diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
index 9e8b7b9..b22e919 100644
--- a/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ use {
 };
 
 // These three strings should be kept in sync:
-pub(crate) const CHOOSER_DEFAULT: &str = "fzf --multi --preview 'just --show {}'";
+pub(crate) const CHOOSER_DEFAULT: &str =
+  "fzf --multi --preview 'just --unstable --color always --show {}'";
 pub(crate) const CHOOSER_ENVIRONMENT_KEY: &str = "JUST_CHOOSER";
 pub(crate) const CHOOSE_HELP: &str = "Select one or more recipes to run using a binary. If \
                                       `--chooser` is not passed the chooser defaults to the value \
diff --git a/tests/choose.rs b/tests/choose.rs
index ff22425..940fab0 100644
--- a/tests/choose.rs
+++ b/tests/choose.rs
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ fn invoke_error_function() {
       ",
     )
     .stderr_regex(
-      r"error: Chooser `/ -cu fzf --multi --preview 'just --show \{\}'` invocation failed: .*\n",
+      r"error: Chooser `/ -cu fzf --multi --preview 'just --unstable --color always --show \{\}'` invocation failed: .*\n",
     )
     .status(EXIT_FAILURE)
     .shell(false)