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    How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity?

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    • ruario
      ruario last edited by

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

      Fair point! 😉

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      • linuxmint7
        linuxmint7 last edited by

        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.

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        • ruario
          ruario last edited by

          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.

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          • linuxmint7
            linuxmint7 last edited by

            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. 😃

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              ... 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"
              🙂

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              • ruario
                ruario last edited by

                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.

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                • ruario
                  ruario last edited by

                  @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! 😃

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                  • imshady
                    imshady last edited by

                    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 😃

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                    • ruario
                      ruario last edited by

                      :yes:

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        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

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                        • linuxmint7
                          linuxmint7 last edited by

                          I wonder which one he ended up using ?. :sherlock:

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                          • imshady
                            imshady last edited by

                            I used Notifycon. It does what I need it to do and well enough lol

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                            • linuxmint7
                              linuxmint7 last edited by

                              I used Notifycon.

                              Thanks for letting us know. 🙂

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                              • Deleted User
                                Deleted User last edited by

                                Hey, that's a pretty cool extension. Thanks for the information.

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                                • ruario
                                  ruario last edited by

                                  @leushino which one?

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                                  • linuxmint7
                                    linuxmint7 last edited by

                                    @leushino which one?

                                    Probably Notifycon, again. 😃

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                                    • ruario
                                      ruario last edited by

                                      We reached out to the Notifycon developer and got it added to our store:

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

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                                      • Deleted User
                                        Deleted User last edited by

                                        Again... thank you for doing this. Sorry I wasn't more specific in my response above. 🙂

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                                        • rseiler
                                          rseiler last edited by

                                          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.

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                                          • A Former User
                                            A Former User last edited by

                                            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.

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