URLColors

URLColors

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

What is URLColors?
"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.
Stats
Users: 6,000+
Version: 2.2 (Last updated: 2024-03-05)
Creation date: 2018-10-12
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • tabs
  • scripting
Host permissions:
  • https://*/*
Size: 18.50K
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Summary

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!

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • Handy for separating and highlighting test and production tabs
  • Simple and easy to use
  • Customizable border size/opacity per site
Cons
  • Lack of regex or wildcard matching
  • Difficulty with the opacity and size settings
  • Some users reported that it no longer functions
Most mentioned
  • Simple and effective
  • Handy for multiple environments
  • Needs regex or wildcard matching
Recent reviews
It is handy to separate and highlight test system tabs from production. Dead easy to use.
by Phil Hershkowitz Phil Hershkowitz, 2024-03-21

Plain, simple and very very useful regex would be nice 👍
by Nicolas Santos Nicolas Santos, 2024-02-07

Greet tool! Thank you :)
by Gabriel Szałajko Gabriel Szałajko, 2024-02-06
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Safety
Risk impact

URLColors is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install URLColors if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

URLColors is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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