Yesterday I found the simple but very useful firefox extension Colorful Tabs in the list of
10 Useful Firefox Extensions That Don't Get Glamorised. By colorizing all the tabs with different colors it makes it easier to distinguish between tabs. The only thing that was missing was an easily visible highlightening for the active tab. This is why I modified the extension and added a shadow effect for all inactive tabs so that the active tab is sticking out a bit more. Here is how it looks:
I contacted the author of the Colorful Tabs extension, sent him the changes and I hope he will integrate them. For now you can try the shadow effect by using my experimental modfied version of clrtabs.jar. Just replace the file chrome/clrtabs.jar in the Colorful Tabs extension.
The firefox extension looks very nice.
AntwortenLöschenThanks for the crltabs.jar file, that is exactly what this extension need.
AntwortenLöschenI like it very much, the shadow looks nice, and no longer I need to stare to a bright-coloured-red text again.
I hope the author decides to implement this.
Thank you very much for making this interesting extension truly useful.
AntwortenLöschenI did something a bit different with it as you can see here.
AntwortenLöschenTo get this effect, save this file: clrtabs.css to your harddrive, open the colortabs xpi package in 7-zip, go to the content folder in the .jar file and drag&drop the clrtabs.css file into it. Close the archive, saying yes to all notices & re-install the colortabs extension from your harddrive.
Thanks for the comments to all of you.
AntwortenLöschen@Bookworm: I see, you went for a simple black borders and added the distinctive bold black border around the active tab. Good idea. I'll try merging the two css files and check out how our changes look when combined.