How do I get glowing pinned tabs when there's activity?
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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.
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 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. -
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 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 last edited by
Why Facebook? [snip] โฆ 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 tabsโthink 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. -
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 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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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 tabsโthink 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.
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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 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 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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rseiler last edited by
@linuxmint7, I'm still looking for this "standard ability" in Opera 12. Is it bigger or smaller than a breadbox?