
Adaptive Tab Bar Colour by Eason
Changes the colour of Firefox theme to match the website’s appearance.
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What Does the Add-on Do?
While you browse the web, this add-on changes the theme of Firefox to match the appearance of the website you are viewing — just like how macOS Safari tints its tab bar.
Works Well With:
Incompatible With:
If You’re Using a CSS Theme:
A CSS theme can work with ATBC (Adaptive Tab Bar Colour) when system colour variables are used (e.g.
If You’re Using Linux with a GTK Theme:
Firefox’s titlebar buttons may revert to the Windows style. To prevent this, open Advanced Preferences (
Safety Reminder:
Beware of malicious web UIs: Please distinguish between the browser’s UI and the web UI. See The Line of Death. (Thanks to u/KazaHesto)
Feel free to star this project on GitHub: https://github.com/easonwong-de/Adaptive-Tab-Bar-Colour
While you browse the web, this add-on changes the theme of Firefox to match the appearance of the website you are viewing — just like how macOS Safari tints its tab bar.
Works Well With:
Incompatible With:
- Firefox versions older than 112.0 (released in April 2023)
- Adaptive Theme Creator
- Chameleon Dynamic Theme
- VivaldiFox
- Envify
- and any other add-on that changes the Firefox theme
If You’re Using a CSS Theme:
A CSS theme can work with ATBC (Adaptive Tab Bar Colour) when system colour variables are used (e.g.
--lwt-accent-color
for tab bar colour). This is an example of an ATBC-compatible CSS theme.If You’re Using Linux with a GTK Theme:
Firefox’s titlebar buttons may revert to the Windows style. To prevent this, open Advanced Preferences (
about:config
) and set widget.gtk.non-native-titlebar-buttons.enabled
to false
. (Thanks to @anselstetter)Safety Reminder:
Beware of malicious web UIs: Please distinguish between the browser’s UI and the web UI. See The Line of Death. (Thanks to u/KazaHesto)
Feel free to star this project on GitHub: https://github.com/easonwong-de/Adaptive-Tab-Bar-Colour
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This add-on needs to:
- Read and modify browser settings
- Monitor extension usage and manage themes
- Access browser tabs
- Access your data for all web sites
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- Version
- 2.4
- Size
- 69.58 kB
- Last updated
- 24 days ago (31 Mar 2025)
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- MIT Licence
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Release notes for 2.4
- Added options to import, export, and reset settings
- Added indicator for colour adjustment in the popup
- Updated UI texts and localisations (thanks to @Estrella-Explore, @Neikon)
- Added support for Firefox’s restricted pages
- Improved colour picking method and added detection for element opacity
- Added support for JSON viewers and updated colours for <code>about:</code> pages
- Browser accent colour is now used for the URL bar outline when focused
- Changed the default value of minimum contrast ratio in light mode to 9.0
- Fixed: policies piling up when repeatedly clicking the “Ignore / Use theme colour” button in the popup
- Fixed: settings corrupt when changing settings too quickly (e.g., dragging the colour picker)
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