Color Changer

Name: Color Changer
Rating: 4.1111 (45 reviews)
Author: webextdev

Change a page's text, background, and link colors to your liking.

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Color Changer is a Chrome extension designed to enhance web readability by allowing users to customize the text, background, and link colors of any webpage. It provides an intuitive color wheel interface where users can select customized hues to make content easier on the eyes. The extension remembers changes per site for convenience, and users can reset settings anytime.

While it's not intended as a global web theme, Color Changer works well on most sites to improve clarity and comfort when browsing. It also features a simple activation procedure and supports color changes via a right-click context menu. The extension prioritizes user privacy and does not use Google Analytics.

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Daily users:

Rating:

Version:

4.0.9 Last updated: 2023-08-15

Version code:

5609012

Creation date:

2018-12-31

Risk:

Permissions:

storage
tabs
activeTab
contextMenus
<all_urls>

Size:

58.32KB

Email:

we*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 3,267 ▲ 21

Other rankings

#316 in Tabs ▲ 1

#3 in change color keyword 14

#9 in changelog keyword 19 ▲ 1

#16 in color keyword 72 ▼ 1

#18 in exchange keyword 18

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Color Changer (v4.0.9)

8,000 4.07

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User reviews

Users appreciate Color Changer for its simplicity and effectiveness in improving readability by adjusting hard-to-read website colors, especially restoring light mode on dark-themed sites. It is praised for being lightweight and easy to use. However, it has usability limitations such as affecting all colors simultaneously without selective control, broken handling of graphics and gradients, inaccessible settings UI portions, and lack of developer support channels. These issues occasionally cause frustration and functional loss after updates.

Pros

Allows users to quickly and easily adjust website text and background colors to improve readability.
Effectively changes difficult or harsh color themes to more comfortable ones for reading, reducing eye strain.
Lightweight and easy to use compared to other similar tools like Midnight Lizard.
Enables customization of background color (including sepia and green tints) for better reading experience on various sites.
Restores traditional light mode (black text on white or light backgrounds) for websites using mandatory dark modes.

Cons

Limited customization options; users cannot change only text or background color independently without affecting other elements like link colors.
The add-on sometimes breaks website graphics, such as gradients, charts, or icons, by altering colors in unintended ways.
The control panel interface is problematic, with parts of settings inaccessible or clipped, making full customization difficult or impossible.
No apparent way to contact the developer for support or to report issues.
Some users experienced problems with updates causing loss of functionality or usability issues in the management interface.

Recent reviews

by ei*****, 2025-06-22

by 全民*****, 2025-04-07

This is a great little add-on that just simply and quickly lets you adjust hard-to-read themes to a readable text and background. Thank you!

by Fi*****, 2025-03-24

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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Color Changer requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

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Color Changer has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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