Desaturate Favicons

Desaturate the favicons of all inactive tabs.

Desaturate Favicons - A Distraction-Free Chrome Extension

"Desaturate Favicons" is a Chrome extension designed for a minimalistic, less distracting browsing experience. It works by converting the colourful favicons of inactive tabs into grayscale, leaving the active tab's favicon in its original color. There are no configurations or settings needed - it performs its function right after installation. To revert to the colored icons, just uninstall the extension.

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Extension stats

By: Adam Schwartz

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.24

(17)

Version: 0.5 (Last updated: 2024-05-28)

Creation date: 2014-04-15

Permissions:

favicon

Size: 26.45K

Email: zt*****@gmail.com

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 24,708 ▲ 7

Other rankings

#671 in Functionality & UI ▲ 3 #130 in icon keyword 20 ▲ 3

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Helps prevent OLED screen burn-in.
Works on out of focus tabs as advertised.
Useful for decluttering visual noise in tab icons.
Many users find it works perfectly.
The extension is appreciated for its functionality.

Cons

Doesn't always desaturate all favicons, including popular icons like Google.
Desaturation may not be noticeable enough for some users.
Desaturates favicons in bookmarks, which some users do not prefer.
Stops working for some specific types of documents or services, like Google Docs, after a while.
Only desaturates the first favicon after installation for some users.

Most mentioned

Not effective for pinned tabs notifications.
Desaturation is too subtle for some users.
Desaturates icons in bookmarks.
Burn-in prevention for OLED screens.
Request for additional features like a half saturate mode.

User reviews

Makes it harder for others to spot what tabs you got open ;)

Mateusz R, 2024-04-16

超讚，很好用。要是也能出一個自動降低書籤列的色彩的插件就好了。 Awesome, very useful. It would be great if there was also a plugin to automatically reduce the color saturation of the bookmark bar.

阿利, 2024-04-03

I like this, but not the way I wanted it to work, reason for adding this is to be able to be aware of the notifications popping up in pinned tabs since I'm deaf so audio doesn't do me any good and I want the notifications to show up in color, not desaturated. Can you do this or at least put that as an option for us? Let me know if you are! Thank you

Ryan, 2023-09-17

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Desaturate Favicons requires very minimum permissions.

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