Color Links

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

Color Links - Customize Your Link Colors on Google

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

Users: 20,000+

Rating: 3.51

(146)

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

Ranking

# 5,598 ▲ 45

Other rankings

#4137 in Accessibility ▼ 16

#5 in change color keyword 15 ▲ 2

#5 in links keyword 35 ▲

#10 in visited sites keyword 8

#12 in color keyword 80 ▼ 2

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Extension 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

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Pros

Helps colorblind users differentiate between visited and unvisited links
Works well for Google search and Wikipedia links
User-friendly for some browsers and operating systems like Chromium on Linux Mint and Windows 11

Cons

Requires activation on each individual site instead of a global setting
Custom hex color options do not function properly or revert to default color
Poor documentation and instructions

Most mentioned

Not working on certain sites or after recent Chrome updates
Needs a universal activation feature
Custom color settings are ineffective or limited

User reviews

Works great. Google link color differentiation is so un-friendly to people with even mild colorblindness. This extension fixes it great. I use it for Google search and Wikipedia links. Hopefully it gets updated to continue working with Chrome soon.