Grayscale Tool

Press shift+g (or create your own key shortcut) to (de)activate grayscaling of a web page.

What is Grayscale Tool?

"Grayscale Tool" is a specialized browser extension for Google Chrome, designed to simplify the process of transforming a web page's content into grayscale. Primarily best suited for web designers seeking to test contrast, it persists between page loads and can be activated using a customizable shortcut. Equally, any individual requiring an on-demand grayscale feature for a webpage may find the Grayscale Tool beneficial.

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Extension stats

By: Emanuel Malmquist

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Users: 3,000+

Rating: 2.54 (46)

Version: 2.0 (Last updated: 2014-10-19)

Creation date: 2014-10-19

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

storage

Size: 4.55K

Ranking

# 17699 ▼ 61

Other rankings

#3187 in Developer Tools ▼ 2 #195 in tool keyword 53 ▼ 9

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Extension summary

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Originally intended for web designers who might want to test the contrast of their content by changing to grayscale, but this extension can really be used by anyone who for some reason want to remove the colors of a web page.

The grayscale persists between page loads, and the key shortcut to activate can be customized in the options.

User reviews

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Pros

Works well for some users
Allows customizing the shortcut
Neat tool for specific use cases

Cons

Doesn't work for many users
Shortcut keys often fail to activate
Needs to refresh tabs for it to work
Lacks a toggle from the icon

Most mentioned

Doesn't work
Shortcut doesn't activate
Requires refreshing tabs
Preference for storing on/off state per tab

Recent reviews

doesn't work

Jonathan Holden, 2024-06-18

Works well, I would prefer it to store on/off state per tab since I'll only need it for one or two tabs at a time but for my usage I only activate it briefly now and then so I don't need to worry much about opening/refreshing other tabs while its on. I'm using Alt+G as the shortcut as I already use Shift+G for something else.