Prettier highlights, or color pickers
Make highlights (unread tabs, current tab & protected tabs) prettier, for example unread tabs could simply be bold (as long as the current tab is kept distinct). Alternatively, add color pickers to people can customize this.
AdminJomel
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Arsen Bandurian commented
Yes, more highlighting options is a must. For example, I use Chromifox, which means color highlighting looks mega-ugly. Had to go to TreeStyleTab+TMP. With use rich and clearly visible bold for active tab, and italis for unread tabs. With Tab Kit i get default italics that are hard to see and hothing for the current tab.
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Isaac Fig Newton
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+1 for data URI
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uglycoyote
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Yeah, I always thought that the colour/highlighting of the unread and current tabs seemed backwards... Like you should have done it the other way around. I wonder if there's some way that you can make it more visually obvious which is which. e.g., if you put a little "NEW" starburst icon on the tabs that hadn't been read yet, that would be more obvious.
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Pure LOVE club
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BOTH lightweight and total user-control are prized... so avoid silliness like comparing tab coloring to active theme. (I, however, do not endorse theme-ing / skinning. I prefer reliability, performance, and zero gheyness)
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Pure LOVE club
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some current tab prettification options: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8004/
.... while you're at it, awesome developer guy, an option for other-than single colors: gradients or small data URI PNGs ( < 4kB). Perhaps tie in the latter to a stylish style or borrow the concept. data URIs are much preferable and easily portable.
Alternate projects to pilfer:
ColorfulTabs
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1368/FabTabs (less preferable)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12956/
