URLColors

A chrome extension that adds a colored border around websites that match user inputted preferences.

URLColors: Visual Environment Flags for Browsing

"URLColors" is a Chrome extension designed to help users, especially web developers, differentiate between various environments such as development, testing, or production. It flags websites by adding a customizable, colored border that can blink, based on user-defined keywords in the URL. This visual cue helps prevent accidental operations on the wrong platform. With features like wildcard support, demo/snooze modes, and auto-reactivation, URLColors enhances browsing clarity and workflow safety.

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Extension stats

By: url-colors

Users: 7,000+

Rating: 4.66

(38)

Version: 2.2 (Last updated: 2024-03-05)

Creation date: 2018-10-12

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
tabs
scripting

Host permissions:

https://*/*

Size: 18.50K

Email: ju*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 12,154 ▲ 74

Other rankings

#2980 in Developer Tools ▲ 4

#44 in environment keyword 15

#51 in change color keyword 16 ▲ 5

#82 in color keyword 74 ▲ 5

#98 in flag keyword 21 ▲ 1

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Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

This extension allows you to flag specified websites by highlighting the website with a custom colored border. This is especially useful for developers who run their web applications on many different environments and who are constantly switching between a dev, test, and production version of an app or database. Because the application may look the same on all environments, it's easy to accidentally do something on the production environment that shouldn't have been done.

With URL Colors, you can easily have the browser flag important websites for you by specifying a the keyword to match against the tab url, the border color, width, opacity, whether or not the border should blink, and the interval of blinking. The wildcard character (*) is now supported.

It also has a demo mode, or snooze mode, so you can shut if off while presenting for a specified period of time, without worrying about reactivating it later. It automatically turns back on for you!

Want to add functionality or tweak something? Please contribute here: https://github.com/fej-snikduj/URLColors/

Thanks to @dzoba for developing this with me!

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