Desaturate the favicons of all inactive tabs.

Latest Version

Version
0.5
Update
May 27, 2024
Size
25.83KiB
Developer
Category
Users
1,000+
Rating
4.23529 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Desaturate Favicons Extension

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.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Desaturate Favicons", "description": "Desaturate the favicons of all inactive tabs.", "version": "0.5", "permissions": [ "favicon" ], "content_scripts": [ { "matches": [""], "js": ["js/content.js"] } ], "web_accessible_resources": [ { "resources": ["_favicon/*"], "matches": [""], "extension_ids": ["*"] } ], "icons": { "16": "icons/icon16.png", "48": "icons/icon48.png", "128": "icons/icon128.png" }}
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User reviews

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Ryan (ID: 000000fa6fd4608b) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 09/17/2023 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

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Przemyslaw Pokorski (ID: 000000f0182d296d) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 04/14/2023 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)

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Kaysa (ID: 000000c74b611e5c) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 02/10/2023 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!

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Cam Macaulay (ID: 0000009f2ec23239) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/29/2022 Works perfectly for me.

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guljan saparowa (ID: 00000060e398d495) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/15/2020 cooooook tesekkur ederim