ColorZilla for Firefox Version History

Version 3.3

• New sampling modes (beyond point sample) - average 3x3, 5x5, 11x11, 25x25 pixels - new in v3
• Ability to sample average color of any selected area (can average images, noisy backgrounds etc.) - new in v3
• Allow sampling colors from local "file://" URLs
• Auto-start sampling immediately by default on Mac when main button clicked
• Allow sampling colors from images opened in a separate tab
• Better name for "Copy Special" menu to indicate various Copy options and formats
• Add "rgba" format to Copy Special options
• Keep the ColorZilla sampling panel consistent size even in zoomed views
• New setting to prevent document from being moved down when sampling
• Fixed support for Retina displays
• Fixed support for sampling in zoomed view
• Fixed persisting of add-on settings with certain browser configurations
• Fixed copying to clipboard from Copy Special menu
• Fixed hexa lowercase / uppercase option
• Many tweaks and bug fixes

Version 3.0

Due to new Firefox add-on developer requirements and restrictions requiring all future add-on development to be done using WebExtensions technologies, ColorZilla for Firefox has been re-written from the ground up to comply with the new requirements.

This new version retains all the functionality, but there might be minor UI/UX and other differences.

Version 2.8

• UI improvements
• Tweaks and bug fixes

Version 2.7

• All new status display panel
• Compatibility tweaks for latest versions of Firefox

Version 2.6

• Main ColorZilla icon now on top to better fit with newer Firefox versions
• Auto copy of sampled color to clipboard is now 'on' by default - use the 'Options' menu to further configure this setting
• v2.6.4 - Compatibility tweaks for Firefox 8 and 9, better support for moving the ColorZilla main button to the addon bar
• v2.6.5 - Compatibility tweaks for Firefox 13

Version 2.5

• Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
• Color Picker Dialog:
  • New Photoshop-like 'new/current' color split panel
  • New smooth color map and color slider controls (based on John Dyer's JS Color Picker)
  • 'Options' link to switch between the 'smooth' and 'discrete' color picker modes
  • Experimental Lab and CMYK color spaces support
  • New 'Eyedropper' button allows sampling document colors while working in Color Picker
  • Support for 'Escape' and 'Enter' keyboard shortcuts
• Eyedropper:
  • Limited Flash sampling support
  • Allow scrolling the document while color sampling
• Web Color Analyzer: better color palette sorting
• Firebug integration: fixed Firebug 'Inspect' panel opening for the last sampled element
• Restored Options > Hide menu item for hiding ColorZilla from the status bar
• Added ColorZilla to browser 'Tools' menu and App Button 'Developer' menu for easy access to main options and restoring ColorZilla if hidden from status bar
• Better support for localization (palette names are now localizable etc.)
• Latest Firefox 4 support
• Many tweaks and bug fixes

Version 2.2

• Support for HSL color CSS3 attributes
• Easier access to the main menu for copying sampled colors and more options
• Firefox 4 compatibility
• Support for 64 bit Linux (Ubuntu and others)
• Minor bug fixes and UI tweaks

Version 2

• ColorZilla v2.0.2 - Firefox 3.1 compatibility, bug fixes
• Webpage DOM Color Analyzer
  • Analyze DOM element colors on any Web page and create a corresponding palette
  • Locate elements on the page that correspond to a given color
  • Find out what CSS rules specify a given color
  • Save, bookmark and share the palettes
• Online Palette Viewer
  • Click here for an example
  • Allows viewing, bookmarking and sharing any color palette
  • Provides a permalink URL that represents any set of colors
  • Online Eyedropper shows colors in RGB, HSV and additional formats
• Firefox 3 support
• Use Full Page Zoom introduced in Firefox 3
• Firebug support - allows opening the selected element in Firebug
• New languages - Indonesian, Korean, Norwegian. Thanks to the BabelZilla team!
• Ubuntu support (gcc4 based build included)
• Minor tweaks and bug fixes

Version 1.0

• Intel Mac support
• Firefox 2 support
• International - 24 translations are included
• New Catalan, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian and Chinese translations - thanks to the BabelZilla team!
• New '%dom-path-reversed%' status bar field
• Option to copy the last ColorZilla formatted status value to the clipboard
• Minor tweaks and bug fixes

Version 0.8.3

• Compatible with Firefox 1.5 Beta 1
• Addded %url-full%, %url-path% and %url-file% status bar fields (useful for frames)
• Added RGB percentage status bar field
• Added 'Export palette' option to palette manager
• Minor bug fixes

Version 0.8.2

• "DOM path to current element" status bar display option.
• New "Statusbar Format" dialog for easy switching between various formats.
• An option to show the hex color codes in lowercase.
• Improved installation - no additional restart is needed on Mac/Linux (thanks to Jochen for the tip).

Version 0.8.1

• Palettes
  • Reads and writes GIMP compatible palettes.
  • Default palettes: Web Named Colors, Web Safe Colors, Web Safe Colors by Hue, System CSS Colors, W3C Named Colors, X Named Colors, Hues and Brightnesses, Hues and Saturations.
  • More palettes on the ColorZilla Palettes page and anywhere on the Internet.
  • New palettes added to the palettes folder are automatically detected.
  • Palettes can be viewed as thumbnails or as a sortable list of colors.
  • Sort the palette color list by color index, brightness or color name.
  • History, Favorites and other user-created palettes can be edited and saved under another name.
  • Custom palette views - number of columns can be set in the palette file (GIMP compatible).
  • System CSS Colors palette - a special dynamic palette. CSS standard color names like ActiveBorder, ButtonShadow etc. reflect the colors of the various UI elements of the user system.
• Favorites palette - add your favorite colors to this palette, either from the main menu or from the Color Picker dialog. When adding from the ColorPicker dialog, you can give the new color a custom name.
• History palette - all the sampled colors are added automatically, the name of the color is the element that the color was sampled from.
• Sample multiple colors - sample colors by clicking while holding the "shift" key. The sampling won't stop and the sampleded colors will be added to the history palette.
• Auto-copy - choose the desired color format (rgb, hex etc.) and the sampled color value will be automatically copied to the clipboard.
• Customizable status bar format.
  When hovering, the status bar can optionally display the following information:
  • rgb color value
  • hsv color value
  • hex color value
  • hovered element tag, class and id
  • distance from the previous point
  • mouse position relative to the element
  • css calculated size of the hovered element
  • box object size of the hovered element
• Outline hovered elements.
• Page Pan option allows to quickly pan the page without using the scroll bars. Just press Alt+Shift and drag the page to pan.
• Added a ColorZilla entry to the page context menu.

Tweaks and bug fixes

• Changed the hex color values (#ffffff) to uppercase (#FFFFFF).
• Various optimizations for making the ColorPicker faster.
• Changed the default picker palette size to 16x16 to make the ColorPicker faster and more responsive. The default can be changed through the options menu.
• Minor Color Picker bug fixes.

Version 0.6.5

• Measure distances - the status bar will show the distance between the current and the last sampled points.
• Firefox 1.0 compatibility.

Version 0.6.3

• Click on the ColorZilla icon to start the Eyedropper.
• Click on the target pixel to get a color reading.
• Improved Zoom function.
• Launch the DOM Inspector with the selected element.
• Improved the crosshair cursor behavior.

Version 0.6

• Implemented Eyedropper modules for Linux and MacOSX.
• A new "Zoom" option that allows to zoom in to easily pick a color or zoom out to see a bigger part of the page on-screen.
• Added a "Copy" menu item for Hex color value without the "#" prefix (for pasting into Photoshop etc.).
• The cursor will change to crosshair when sampling colors with the eyedropper (can be disabled).
• The default shortcut key changed to Shift+Escape.
• Added an Eyedropper Help dialog to get you started using the eyedropper.

Version 0.5.1

• The eyedropper shortcut key can now be changed.

Version 0.5

• First public release of ColorZilla