Black & White

Name: Black & White
Rating: 4.33372641509434 (848 reviews)
Author: The Chrome team

Black & White: a timeless combination

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The Black & White Chrome Extension embodies a timeless combination, bringing classic monochrome aesthetics to your browsing experience. With a sleek and minimalistic design, it transforms the look and feel of your browser, offering simplicity and elegance. Users can enjoy a distraction-free, sophisticated interface that emphasizes content without unnecessary color distractions.

Ideal for those who appreciate vintage style and want to minimize visual clutter, the Black & White extension enhances readability and provides a unique, stylish browsing environment. Its seamless integration ensures smooth performance without sacrificing functionality or user experience.

By:: The Chrome team
Users:: 300,000+
Rating:: 4.33
(848) 1 new ratings
Version:: 2.1 (Last updated: 2019-03-08)
Creation date:: 2019-03-08
Risk:: Very low risk impact Low risk likelihood
Size:: 3.35K
Email:: fi*****@googlegroups.com
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: 19 hours ago

Ranking

# 1,029 ▲ 8

Other rankings

#64 in team keyword 20 ▼ 6 #71 in black theme keyword 74 ▼ 2

User reviews

Users appreciate Black & White for its simple, minimalist, and high-contrast design that makes active tabs clearly visible. The theme offers a calming visual break with a clean layout ideal for those seeking less flashy interfaces. Common complaints include distracting thick vertical tab separators and nearly invisible thin lines under tab groups. Several users wish for customizable background images and express concerns about visual elements like tab roundness. Overall, it is a robust, stylish theme favored for its clarity and simplicity.

Pros

Simple and minimalist design that users find visually appealing and calming.
Excellent black and white contrast making active tabs clearly distinguishable.
Good visibility and differentiation of active tabs from inactive ones.
Clean and neat tab separators and overall layout.
Well-suited for users who prefer less flashy, robust, and calming themes.

Cons

Distracting vertical thick white double-lines as tab separators noted by multiple users.
Very thin color lines under tab groups that are practically invisible.
Inability to upload or customize background images beyond the default black and white.
Some users find the roundness of Chrome's tabs does not look good with this theme.
Lack of official Google-made gray and black combination themes as requested by users.

Recent reviews

Everything is just perfect!!

Tae-Wan (Keith) Kim, 2025-04-23

シンプルで見やすい！

柳川俊介, 2025-02-21

- The vertical thick white double-lines as tab separators are very distractive. - The color line underneath the tab groups is so thin that it is practically invisible. Fix those two things and it has 5 stars. PS: No vertical lines between tabs may be a clean choice.

Daniel Sevcik, 2025-01-16

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Black & White does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

Low This permission has no access or impact on the user's system or data, thus carrying no risk.

Risk likelihood

Black & White has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

Medium This extension has medium user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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