Grayscale Favicons

Desaturates the icons in your tabs.
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Extension stats

Manifest V3
Users: 55
2
Rating: 3.00
(1)
Version: 0.5 (Last updated: 2024-11-05)
Creation date: 2024-11-05
Permissions:
  • favicon
Size: 23.06K
URLs: Website
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge

User reviews

Works relatively well to get rid of the colorful junk in the bookmark bar. However, not every icon turns to grayscale (MS-Outlook stays in color) and several icons resume their original color when you click on them. It then takes some time to revert back to grayscale.
by Jan van Gent, 2025-03-11
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Grayscale Favicons requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
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Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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