -- do not know much or anything about that side of that product.]  I won't be shy about pointing out my own post [at timestamp 10-01-2024 06:28 AM] as being the most complete and detailed of those, and doing its best to consider the full implementation in a way that addresses the particular desires and use-cases of anyone who might come along.  But there are a few other posts that contain a specific suggestion or two about the interface or result, and those are also worth including in a consolidation of useful suggestions for consideration.  (For instance, there was one person whose post suggests that they'd be happy with just a colored outline, so it might be worth considering allowing color-customization of both the tab fill and the tab outline!)

So that's where we are:  a suggested feature request going back at least to November of 2022, a couple of pages of posts supporting the idea, and some suggestions about what the user-facing side of the feature could look like.

What things does it generally take to get a suggestion implemented?  What factors play into it?  Is there anything specific we could do to help raise the priority or help get it done?  Thanks for any insight.

Yours more or less idly,
Pootmonkey  😃