Org Colors

Production and a sandbox look identical in a row of browser tabs, right up until the moment they don’t. Org Colors makes them tell themselves apart, using two surfaces that share one color so they can never disagree:

1. Color the browser tab icon — Tints the Salesforce icon in your browser tab so you can tell orgs apart at a glance.
2. Show a banner on the page — A colored bar across the top of every Salesforce page, in the same color as the tab icon.

You can turn either one on by itself, or both together.

How the Color Is Chosen

SF Tabs decides which color to use in two steps:

1. Environment defaults. Every org gets a default color based on its environment. SF Tabs recognizes seven environments:

   Environment
   Production
   Sandbox
   Developer (Developer Edition)
   Patch
   Scratch
   Demo
   Trailhead Playground

Production and Sandbox are always enabled. If you need any of the the other org types, use the dropdown to add them.

1. Per-org overrides. An entry for a specific org overrides the environment default for that org alone.

Per-org entries exist because the hostname alone can’t tell two sandboxes of the same org apart — several sandboxes all look like acme--name.sandbox. A per-org override is the only way to give each one its own color. There’s a button to capture the org you’re currently on, so you don’t have to type its identifier by hand.

Editing Environment Defaults

Environment defaults can be edited to whatever colors you prefer, and reset back to the shipped defaults at any time.

The Banner

Turning on Show a banner on the page adds a colored bar across the top of every Salesforce page. It sits inside the Salesforce header, above the page content — it moves the page down rather than covering it.

Include the Org Name

By default, the banner shows just the environment, such as “SANDBOX.” Turning on Include the org name shows something like “ACME–DEV1 · SANDBOX” instead — useful once you’re working across several sandboxes of the same org and “SANDBOX” alone doesn’t tell them apart.

Banner Location

The banner also takes a location choice, the same one used by the floating button:

• Everywhere
• Only in Setup
• Outside Setup

Where It Works

Org Colors works on every Salesforce host the extension runs on, including Experience Cloud and Experience Builder pages.

Migrating from Another Extension

If you installed a separate extension purely to color your orgs, you no longer need it — Org Colors covers the tab icon and the page banner in one place.

See Settings for where these options live, and Quick Access for the floating button’s shared location setting.