Desaturate Favicons
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CRX ID
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Description from extension meta
Desaturate the favicons of all inactive tabs.
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Description from store
Favicons—originally “favorites icons”—are the small icons that appear next to the page title inside a tab in Google Chrome.
Many companies choose to utilize this icon as a way to show off their logo or brand. As such, they’re often colorful and bold.
In an effort to provide a more minimalist, distraction-free, browsing experience, this extension desaturates the tab icons for all but the active tab.
In other words, all of the background tabs will appear in grayscale (“black and white”). When you switch which tab you’re viewing, the tab you were just viewing will see its icon switch to grayscale, and the new one you’re viewing will go back to full color.
The extension has no settings. There’s nothing to do. Just install it and it’ll start working right away. If you ever want the full color of icons to return, simply uninstall the extension.
Latest reviews
- Marita Sørlie
- Doesn't desaturate any tabs.
- Mateusz R
- Makes it harder for others to spot what tabs you got open ;)
- Ryan
- I like this, but not the way I wanted it to work, reason for adding this is to be able to be aware of the notifications popping up in pinned tabs since I'm deaf so audio doesn't do me any good and I want the notifications to show up in color, not desaturated. Can you do this or at least put that as an option for us? Let me know if you are! Thank you
- Ryan
- I like this, but not the way I wanted it to work, reason for adding this is to be able to be aware of the notifications popping up in pinned tabs since I'm deaf so audio doesn't do me any good and I want the notifications to show up in color, not desaturated. Can you do this or at least put that as an option for us? Let me know if you are! Thank you
- Przemyslaw Pokorski
- Sure, it desatured some favicons. It doesn't seem to care what is active though (might be due to Chrome updates since?) and some icons won't desaturate at all (e.g. Google)
- Przemyslaw Pokorski
- Sure, it desatured some favicons. It doesn't seem to care what is active though (might be due to Chrome updates since?) and some icons won't desaturate at all (e.g. Google)
- Kaysa
- After 5 years of using an LG OLED as my PC monitor, I had the tab logos burnt into the panel. Now I switched to a brand new model and searched for something to keep this from happening again, so this extension is a real life saver for my and my OLED. Thanks alot!
- Kaysa
- After 5 years of using an LG OLED as my PC monitor, I had the tab logos burnt into the panel. Now I switched to a brand new model and searched for something to keep this from happening again, so this extension is a real life saver for my and my OLED. Thanks alot!
- Cam Macaulay
- Works perfectly for me.
- Cam Macaulay
- Works perfectly for me.
- guljan saparowa
- cooooook tesekkur ederim
- Rafal Zelazo
- Works on out of focus tabs as advertised but there's a problem at the moment. For me personally the difference is not flagrant enough to warrant installing the extensions though. Maybe if the icons were also lighter? (or more transparent, idk, cause lighter favicons would not work on dark themes) The big issue is that it also desaturates favicons in the bookmarks!
- Rafal Zelazo
- Works on out of focus tabs as advertised but there's a problem at the moment. For me personally the difference is not flagrant enough to warrant installing the extensions though. Maybe if the icons were also lighter? (or more transparent, idk, cause lighter favicons would not work on dark themes) The big issue is that it also desaturates favicons in the bookmarks!
- Mehul Gupta
- Works most of the time, only problem is when you have tabs of the same icon or similar domain address. I don't know if it's even possible to fix that. The other problem is that is stopped working for my google docs after sometime; so I suppose its best for shorter session. Perhaps it could be because of an extension conflict. Request, can you please make a half saturate mode? Some of my icons must be shown outside of B &W as I do color sensitive work.
- Mehul Gupta
- Works most of the time, only problem is when you have tabs of the same icon or similar domain address. I don't know if it's even possible to fix that. The other problem is that is stopped working for my google docs after sometime; so I suppose its best for shorter session. Perhaps it could be because of an extension conflict. Request, can you please make a half saturate mode? Some of my icons must be shown outside of B &W as I do color sensitive work.
- Ecualizatv On Line (Televisión Digital)
- me encanta muy bueno
- Jaymie Gonzo
- Doesn't seem to work whatsoever.
- Jaymie Gonzo
- Doesn't seem to work whatsoever.
- Neil Yang
- 很不错的小功能
- Devin Rhode
- after install, only de-saturated first favicon. will have to fix this because I am a crx developer
- Devin Rhode
- after install, only de-saturated first favicon. will have to fix this because I am a crx developer