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Link Control

by John Datserakis

v2.0.6 Updated Oct 31, 2024 441KiB
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★ 4.13
90 reviews
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⚠️Not updated in over a year

Description

No more trying to tell the difference between blue and dark-purple at 2 a.m. Easily customize the color of your visited links by selecting from a range of predefined colors or choosing your own custom color. Use the included blocklist to prevent Link Control from running on certain sites, or, if you prefer, use the allowlist to enable Link Control only on certain sites. Good for users who have a tough time with colors or who are color-blind, as you can choose exactly the color you want for your visited and default (non-visited) links. For me, I work a lot at night and have a tough time distinguishing those regular blue links from the purple visited links. It started costing me time so I decided I would make this extension to help out myself and others. # Update - v2.0.6 - 10-21-2024 - Update YouTube support # Update - v2.0.2 - 04-16-2024 - Overhaul UI to make it easier to use - Add ability to additionally color the default (non-visited) links - Add allowlist (whitelist) in addition to the existing blocklist (blacklist) - Add additional contrast option # Update - v1.1.0 - 04-06-2019 - Added editing of blacklist. - Added button to add current URL to blacklist. - Adjusted styling.
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Reviews (18 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-09
alveolate hermeneutist (alveolate)

stopped working out of the blue for me, not sure if it's a chrome update

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-24
Jacob Peled

Not working when using the linkDump extension that allow opening multiple links

★☆☆☆☆2024-10-30
Вася Пупкин

2024/10/30 doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2023-10-22
M R

It worked so well for years, all of a sudden not now on chrome. What's wrong????? I might try to remove it, then reinstall it, but I doubt that will help. Developers, can you help???

★☆☆☆☆2023-01-30
Frank Kennedy

Does not work at all for me in Chrome. Clicking color chooser dots does nothing. Entering a #... hex color does nothing.

★☆☆☆☆2021-07-30
Lane Gustafson

I can't get this to work at all.

★☆☆☆☆2021-03-17
Kamal A

did not work at all in high contrast

★☆☆☆☆2021-02-23
Alan McGhee

DOES NOT WORK Attempt to modify colors - FAILS Following a link - LINK color DOES NOT CHANGE NO EPLAINTIONAN OF BLACKLISITNG AT

★★☆☆☆2024-10-31
Zōhāīb Mūshtāq Āhmād

not working anymore

★★☆☆☆2023-11-06
Ashish Alexander

Slower than: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/visited-links-marker/nnkhkkkcmkcncmpigbhnlnblcmafjchm/related and https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/color-links/dmdcmdkebcckpaclobmdphoneaiokggb

★★★☆☆2025-12-29
T W

Link Control isn't working properly with this extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/linkclump-plus/ainlglbojoodfdbndbfofojhmjbmelmm on latest Chrome. When multiple links are opened at once/in sequence, the opened link wont change color. Please fix this! Many thanks!

★★★☆☆2025-01-01
Digital World

it works perfectly but when i use any cleaner for my pc juck file this link also reset and than its hard to find visited link as i m a story writer so i need some refrence so if this tool can sync online or some kind than i can pay for this its amazing

★★★☆☆2024-11-11
solomon lee

it's working but a bit of delay

★★★☆☆2024-10-31
Spike Schweska

been working fine up until now.. it's broken now.

★★★☆☆2024-10-29
Tony Hartwig

Yes Update 2.0.5 seems to have stopped working?

★★★☆☆2024-10-29
Jason Chia

Updated to 2.0.5 on 29Oct and extension stopped working. Link colors not changed.

★★★☆☆2023-12-27
Vlcoun

Does not work on youtube.

★★★☆☆2023-06-24
hack me “hackersgetlife” if you can

I am having an issue in Chrome on most sites, but not all sites all the time. I have used this extension for years with no issues until recently (. I don't understand why it wont even work in the extension store or other google based pages now. I am really not sure what has changed so prevent what was an awesome tool from continuing to stay awesome, but I am forced to have to try another developer's extension to see if it is a problem with the general functionality within Chrome settings or if it can be isolated to an issue with just Link Control. Please let me know if you have changed code that is where the issue is based. Thank you.

Permissions (4)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 2.0.6
Updated Oct 31, 2024
Size 441KiB
First Seen Mar 31, 2026