Show a flashing alert icon when an unfocused tab's title changes.

Latest Version

Version
1.3.2
Update
June 7, 2021
Size
17.55KiB
Developer
Category
Users
288
Rating
4.18182 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (United States)
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Permissions
Tabs
Storage
Https://*/*
Http://*/*
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Blue Dot Replacement Extension

Older versions of Chrome would display a dot next to the icon of recently updated tabs, which many users found extremely helpful for web applications like Slack, Mattermost, etc. Unfortunately, this feature has since been dropped from Chrome.

This extension is MIT licensed and open-source (see https://github.com/willg101/blue-dot-replacement)

Privacy Policy: [a](https://github.com/willg101/blue-dot-replacement/blob/1.3.0/PRIVACY%20POLICY.md)

New in version 1.3.0 (2018-10-26): Added a privacy policy (thanks to Github user @fngdenco, who suggested this!)
New in version 1.2.0 (2018-10-08): Added an option to disable the flashing icon for those who find it distracting (thanks to Github user @ferdnyc, who implemented this!)
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx","manifest_version": 2,"name": "Blue Dot Replacement","description": "Show a flashing alert icon when an unfocused tab's title changes.","version": "1.3.2","author": "Will Groenendyk","options_ui": {"chrome_style": true,"page": "options.html","open_in_tab": false},"background": {"persistent": false,"scripts": [ "bg.js" ]},"icons": {"16": "img/icon16.png","32": "img/icon32.png","128": "img/icon128.png"},"web_accessible_resources" : [ "img/alarm.png" ],"short_name" : "BDR","permissions": ["tabs","storage","https://*/*","http://*/*"]}
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User reviews

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Yu Cho (ID: 0000007625f2ad13) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 06/05/2021 Hi After Chrome is update to version 91.0.4472.77, this great extension can not work anymore, because Chrome changed the tab name showing method, Sad!!

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J Yen (ID: 000000707c64a315) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/26/2020 Works as stated, even after all those version updates.

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Jeremy Rice (ID: 00000036e064d187) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 11/20/2020 I am happy to be able to tell when my pinned tabbed have notifications that require my attention. Thanks. ...But I *really* wish it didn't also flash on the bookmarks bar. A) it seems to do this when there aren't actually any notifications for the given page (this seems like a bug), and B) I habitually click on those icons, which mucks up which page my pinned tabs are actually on, interrupting my workflow. :S I imagine this is NOT something the dev can fix, due to the nature of how icons are implemented with Chrome... but... man. It definitely makes this less valuable for me. I ended up turning off my bookmarks bar, which is a drag. :|

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Allen Wilson (ID: 00000040eaa28edd) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/09/2019 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!!!

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(ID: ) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 01/23/2019 I've added an animated gif and it seems to work in the Options preview, but not on the live tabs on chrome. Any suggestions on making that work?