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[agantuk]

^ Only FF and Chrome as per the info next to the addon.

 

[Sushubh]

yeah. i tried on safari. it does not seem to show favicon at all.

 

[moindear]

@Admin the link is not working. The message is "Sorry, the website you were looking for is unavailable"

 

[Sushubh]

New in Labs: Unread message icon - Official Gmail Blog

 

[moindear]

love this feature...really cool

 

[agantuk]

Tried it on Chrome. Doesn't really serve my purpose even then. I was expecting the actual count, but it shows a distant approximation in my case. I had 1329 unread in my Inbox, and it shows just 100+. Definitely not worthwhile

 

[Sushubh]

it shows an actual count if you have few messages. anyhow i do not believe it has space to show more than 99 in the favicon.

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for 35 unread mails it is showing me 30. which is sort of sad i believe. i am not sure if they have created different favicons for all the digits. maybe they have created individual ones till 20 and then rest for 30,40,50,60,70,80,90?

 

[moindear]

In my case most of the mails are archived and labelled so the few which arrive in the inbox are displayed.

 

[amish]

Title bar OR tab title anyway shows the number, so favicon trick wud not be much necessary. it wud be just an amusement.

 

[agantuk]

^ Not really. As it stands today, the title bar first contains the folder/label name, and then the unread count. This makes the unread count visible only when the tab width is wide enough. Not during multi tab browsing sessions.

Something like this: