United States- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ActiveTab makes it easier to spot the active tab in Safari on Mac by drawing a line below it. It works by predicting the position of the active tab based on the size of your browser window and the number of tabs. "The extension [...] undeniably makes it easier to spot the active tab in Safari." - MacStories "It's worth every penny." - iMore "ActiveTab simply makes it easier to spot the active tab in Safari." - MacRumors "It makes the tab instantly recognizable, even when you’re not looking directly at it" - Cult of Mac "It solves the problem of creating enough visual contrast between active and inactive tabs" - iDownloadBlog Caveats: • It only works with “Separate Tab Bar”. • It works best if you hide the Favorites Bar and turn off “Show Color in Tab Bar.” • It will not work reliably if you have so many tabs in a window that the tab bar becomes scrollable. • It also won’t work if you change the zoom level of web pages. The "can read and alter webpages" text in the permission section is just unfortunate wording. ActiveTab needs access to the web page to draw the line below tabs. It's not doing anything creepy!
DOES NOT WORK SAFARI VERSIONS 16 and beyond
My fault for not reading the description, AND probably costing others money too. Maybe this rating will help you avoid wasting $1.99
United StatesThis extension does not work for me
It does not highlight the active tab when switching between tabs. I would like to request money back due to the fact that this extension does not work. Thank you.
United StatesiPad Pro
Works great on my iPad Pro. No more trying to spot the little gray x to figure witch tab is open. Thanks
United StatesWorks great with Safari 15.1
Works as advertised ... another life annoyance solved for only $2. I have all my websites zoomed to 115% and the highlighting still tells me which tab is the active one. I also really like the "Improve visibility" option, so for example I can see the blue line on a site with a black background and the black line on a site with a blue background! Wonderful.
United StatesHelpful
Underline is a quick way to see where I am.
United StatesNeeds Work
Out of alignment with the tabs
United StatesGreat idea - just needs some more iteration!
Works and very happy to have this as an option, but the alignment seems to be off when used with Safari with Pinned Tabs along with Regular Tabs. Would also be great if it had some ability to switch display color based on the tab color theme. For example, a dark color works well for light colored tabs, but is much harder to see on a dark colored tab.
United States
The new tab page now has a black background in dark mode.
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