Top 3 Ways to Change Tab Color in Chrome

Tabs are an essential part of Google Chrome. We can often deny their importance, but without the easy means to control and manage the tabs, our online life would have been so difficult. We use them daily and sometimes their appearance can get boring. So why not change the appearance of the Chrome tabs according to our preferences? Yes, you can add color to Chrome tabs. We will show you how to change the color of the tab bar in the Chrome browser.

Customizing tabs in Chrome makes it easy to identify tabs, organize them, and increase the visibility of the active tab. There are three ways to change the color of tabs in Chrome. While the first two use Chrome themes help, the latter uses tab groups.

Here’s our guide to three ways to change the color of tabs in Chrome.

1. Use Chrome themes to change the color of the tabs

Themes help you customize the look of Chrome to your liking. When you change the Chrome theme, the color of the Chrome toolbar or the top bar will change. This includes the color of your tabs, the search bar (address bar) and the bookmarks bar (if active). Changing themes will also affect the appearance of the new tab page in Chrome.

When multiple tabs are open, identifying the active tab becomes difficult. The default Chrome colors don’t help much because the color difference is negligible. This is where themes can help. Applying a different Chrome theme allows you to change the color of the active tab.

Note: Chrome themes sync across your connected devices. Know what else can sync in Chrome.

Here are the steps to change your Chrome theme:

Step 1: Launch Chrome and click the three-dot icon at the top. Choose Settings from the menu.

2nd step: In Settings, scroll down to the Appearance section. Click Themes.

Step 3: The browser will take you to the Chrome theme online store. Google offers several cool themes of its own. You will find them at the beginning of the theme shop. But if you don’t like their collection, you can choose a different theme by scrolling down. Click on the theme you want to activate.

Step 4: On the theme page, click Add to Chrome.

Wait for Chrome to install the theme. Once the theme is installed and activated, the color of your tabs will change.

3. Change the color of the tabs using the tab groups

Adding a colorful accent is another elegant way to distinguish your tabs. You will see a colored line under your tabs. If you were looking to organize tabs by changing their color, this method which uses tab groups would be useful.

Recently introduced by Google, tab groups help you group tabs according to their nature, use, priority, etc. Grouping must be done manually by the user. You can assign a color to the tabs of the same group. So different groups can have different colors.

To create a group of tabs, right-click the tab in the top bar. Choose Add to new group.

A gray dot will appear on the left side of the tab. Click it to name the tab group and assign a color.

To add tabs to an existing group, drag them to the group, or right-click them and choose Add to existing group. Similarly, to remove a tab from a group, drag it out of it or choose Remove from group by right-clicking on it.