Image Background Color Picker

Image Background Color Picker

Lets you choose a background color for plain images.

What is Image Background Color Picker?
"Image Background Color Picker" is a Firefox add-on developed to enhance users' viewing experience by enabling them to select any color, or the checkerboard option, as a background when viewing plain images. Although the add-on will no longer be maintained, its source remains available to fork on GitLab and can be downloaded from the Firefox store.
Merlin
Stats
By: Marnes
Users: 2,858 ▲ 45
Rating: 3.79 (29)
Version: 1.1.11 (Last updated: 2022-06-07)
Creation date: 2017-10-05
Weekly download count: 86
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 123.73K
URLs: Website
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Image Background Color Picker
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Merlin
Summary

This addon won't be maintained further. I'm shelving this project due to lack of interest/utility and too much burden. The addon will remain available for download as long as the store allows, and the source on gitlab will also remain available to fork. I do have a greasyfork account and may publish works there in the future. I have mild intentions to reimplement the core functionality of CSL, IBCP, and DID as public userscripts.

Available for Chrome too.

Functionality You can select any color or the checkerboard option, and it will be applied to all direct image view tabs.

The Options screen will automatically open after add-on updates if they force a change to any of your settings.

Please rate/review/donate! :) A lot of time and work goes into creating my addons, and making changes or troubleshooting issues for users.

Problem, bug, broken, question, request? Please use the linked support site or email for all non-review communication. AMO policy protects both users and developers by demanding certain quality standards from addons as well as reviews. Severely disfunctional addons are not published. Reviews and ratings must consider the entire addon, set reasonable expectations, and be timeless: a bad rating focusing solely on a systemic bug or on a problem not suffered by other users will stay long after the issue is resolved. AMO also gives extremely limited communication abilities, so contacting me properly will get your issue resolved much better and faster.

User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Does exactly what it says without clutter
  • Does not slow the browser down
  • Allows display of transparent background in images, such as PNGs, with a dark or checkerboard pattern
  • Simple configuration with limited options, making it straightforward to use
  • Compatible with new versions of Firefox
Cons
  • One user found the small lines of the checkerboard pattern to be very annoying
  • The need for permissions to access data on all websites raised concerns for one user
Most mentioned
  • Works well and without causing browser slowdown
  • Concerns about permission requirements in the latest update
  • Provides functionality to change the background color of images to alleviate issues with default white color
  • Option to use a checkerboard pattern for transparent image backgrounds
Recent reviews
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Safety
Risk impact

Image Background Color Picker may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

Image Background Color Picker has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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