Desaturate Favicons

Desaturate the favicons of all inactive tabs.
What is Desaturate Favicons?
Desaturate Favicons is a Firefox add-on that turns the favicons of inactive tabs into black and white. This helps you stay focused on the current tab and improves productivity. Please note that it may not work on certain pages like Slack and Firefox for Android.

Add-on stats

Users: 130 ▼ -1
Rating: 3.92 (12)
Version: 0.0.4resigned1 (Last updated: 2024-04-25)
Creation date: 2017-11-04
Weekly download count: 2
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • <all_urls>
  • tabs
Size: 30.61K
URLs: Website

Other platforms

Desaturate Favicons (v0.5)
4.24 (17) 1,000
Not available on Edge
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Add-on summary

Makes the favicons for background tabs black and white, to make you keep focus on the current tab only. Does not work on AMO, internal pages and Firefox for Android. May not use the correct favicon on some pages, like Slack.

If you see white squares, disable privacy.resistFingerprinting on about:config!

A port of Chrome Desaturate Favicons.

User reviews

Always loved this extension. I hope it will eventually support the upcoming vertical tabs (currently in Firefox Nightly).

Does it work and do what it says? Yes. But it is also unusable for daily use because it's takes a significant time (one-two seconds) for recolourising the tabs when switching between them. This looks jarring to the eye. It also takes some time to readjust when closing a tab.
by Milo, 2021-08-01

Makes the tab bars much less distracting. Thank you!
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Desaturate Favicons requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Desaturate Favicons is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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