# HashColouredTabs+
**URL:** https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844
**Category:** Add-ons
**Created:** [January 14, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844 "2021-01-14T16:40:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@sch](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/sch)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844/1 "2021-01-14T16:40:01Z")
Hallö.
Bei den neuen Thunderbird-Updates vermisse ich schmerzlich die sehr praktischen farbigen Tabs (HashColouredTabs+), die ich mir als AddOn installiert hatte - jetzt aber nicht mehr unterstützt werden. Weiß jemand was darüber - ob dieses AddOn nochmal wieder kommt - oder ob es eine Alternative gibt, um ganze Zeilen in der EMailÜbersicht farbig darstellen zu können, dann hab ich einfach schneller ne Mail gefunden.
sch.
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### Author:  [@DaveRo](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/DaveRo)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2021, 8:09am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844/2 "2021-01-15T08:09:23Z")
There was a Firefox addon called HashColouredTabs+ but it was years ago.
You can colour emails using tags, you can add more tags, and you can set tags with filters. So, for example, an email from a specific address could be coloured green.
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### Author:  [@sch](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/sch)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2021, 9:02am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844/3 "2021-01-15T09:02:12Z")
Thank you Dave!
For me was “HashColouredTabs+” the very best, because the whole line of characters you could make in colour. That means the “characters” are black and the line was filled with colour. Great.
A little tag is not the same. But which tags do you mean? The little “stars” or another addon?
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### Author:  [@DaveRo](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/DaveRo)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2021, 9:46am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844/4 "2021-01-15T09:46:56Z")
I’m puzzled. HashColouredTabs+ seems to have been for Firefox not Thunderbird. But this is Thunderbird group, and your OP mentions mail. Did you use it in SeaMonkey? Did it colour emails too?
> **[HashColouredTabs+](https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/seamonkey/addon/hashcolouredtabs-4279/)**
>
> Improves tab identification by providing a small colored icon for any site which doesn't have its own 'site icon'.
> ★ 'favicon' now also shown in history and bookmarks ★
Here’s a description of tags.
> **[Message Tags - Categorize your email in Thunderbird | Thunderbird Help](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/message-tags)**
>
> Message tags let you organize your email messages by categories. Learn how to use them.
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### Author:  [@sch](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/sch)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2021, 11:13am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844/5 "2021-01-15T11:13:46Z")
Dear Dave,
this was a missunderstanding because I gave you not the right name of the addon I meant. So sorry! And my english words are difficult.
You are right with the “message tags”, these are already existent in my window, but after the TBupdates one important option is not anymore possible!
Before you could the whole line of characters make in colour. That means the “characters” are black and **the line was filled with colour**.
And now the lines will loose the colour when you go further. Only the characters stay coloured! Though very thin! The readability is then difficult.
I hope I could explain.
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### Author:  [@DaveRo](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/DaveRo)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844/6 "2021-01-15T12:22:48Z")
You can post in German - I can use Herr Google to translate. Or possibly German with an English translation below.
I don’t think standard tags ever had background colours. So I assume you were using an addon that no longer works.
Here is a similar question:
[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1270814](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1270814)
There is a German version of that support group
[https://support.mozilla.org/de/products/thunderbird](https://support.mozilla.org/de/products/thunderbird)
Reading that question, it seems that it was possible to use userChrome.css (a somewhat technical method - google it) to colour tags in TB68. I don’t know whether it works in TB78.
A better place to ask about userChrome.css solutions is
[http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=39](http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=39)
(English only, I think)
Do you know what addon you had that stopped working?
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### Author:  [@sfhowes](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/sfhowes)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2021, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844/7 "2021-01-15T19:04:35Z")
The userChrome method described in the support.mozilla topic works in 78, but a simpler way to achieve colored tag backgrounds is with [Tag Toolbar](https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/tag-toolbar/).
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### Author:  [@sch](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/sch)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844/8 "2021-01-16T16:51:21Z")
I don´t understand?
Do you read the Whole conversation?
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### Author:  [@sch](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/sch)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844/9 "2021-01-16T16:55:34Z")
Dear Dave, thank you for searching for me! It takes time til I see all… But on one of your Links I found this:
> **[Thread coloring and tagging in message header view (Tag Popup 2.0.2)](https://hogiblog.blogspot.com/2020/06/thread-coloring-and-tagging-in-message.html)**
>
> Tag Popup 2.0.2 is available. The followings are newly implemented in this version: Coloring of thread pane Tagging in message header view D...
Below: **Coloring of thread pane** This is what I need
I try to translate but I think I coudn´t understand this technical things.
Thank you much
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### Author:  [@sch](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/sch)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2021, 5:05pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844/10 "2021-01-16T17:05:31Z")
And this I found on an other site:
# Make Thunderbird’s Labels Stand Out
> **[Make Thunderbird's Labels Stand Out | TwisterMc](https://www.twistermc.com/1143/thunderbird-labels/)**
>
> I'm a big fan of Thunderbrid, however one of the things that bugs me is that the labels don't stand out enough. I feel as if they kind of blend into the
- [GENERAL](https://www.twistermc.com/category/general/) / [SOFTWARE](https://www.twistermc.com/category/software/) / [THUNDERBIRD](https://www.twistermc.com/category/thunderbird/)
- 10 APR, 2007
> **[Make Thunderbird's Labels Stand Out | TwisterMc](https://www.twistermc.com/1143/thunderbird-labels/)**
>
> I'm a big fan of Thunderbrid, however one of the things that bugs me is that the labels don't stand out enough. I feel as if they kind of blend into the
What does it mean?
I guess I can not have this tool, or?
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### Author:  [@DaveRo](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/DaveRo)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844/11 "2021-01-16T17:35:42Z")
Try the ‘Tag Toolbar’ addon that sfhowes posted a link to.
The author is the same is the ‘hogiblog’ addon.
The TwisterMc addon is from 2007! Forget that.
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### Author:  [@sch](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/sch)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844/12 "2021-01-16T20:57:08Z")
Thank you very much!
I´ll 💚do
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### Author:  [@sch](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/sch)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844/13 "2021-01-16T20:58:26Z")
Thank you too 🦉 🦉
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### Author:  [@sch](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/sch)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/hashcolouredtabs/73844/14 "2021-01-16T21:22:11Z")
I am very relieved. It’s worked out! Thank you again!
LG sch\_