Tab Colorizer Free | Colorize your tab's icon! icon

Tab Colorizer Free | Colorize your tab's icon!

by Gooberworks LLC

v0.15 Updated Jan 7, 2026 283KiB
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★ 2.30
99 reviews
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Description

This free version lets you change the color of a tab’s icon using a basic set of colors — a simple way to get a feel for how Tab Colorizer works. With Tab Colorizer Pro, you unlock the full experience: advanced overlay mode, per-domain color rules, blending modes, and syncing across browsers. Pro is designed for anyone who keeps many tabs open and wants consistent, intentional visual organization across their entire workflow. Try it free, then upgrade when you’re ready for full control. FEATURES ✔ Basic solid tab colors (Free) ✗ Color-persistence on refresh (Pro) ✗ Unlimited color palette (Pro) ✗ Overlay mode (Pro) ✗ Per-domain color sets (Pro) ✗ Blending modes (Pro) ✗ Sync tab-color across browsers (Pro)
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Reviews (64 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-03
Jesse Watts

Ctrl+Sift+Space does nothing. Don't bother adding this extension.

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-28
James “Jimmie” Monica

Garbaggio.

★☆☆☆☆2025-05-14
THE AZ SHOW

suqs

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-06
Alvin Lam

The original web site icon will replace with an ugly square "colored" icon, the tab remains the same. The name for this extension is misleading.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-15
Lisa Stuhr

Doesn't work!

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-14
Ramon Hamm

Junk, doesn't work. It took a tab icon and turned it into a gray circle, gray was the only color. Brave/Win 11.

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-09
Patricia

Doesnt work

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-11
David Naylor

Should be called Tab icon Colorizer, not Tab colorizer

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-17
Trent Brooks

This extension is mis-named. It does not change the TAB color it changes the icon to a blank-square in a variety of colors. This may work for you if all of the tabs that you use are the same webpage/program.

★☆☆☆☆2023-11-11
A A

Doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2023-02-09
Cena Bale

pff i wanna file path anti-white.png & .jpg & .ico then upload...

★☆☆☆☆2022-12-01
patrick fort

This spamming garbage made its "extention's options page" as my home page! Every day I open up chrome I'm greeted with "Tab Colorizer: How to use"! Can't desable this page, so I had to delete this extention! Also it does NOT work! The colors disapear when you refrech the pages! 0 Stars. Reported for Google!

★☆☆☆☆2022-08-06
Roo La'Roo

Plugin is called "Tab Colorizer" and directly from the FAQ, it states "Does not color tabs by design, just the icon." Get off my browser.

★☆☆☆☆2022-07-27
Another Planet’s Hell

Does absolutely nothing.

★☆☆☆☆2022-02-04
A.

Literally doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2022-01-13
Thomas Wypa

Never worked

★☆☆☆☆2021-11-29
PeaceBy Jesus

Simply does not work. What I am still looking for is a ext. comparable to the Colorful Tabs ext. for Firefox legacy (ESR 57). https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51713446009_7681b8f990.jpg

★☆☆☆☆2021-11-16
Rubina Kanwal

Doesn't work. Waste of time.

★☆☆☆☆2021-09-07
Axel Gauffre

It just colors the favicon...

★☆☆☆☆2021-04-14
Bobobeebop

no fwokr

★☆☆☆☆2021-03-11
S Scott

Couldn't get it to work. I tried following all of the FAQs. I just need a simple extension that lets me assign colors to tabs so I know what instance of a product I am in, production, test, etc. Chrome Version 89.0.4389.82 (Official Build) (64-bit)

★☆☆☆☆2021-03-09
One JGM

DEAD. Does not function. Error: _generated_background_page.html:0 (anonymous function)

★☆☆☆☆2020-12-20
Afirmanta

One star cause it colors, but not the tabs, It colors icons of webs that are from the website. And also stupid and useless thing is that, it colors it randomly. You can pick colors but anyway you can't mange it in anyway, it's random

★☆☆☆☆2020-12-05
Nadira Begum

I didn't like how it covered up the icon so I deleted it but now all my tabs are still covered up with a coloured box and isn't going away and doesn't even say in the description or the instruction how to remove it. Now all my tabs have a purple square and I don't know which is which.

★☆☆☆☆2020-10-25
Jemuel Sagun

Not Working!!!

★☆☆☆☆2020-09-20
Ed

I am used to using "ColorfulTabs" in Sea Monkey (the true descendant of Netscape). The color selection is vastly greater, the colors themselves are much brighter (some almost glowing) compared to the flat, relatively lifeless pastels available here, the actual tab is colored, and most importantly, THEY STICK. At best, right after setting up this really doesn't even color the icons, it replaces them with a little square block of color (or maybe just covers them up, the result is the same). And at the first refresh of the page even that goes away. Do not bother installing it, IF it ever worked at some time in the past, it has not kept up with browser changes. A totally useless, waste of time. Windows 10 Pro, doubt it matters what you're running though.

★☆☆☆☆2020-08-25
J

Misleading. Only changes tab icon to a color, and not the whole tab

★☆☆☆☆2020-08-19
Studio360 Live

Not work, on actual chrome, on windows 10 Pro

★☆☆☆☆2020-08-07
Chava Ferrer

MacOS Catalina. Does not work. I tried changing the shortcuts, removing my chrome themes, restarting chrome, nothing works.

★☆☆☆☆2020-07-08
tarcisio silva

trahs lost time

★☆☆☆☆2020-07-05
emily e

it worked fine for me but its so stupid. why would it only change the icon and not the actual tab marker, so you don't even know what you're clicking on unless you've memorized the order of your tabs. at least its not false advertising because its in the web store ad, but why does this need to exist?

★☆☆☆☆2020-02-18
Adriana Herrera

actually it does NOT color the tab, it just changes the Favicon with colored square. And is even worst, because i dont know which tab is which website, at least with the Favicon i reconized them, now not! maybe i was asking too much and is too difficult to develop, i dont know!

★☆☆☆☆2020-01-23
Jan Neff-Sinclair

I don't know how long I played around with this until I figured out that it was a BAIT'N'SWITCH. This extension DOES NOT color your tabs. It messes around with the favicon. In the absence of colored tabs, the only way to figure out what a tab is at a glance is to recognize it's favicon. Well, this extension erases the favicon and replaces it with a solid color. Once again, this extension DOES NOT COLOR THE TAB. The creator should change the name. It is very deceptive and I do not appreciate wasting all that time to learn that it is false advertising. SHAME ON YOU!!!

★☆☆☆☆2020-01-02
Phil Ringsmuth

I installed this extension, refreshed a tab and assigned a color to it. Then I refreshed the tab again and the color went away. This is useless if the color doesn't stay on the tab.

★☆☆☆☆2019-12-27
012wtf EZ

doesnt work after entering shortcut, WIN 7 x64

★☆☆☆☆2019-11-21
Linda Brown

It setup great! However, refreshing a page made the tab lose the color that was applied. This makes the extension a waste of time.

★☆☆☆☆2019-10-17
Ron Grandia

Broken! Too bad, it seems like just what I was looking for.

★☆☆☆☆2019-08-03
Joanne Kim

it was so bad i pressed ctrl+shift+space BUT NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if anybody knows how to fix this please reply. but i think it only works for macs

★☆☆☆☆2019-08-02
Shilajit Kar

Not working in Windows

★☆☆☆☆2019-07-21
Yaniv Eliash

doesn't work on my chrome's mbp

★☆☆☆☆2019-06-29
City 348

Not working whatsoever!!! Stop wasting our times. Stop being mediocre!

★☆☆☆☆2019-05-09
Marie Johnson

Doesn't do a darn thing! I pressed Ctrl+Shift+Space and NOTHING happens tabs are all still WHITE BACKGROUND! ALL I WANT IS A DIFFERENT BACKGROUND for the little tab NOT THE PAGE. Firefox does this! The WHITE for everything is just too hard to see which tab I'm on, at the very least I'd like the active tab a different collor!!!!

★☆☆☆☆2019-04-08
Eloy Ortiz Hernandez

I add new colors and never it work.

★☆☆☆☆2019-03-24
Gabi Koonings

It worked for a little bit. No matter what keys i try to use, now it won't start, ever. Cannot turn it off or on, default is off, so i can't do anything. No idea why. So it's useless as of now.

★☆☆☆☆2018-10-23
Cat Bird

Did not work. I set the keys, everything it told me. Still didn't work. Hate it

★☆☆☆☆2018-09-25
M, MT;

doesn´t work and it is very bad explained

★☆☆☆☆2018-05-21
captain obvious

Does not work. Mac El Capitan

★★☆☆☆2025-08-26
Tim Marshall

Too hard to use: 1. CTRL-shift-space did nothing 2. Why not enable it by right-clicking on tab, which is the bleeding obvious?

★★☆☆☆2024-03-09
Shirl Anne

It doesn't work.

★★☆☆☆2023-11-01
Jakub Chmielewski

Incompatible with Chrome Remote Desktop. Getting Unknown Error when connecting to a remote host. Had to remove this addon to get rid of the problem.

Permissions (2)

Permissions

storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 0.15
Updated Jan 7, 2026
Size 283KiB
First Seen Mar 26, 2026