<![CDATA[How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity?]]>I love Opera and am willing to use it if only there's a glow on pinned tabs when I get new tweets on Twitter or similar. Is there a plugin or a setting I can change do allow this?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/6749/how-do-i-get-glowing-pinned-tabs-when-there-s-activityRSS for NodeSun, 15 Mar 2026 06:58:04 GMTFri, 28 Nov 2014 10:17:04 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 19 Dec 2014 04:21:57 GMT]]>@linuxmint7, I'm still looking for this "standard ability" in Opera 12. Is it bigger or smaller than a breadbox?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/61947https://forums.opera.com/post/61947Fri, 19 Dec 2014 04:21:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:24:16 GMT]]>Is there any chance that having Notifycon in the Opera store (nice work on that) will improve its performance? I love what the extension does but for me, there are problems. Specifically, I get pinned tab notifications perhaps 50 percent of the time. Notifycon just stops working for reasons I haven't been able to pin (get i??) down. I haven't heard anyone else complain of this, so it's likely a problem on my end.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/61747https://forums.opera.com/post/61747Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:24:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:06:51 GMT]]>Can someone tell me what this pinned tab "glow" is mentioned above? I'm using Opera 12 and have never seen this and don't know how to enable it either. It would be nice for my pinned Twitter tab.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/61742https://forums.opera.com/post/61742Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:06:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:05:19 GMT]]>Again... thank you for doing this. Sorry I wasn't more specific in my response above. 🙂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/61693https://forums.opera.com/post/61693Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:05:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:12:41 GMT]]>We reached out to the Notifycon developer and got it added to our store:

https://addons.opera.com/extensions/details/notifycon/

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/61679https://forums.opera.com/post/61679Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:12:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 23:10:33 GMT]]>

@leushino which one?

Probably Notifycon, again. 😃

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59728https://forums.opera.com/post/59728Fri, 28 Nov 2014 23:10:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:46:38 GMT]]>@leushino which one?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59709https://forums.opera.com/post/59709Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:46:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:38:05 GMT]]>Hey, that's a pretty cool extension. Thanks for the information.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59704https://forums.opera.com/post/59704Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:38:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:04:07 GMT]]>

I used Notifycon.

Thanks for letting us know. 🙂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59701https://forums.opera.com/post/59701Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:04:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:03:40 GMT]]>I used Notifycon. It does what I need it to do and well enough lol

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59689https://forums.opera.com/post/59689Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:03:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:59:13 GMT]]>I wonder which one he ended up using ?. :sherlock:

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59688https://forums.opera.com/post/59688Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:59:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:53:39 GMT]]>

It works with any website that adds (n) to the title. Gmail, Twitter and Facebook all do this.

1, it's syntactically ambiguous - though it's my fault that I'm getting accustomed to some people's wrong punctuation, so sorry.
2 - if it is already written as your tab's name, why in Tab's sake you're gonna need a feature? To do what? Send you an SMS?
<hr>

The other point you missed is that you cannot see (n) in small tabs—think pinned tabs (see screenshot above). This extension adds the number in red to the favicon, which is also more attention grabbing. Drawing your attention is a key point in an extension designed to notify you.

Oops, I started "analysing by parts", sorry.
Dismissed

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59685https://forums.opera.com/post/59685Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:53:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:30:26 GMT]]>:yes:

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59683https://forums.opera.com/post/59683Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:30:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:17:35 GMT]]>Wow, thanks a lot for the insanely fast responses. I did the things and it works beautifully. I can now completely shift to Opera knowing that the tab notifications work exactly how I want it to 😃

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59682https://forums.opera.com/post/59682Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:17:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:22:35 GMT]]>@linuxmint7 page monitor seems nice (I'm actually going to install it myself). I suspect this is probably what @imshady had in mind. Though perhaps Notifycon could also solve his use case.

Oh, I thought it was. I stand corrected.

No problem! 😃

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59680https://forums.opera.com/post/59680Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:22:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:21:22 GMT]]>

Why Facebook? [snip] … its title changes to include a parenthesised integer at its front

Hmm, did you read what I wrote? Here is one of the key bits again:

It works with any website that adds (n) to the title. Gmail, Twitter and Facebook all do this.

The other point you missed is that you cannot see (n) in small tabs—think pinned tabs (see screenshot above). This extension adds the number in red to the favicon, which is also more attention grabbing. Drawing your attention is a key point in an extension designed to notify you.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59679https://forums.opera.com/post/59679Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:21:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:02:56 GMT]]>

... and Facebook all do this.

Why Facebook? - it can do without that perfectly by itself in any browser I've used so far: its title changes to include a parenthesised integer at its front - like

"(1) Linux Mint"
🙂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59677https://forums.opera.com/post/59677Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:02:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:01:55 GMT]]>

Notifycon is not tied to a specific service.

Oh, I thought it was. I stand corrected. That will teach me to read and research more thoroughly next time. :doh:

Oh, and good bye stupid spammer. 😃

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59675https://forums.opera.com/post/59675Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:01:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:49:30 GMT]]>

I was thinking of a more generalised indicator/notifier than one specific to a single service, as the topic starter did say 'or similar'.

Notifycon is not tied to a specific service. It works with any website that adds (n) to the title. Gmail, Twitter and Facebook all do this. As do thousands of other sites.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59673https://forums.opera.com/post/59673Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:49:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:29:50 GMT]]>Oops!, I did miss your post, as it looks like we posted more or less at the same time. But I do see it now. 🙂

I was thinking of a more generalised indicator/notifier than one specific to a single service, as the topic starter did say 'or similar'.

Oh, on further looking, I did find this.

Page Monitor

But you will need to first install the extension @ruario mentioned in his first post in this thread, before installing the Page Monitor one.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59670https://forums.opera.com/post/59670Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:29:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:13:26 GMT]]>

…it probably wasn't there when he wrote the answer…

Fair point! 😉

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59665https://forums.opera.com/post/59665Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:13:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:12:06 GMT]]>

Did you miss my post?

Given that your posting times differ by one minute it probably wasn't there when he wrote the answer... :sherlock:

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59663https://forums.opera.com/post/59663Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:12:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:04:11 GMT]]>

This was a standard ability in Opera Presto (12.x and below) though not sure if it's possible to be added to Opera Blink either natively or via an extension.

Did you miss my post? Granted the Notifycon extension is not exactly the same as the Presto behaviour. It reads the title looking for (n)—where n is a number—and adds this as an image to the favicon (updating in real time). It may be good enough for @imshady since he specifically mentioned Twitter. Additionally you get the additional benefit of seeing the exact count.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59661https://forums.opera.com/post/59661Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:04:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity? on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 10:56:34 GMT]]>Not possible natively in Opera Blink as far as I've seen, and I've not found an extension on addons.opera.com or Chrome store to achieve this. This was a standard ability in Opera Presto (12.x and below) though not sure if it's possible to be added to Opera Blink either natively or via an extension.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59660https://forums.opera.com/post/59660Fri, 28 Nov 2014 10:56:34 GMT