ColorZilla is an extension for Mozilla Firefox and the Mozilla Suite. It assists web developers and graphic designers with color related both basic and advanced tasks.
With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily.
ColorZilla Main Features
- Eyedropper – get the color of any pixel in the browser window.
- An advanced Color Picker similar to ones that can be found in Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro.
- Zoom option makes picking colors easier.
- Palette Viewer and editor. Palettes fully compatible with GIMP.
- Webpage DOM Color Analyzer analyzes DOM element colors on any Web page.
- Online Palette Viewer allows viewing, bookmarking and sharing any color palette online.
- History and Favorites palettes.
- Page Pan option allows to quickly pan the page without using the scroll bars.
- Displays element information like tag name, class, id, size, relative mouse position etc.
- Outline elements under the cursor.
- Multi-platform – works on MS Windows, Linux and MacOSX.
- Manipulate colors by their Red/Green/Blue or Hue/Saturations/Value components.
- Auto copy the generated or sampled colors in CSS RGB, Hex and other formats.
- Launch the DOM Inspector or Firebug (if present) with the last selected element.
- Measure the distance between any two points in the browser window.
- Get the color of dynamic elements.
- Customize the Color Picker resolution to give the best performance vs color precision.
- Can be hidden when not in use.