# ColorZilla

> Advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Gradient Generator and other colorful goodies...

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `colorzilla`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Alex Sirota
- **Category:** web-development
- **Daily users:** 132,546
- **Weekly downloads:** 1,101
- **Rating:** 4.10 / 5 (435 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.4resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2004-09-28
- **Size:** 272 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/colorzilla/)
- **Website:** [http://www.colorzilla.com/](http://www.colorzilla.com/)

## Description

ColorZilla is a powerful Chrome extension designed for web designers and developers who need precise color control. Easily extract any color from your browser with the Eyedropper tool, similar to Photoshop's advanced color picker. Generate CSS gradients effortlessly and analyze website color palettes with the webpage color analyzer. Additional features include palette viewing, color history tracking, element info display, auto-copy to clipboard, and keyboard shortcuts. Whether you’re fine-tuning colors for design projects or analyzing web pages, ColorZilla provides sophisticated color management, all for free. For support or queries, users are encouraged to contact the developers directly at http://colorzilla.com/contact/ to ensure quick troubleshooting and assistance.

## Rankings

- #140 — Overall
- #19 — Web Development
- #3 — will
- #4 — eyedropper
- #6 — color
- #8 — zillow

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `<all_urls>`
- `storage`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension was updated more than 6 months ago. Older versions are more likely to be stable and safe.

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## Review summary

Users find ColorZilla to be a very helpful and reliable color picking tool that functions well and is useful for their needs. However, multiple users mention issues with the copy to clipboard feature, especially on Mac, and that the picked color disappears too quickly, which makes it difficult to retrieve after selection.

### Pros

- Very useful and functional tool
- Helpful for picking colors
- Reliable and consistent performance over time

### Cons

- Copy to clipboard function does not work properly on Mac
- Picked color disappears too quickly preventing retrieval

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