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One tab stands out.
The rest fade away.

TabTint marks your active tab with a colored favicon accent and quietly dims the rest. Slide the dim and title-shorten controls until your tab strip feels like yours.

Add to Chrome — Free Works with Chrome 114+. ~28 KB.
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Active tab

Four ways to make your active tab obvious.

Pick the favicon treatment that fits your taste. The original site favicon stays visible for three of the four.

Replace

Solid colored dot replaces the site favicon. Maximum contrast.

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Corner dot

Original site favicon plus a small colored dot at the bottom-right. Default.

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Ring

Colored ring around the site favicon. Bold but keeps the site glyph.

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Side bar

A colored vertical stripe on the left. Asymmetric accent, site glyph intact.

Color

Nine presets or any hex you want.

Pick a preset to match your workflow, or hit the rainbow + chip and pipe in a specific hex.

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Hex stored locally with your other settings. Never sent anywhere.

Inactive tabs

Two sliders. As loud or as quiet as you want.

A favicon-dim slider and a title-shorten slider. Dial them in independently from 0 to 100.

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Dim 0% · Title 0%

Leave it loud

No dimming. Use the active marker alone if you prefer a busy tab bar.

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Dim 50% · Title 40%

A little hush

Favicons desaturate, titles trim. You can still scan the strip if you need to.

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Dim 100% · Title 100%

Monastic focus

Inactive favicons nearly gone, titles collapse to ·. One tab remains.

Privacy by design

Nothing leaves your browser.

No analytics. No account. No server. Your settings live in Chrome's local storage on your device. TabTint never reads the content of your pages — only the favicon and the title.

Install

Three steps. Under a minute.

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Add it to Chrome

One click in the Web Store. TabTint asks for the minimum permissions it needs — nothing more.

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Click the icon, flip the toggle

Sensible defaults out of the box. Red corner-dot marker, inactive favicons at 50%, titles collapsed to ·.

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Tune to taste

Pick a different color, try a different style, slide the dim anywhere. Changes apply instantly, no reload needed.

Ready to make the active tab obvious?

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