FabTabs for Firefox

Various colored Firefox tabs
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Various colored Firefox tabs with menubar showing
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FabTabs (available on the Firefox add-ons site) colors each individual tab making it easier to distinguish tabs from one another. It does this by taking a small screenshot of the site that is loaded in a tab and attempts to determine an outstanding, or primary color and then applies it to the tab.

There is a great amount of fine tuning that can be done through FabTabs settings such as, adjusting the color matching strength, tab opacity, hue and saturation percentages, and several others.

Another helpful feature of FabTabs is that you can choose to color all toolbars below the tabs to match the color of each tab which helps even more to quickly identify which tab is active.

Optional setting. Color all toolbars below tabs
Various colored Firefox tabs with matching colored navigation bar

Get FabTabs from the Firefox add-ons site


FabTabs Settings (subject to change)
Accessible through the Add-ons Manager > FabTabs > Options > FabTabs Settings

  • Color
    • Color matching strength
    • Prevent white colors strength
    • Prevent black colors strength
    • Hue (percentage)
    • Saturation (percentage)
    • Tab opacity (percentage)
    • Active tab opacity (percentage)
    • Contrast threshold for white text
  • Screenshot
    • Screenshot X
    • Screenshot Y
    • Screenshot Width
    • Screenshot Height
  • Miscellaneous
    • Only color the active tab
    • Color all toolbars below the tabs
    • Hide tab context menu items (requires restart)
    • Cache the tab color per host name

FabTabs Settings Screenshots

FabTabs settings Color tab

FabTabs settings Screenshot tab

FabTabs settings Miscellaneous tab

FabTabs settings Help tab

Get FabTabs from the Firefox add-ons site
Check out other add-ons by FabTabs developer Captain Caveman
Developer's website