Feature
Smart colour cycling across all eight Chrome tab-group colours
Eight Chrome group colours, assigned so two live groups rarely look alike.
How does 8-colour smart cycling work?
Direct answer
Chrome gives tab groups exactly eight colours. Flocci Tabs assigns them in two passes: first a domain hint (GitHub is purple, Amazon is yellow, Gmail is red), then a rotation that skips colours already in use nearby. The result is a tab strip you can read by colour before you read a single word.
What it does
- Fourteen domain hints ship out of the box, from github.com to notion.so.
- Rotation avoids repeating a colour that is already on screen.
- Every colour is a real Chrome tab-group colour, so groups look native, not bolted on.
- Editable — the options page lets you rewrite any rule, colour or keyword.
Under the hood
The palette is CONFIG.TAB_GROUPS.COLORS — blue, red, yellow, green, pink, purple, cyan, grey — with 14 hard-coded domain colour hints and blue as the fallback.
Flocci Tabs 1.3.3 · Manifest V3 service worker
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8-colour smart cycling — questions
Straight answers, no marketing detours.
Does 8-colour smart cycling need a Flocci account?
No. This runs entirely on your device and works the moment the extension is installed. No sign-in, no account, no network call.
Can I turn 8-colour smart cycling off?
Yes. Every behaviour is toggleable from the extension's options page, and rules, colours and keyword filters can be rewritten or exported as JSON for backup.
What exactly leaves my browser?
Nothing. This feature is local-only — it uses Chrome's tabs and tabGroups APIs on your machine and makes no network request at all.
Try 8-colour smart cycling yourself
Install once, then drag a tab out. That is the setup.
No account needed for automatic grouping. No API key, ever.