You Colour my World Wide Web: ChromaTabs, a handy Firefox Addon

.Anyone who like me works on more than one version of the same site at the same time (at the risk of changing the wrong one accidentally, which has happened to me in the past) may appreciate ChromaTabs It assigns colours to tabs for different sites automatically.

The colour is assigned either based either on the server name (using some mysterious “random” algorithm) which seems to meet my needs, or colours in the favicon.ico, which is not so useful. The default colours are not very aesthetically pleasing but you can tweak them to some extent, and anyway, that’s not really the point.

Extra visual cues like this can help a lot especially when under time pressure and at greater risk of making errors. Simple, yet effective, like many of the best tools.