Color Links

This extension allows you to change the color of your visited links

What is Color Links?

Color Links is a Google Chrome extension developed to improve the user's browsing experience by allowing customization of the color of visited links. This extension is especially beneficial for color deficient individuals. It provides a plethora of color options, enabling color contrast adjustments for easy recognition of links already visited. It's a lightweight, easy to use tool that gives visual confirmation of visited sites, thus increasing web browsing efficiency.

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By: therynamo

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Users: 20,000+

Rating: 3.48 (140)

Version: 0.2.2 (Last updated: 2020-08-22)

Creation date: 2020-06-08

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab
https://ajax.googleapis.com/
storage

Size: 179.20K

Email: td*****@yahoo.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 6074 ▼ 55

Other rankings

#3910 in Accessibility ▲ 5 #29 in links keyword 42 ▼ 5 #36 in contribute keyword 9 ▲ 2 #65 in color keyword 76 ▲ 7 #250 in toggle keyword 23 ▼ 4

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Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Summary

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Color Links enhances how users navigate visited page search results on the web by allowing the user to select the color of the visited link. Color Links is an excellent enhancement for color deficient users. The ability to control the color of the visited site link, improves the visual comfort of the search by creating a color contrast that is appealing to the user.

Browsing search results on google.com can be overwhelming, especially when the default colors for referencing visited links can be similar for end users with decreased ability to discern colors. Multiple color options are available in this light weight extension that will help you immediately sort out your visited links. Color Links is not only light weight but it is only one click. One click and the visited link stands out giving you quick visual confirmation of where you have already been.

To get started, navigate to a page, toggle color links to the on (or green) position, and select your color. You can turn color links off at any time if you'd like by setting the toggle to off (or red).

Developer Notes:

If you're interested in the project, or maybe you want to contribute, be sure to check out the open source repository hosted here https://github.com/therynamo/color-links. View the README for instructions on contributing. All contributions are welcomed, and we will get to them as soon as we can.

User reviews

User reviews summary

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

Ability to use custom hex colors
Helpful for individuals with color vision deficiencies
Useful for researchers and academics to differentiate between visited and new pages

Cons

Issues with compatibility on certain websites
Some users experienced difficulties with saving custom hex colors
Limited functionality across different browsers

Most mentioned

Works as advertised
Custom color options
Compatibility issues with Google search results page

Recent reviews

easy and simple :) But it bites with the addon Better Dark Mode, where all colors are invisible :( https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/better-dark-mode/ibkdocnpanhgcbbfadninaflpgjecmod

Clemens Ratte-Polle, 2024-04-12

super simple et marche parfaitement merci!

Maxime “MaX” Laurent, 2021-01-30

OMG I've been so sick of that pale purple look on links since 1996! This is so useful. Now visited links really stand out (I picked deep green). I've used something similar in Firefox but didn't know I could get this for Chrome (actually Brave Browser--light-years faster than Chrome)

MurderChickenXL, 2020-07-07

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Safety

Risk impact

Color Links may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.