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Link Control - Adjust the color of your previously viewed links.
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Description from store
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.
Latest reviews
- (2024-09-21) Mike: Doesn't seem to work on the Brave Search engine at https://search.brave.com . Any work-around?
- (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
- (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???
- (2023-10-15) Anon Sri: Can change the YouTube title color visited?
- (2023-09-29) Jeremy Segal: This rocks. Simple, intuitive, and most importantly, it WORKS.
- (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.
- (2023-06-19) Nidhi Sharma: What should I type in the # Hexcode ? It doesn't take anything I type.
- (2023-03-30) Tiffany Audette: I just installed this and it feels like a miracle! I could not find any setting in Chrome or Windows that would let me change the color of visited links. Wish I had found this sooner. Thank you for making this!!! Now visited links are a totally different color, like they always were until recently. I thought that was a basic requirement for browsing and can't believe I had to add something so fundamental to the browser.
- (2023-02-01) Vladislav Velichko: Thank you for this nice tool. Could you please add a option "apply to default link style only"? Sometimes websites use white text links with background (like a button) and that background can be the same as my selected color. Example of trouble: Original: red button with white text; With extension: red button with red text
- (2023-02-01) FamKis: Awesome in order to better see which links you have already visited. @all: Note that the extension only changes the color. How long visited links are remembered depends only on the browser.
- (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.
- (2023-01-05) Aventador 244: It's simple, it does exactly what it's supposed to, and I'm very grateful for it!
- (2022-11-16) Angel Brockett: This really saved me. A site I used all the time had light blue vs dark blue for links, drove me nuts. Red is a great color...
- (2022-06-18) Rui LU (SixRui): Can you add a White List that allow it only work for the pages in the white list.
- (2022-03-01) Phil Reinie: Have only used for an hour or so but so far, I like it, and added a color. I wish that when a color is in the list of colors that clicking on it would give you the hex value. Also note, that you can only add a hex color, so why is the # required to be in front of the hex color? (You get invalid hex if you don't put the # in front.) Like if the road bends to the left or right, ahead, they don't put up a sign that tells you that it's bending. (Unless it's a sharp dangerous curve on an unlit road.)
- (2021-11-19) H A: This is great, I always install it
- (2021-09-02) Matthew Foster: Great, easy, lightweight app. Perfect for my needs.
- (2021-08-17) Bart Black: Very simple to use and it seems to work on most of the sites I checked but NOT on Amazon. What's up with that? Thank You
- (2021-07-30) Lane Gustafson: I can't get this to work at all.
- (2021-07-11) Francisca Fernández: Great, but's not working properly on Quora. Help!
- (2021-06-11) ねろ: 最近サイトを更新しないと色が変わらなくなりました。 サイトを見る前に、アイコンを押すとすぐ色が変わります。 エッジだけでなくGooglechromeでも同じです。 前みたいに自動で変わると嬉しいのですが…。 メールのアドレスは自動で変わりますが、サイトだけは更新ボタンを押さないとだめです。
- (2021-04-07) Steph Nachname: How long does it store the links? 4 Stars because it does not allow borders in a different color because it makes visited links invisible when on a background with the same color.
- (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
- (2020-10-26) Luniul: Это прекрасно! Просто и эффективно!
- (2020-10-03) 赖巍: Can the extension use local font? Connect to https://cdn.fontawesome.com take over 10+ seconds on china.
- (2020-09-21) Jeff McGuire: Works very well, but on a site like FanFiction.net, it didn't color the recently added arrow link. Not a big problem, just something to consider.
- (2020-08-20) Mario Martinelli: Molto semplice nell'utilizzo. Finalmente si distinguono i siti già visitati!!
- (2020-08-16) Valon Doko: Love it! I wish there was a way to save our own custom colors into the window so it will always be there.
- (2020-02-03) Alexandte RFST: working, but very heavy addon for the few functionnalities it has
- (2020-01-08) Vinicius: Perfect! Very simple and easy to use also let you choose the link colors.
- (2020-01-02) Linda K: I just installed this and it is a no-brainer for those of us who are technologically uneducated. Super simple to use - no reading necessary. And it works!
- (2019-09-07) Mel Presby: Love this! Link Control works exactly as described without any junk. It does exactly what a want/need it to do with a simple interface. Great work! Thank you!
- (2019-08-03) Angel Garcia: Enhorabuena por un gran trabajo, el funcionamiento es muy sencillo y el rendimiento extraordinario
- (2019-06-16) C M: Almost perfect. It'd be really helpful to also be able to change the default link color as well. I have a very hard time reading the standard blue color on dark backgrounds.
- (2019-05-29) Ravi Huptech: For me it's not working for "www.google.com", but it's working fine for "www.google.com.au". Is there any solution for that?
- (2019-05-15) LA Lady: Thank you. This is very easy, very simple to work with even for me who is technically challenged. Links seem to be different colors on different websites but that's not a problem, at least I can see what's been visited and what has not. Thank you !
- (2019-05-07) Drasko Divic: Just installed! It seems very good! Yes! Especially because it show also links on other sites, not only on Google search.
- (2019-04-15) Ted Wichman: Intuitive and unlike most of the other plugins designed to fix this issue, works exactly as described. Great job.
- (2019-04-04) Abisarwan Rafif: Simple and really helpful.
- (2019-03-27) Moo Scree: Finally, a simple extension for simply forcing the color of visited links! It's now nice to avoid the overkill of Stylus or Stylish for the same ability.
- (2019-03-24) ВАСЯ пупкин: Почему так много весит?? Расширение отличное! Справляется даже с Ютубом! Можно выбрать цвет и менять его "на ходу". Автору спасибо!
- (2019-01-15) Thanks, really really good idea, maybe one of the best extension, appreciate your work...
- (2019-01-13) Muhammad Usman: As a colorblind person, this helps me a lot!