# color helper

> Assistive extension for people with color vision deficiency

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/color-helper](https://chrome-stats.com/d/color-helper)

## Overview

- **ID:** `color-helper`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Martin
- **Category:** search-tools
- **Daily users:** 7
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.0.8
- **Last updated:** 2024-07-01
- **First published:** 2024-01-14
- **Size:** 681 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/color-helper/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/Mtillmann/color-helper-extension](https://github.com/Mtillmann/color-helper-extension)

## Description

⚠️ Important: After installation, navigate to a regular website (not the <a href="http://addons.mozilla.org" rel="nofollow">addons.mozilla.org</a> page or the Add-On Manager), then click the icon once and confirm the permission. If the error message persists, please restart your browser. I am VERY sorry but apparently this is the way it is supposed to work with Firefox  😔

Screenshot the current viewport, a selected area or a specific element on the page and inspect the color shades and approximate color names of the pixels.

Click on the extension icon for different methods of selecting pixels to inspect

✔️ 100% free and open source
✔️ Highly customizable
✔️ All processing is done locally
✔️ Free of tracking, analytics or ads
✔️ Does not break websites

Source and more Information: <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/902b96a19e213d0728a8ed43d43ae6e5818657c5df2eaceb5335057d0874deab/https%3A//github.com/Mtillmann/color-helper-extension" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Mtillmann/color-helper-extension</a>

## Rankings

- #37,760 — Overall
- #204 — color

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `scripting`
- `activeTab`
- `contextMenus`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/color-helper)