ColorZilla
Advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Gradient Generator and other colorful goodies
What is ColorZilla?
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Summary
ColorZilla is the most user friendly, full-featured, secure and reliable color picker and color related suite of tools. It is one of the most popular Chrome and Firefox developer extensions with over 10 million downloads worldwide.
With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. And it can do so much more...
== Features ==
✓ Eyedropper - get the color of any pixel on the page ✓ Advanced Color Picker (similar to Photoshop's) ✓ Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator ✓ Webpage Color Analyzer - get a color palette for any site ✓ Palette Viewer with 7 pre-installed palettes ✓ Color History of recently picked colors ✓ Various sampling sizes - 1x1, 3x3, 5x5, 11x11 and 25x25 pixels ✓ Sample average color of any selected area ✓ Displays element information like tag name, class, id, size etc.
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Pros
- Easy access to hexadecimal colors
- Very useful for web designers and artists
- Simple and effective with many features
- Facilitates matching colors accurately
- Iconic and memorable extension
Cons
- Potential security issue mentioned with search redirects to unwanted sites
- Desire for a feature to check web accessibility color contrast
- Request for additional settings options for default color picking mode
- Suggestion to polish the UI to match other color pickers like Snap Color Picker
Most mentioned
- Useful and practical for design work
- Time-saving and efficient for capturing colors from web pages
- Easy to use with one-click color picking
- Helpful for web developers working with CSS
- Consistent high-quality performance over years
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Safety
Risk impact
ColorZilla is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install ColorZilla if you trust the publisher.
Risk likelihood
ColorZilla has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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