Desaturate Favicons

SUMMARY

Favicons—originally “favorites icons”—are the small icons that appear next to the page title inside a tab in Google Chrome. Many companies choose to utilize this icon as a way to show off their logo or brand. As such, they’re often colorful and bold. In an effort to provide a more minimalist, distraction-free, browsing experience, this extension desaturates the tab icons for all but the active tab. In other words, all of the background tabs will appear in grayscale (“black and white”). When you switch which tab you’re viewing, the tab you were just viewing will see its icon switch to grayscale, and the new one you’re viewing will go back to full color. The extension has no settings. There’s nothing to do. Just install it and it’ll start working right away. If you ever want the full color of icons to return, simply uninstall the extension.

The latest version of Desaturate Favicons is available on the Chrome web and is currently being used by 1,000 active users. The initial version was launched on 2014-04-15.

HOW TO INSTALL Desaturate Favicons FROM A CRX FILE

1. Download Desaturate Favicons CRX file
2. NOTE: Sometimes the browser may block downloading / installing CRX file from outside the Chrome Web Store. If so, you may need to download the ZIP file instead
3. In the URL bar, go to chrome://extensions
4. Enable Developer mode

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