CTT is by itself completely useless extension for Firefox. CTT registers a content_script to be run on every web-page which does these three things:
To make this actually doo something you would apply the CSS from colorize_tab_from_prefix.css by using userChrome.css
After restarting Firefox the tabs should get colorized by some color that the extension extracted from the page. That extracted color may or may not be what you expected though - this is just a proof-of-concept and heuristics are super simple.