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Making unread tabs obvious in Firefox
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20 Dec 2004Update: as requested: Unread Tabs extension
Saw this tip over at the MozillaZine Knowledge Base:
Change the style of tab markers.
Adding those CSS rules to your userChrome.css file will italicize the titles of tabs that you haven’t read.
Very useful for keeping track of what you’ve read and what you haven’t (also helps prevent you from accidentally closing an unread tab).
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16 Responses to Making unread tabs obvious in Firefox
Jacob Riis
December 20th, 2004 at 12am
It’s agreat idea. But if we could get an extension for this it would be even better. I don’t want to mess around config files to get things done. I would imagine the average user feels the same way.
Neil's Smaller World
December 20th, 2004 at 1am
Making unread tabs obvious in Firefox
Make unread tabs in Firefox appear in italics. Pretty cool for heavy users of tabbed browsing.
Wizzlopia
December 20th, 2004 at 1am
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Mark
December 20th, 2004 at 3am
Sounds like a good idea. This seems nice & simple. Is there a possiblity of having this as default behavior?
Nathan Wong
December 20th, 2004 at 5am
Is that valid CSS? Or is it that valid CSS that IE doesn’t support so nobody’s seen it before?
The
#content tab[selected="true"]
Part.
Hanspeter
December 20th, 2004 at 5am
It’s valid. See CSS selectors.
Neil Jenkins
December 20th, 2004 at 6am
Thanks for the tip! Personally, I prefer to make the text a different colour rather than make it italic – I use a dark red (#7F352C).
Cheers,
Neil
Bart N.
December 20th, 2004 at 7am
Nice tip, thanks Chu Yeow !
(btw is the anti-spam letter allways “R” ? :))
John Blackbourn
December 20th, 2004 at 7am
How cool would it be to have an extension which implemented this, which also had a feature where upon right-clicking the tab, you would be presented with a menu option “Mark Tab as Unread” …?
Patrick
December 20th, 2004 at 9am
I get italics for my unread tabs, I guess it comes with the theme I use: Noia 2.0 (eXtreme)
annonymous
December 20th, 2004 at 12pm
More concise version:
#content tab:not([selected]) {font-style: italic !important;}
Allen
December 23rd, 2004 at 10am
Thanks for posting this handy tip. I switched to Firefox from Opera just recently, and this was something I missed from Opera. Instead of italics, I made the whole tab a different color until selected. It looks great!
Tuan
January 25th, 2005 at 10am
Hello,
I installed the Unread Tabs Extension, restart Firefox like it said. I then opened multiple to see it works or not but it didn’t. There were no italicized tab. What went wrong? Please help.
Thank you
gambling
July 10th, 2005 at 11pm
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redemption in a blog - Unread tabs Firefox extension (otherwise known as the simplest extension ever)
January 23rd, 2006 at 10am
[...] I claim no credit for the extension: CSS comes from the Change the style of tab markers entry in the MozillaZine Knowledge Base. Thanks to an anonymous commentor, the CSS is just a single rule (rather than the 3 in the Knowledge Base entry linked to above): #content tab:not([selected]) { font-style: italic !important; } [...]
Aditya Mukherjee
February 15th, 2006 at 3pm
hi! this is a really good thing (showed up #1 on google! :)
but i wanted to know if there is anyway to color a read, but updated tab when its not selected. For example, if i have Gmail open in a tab (and we all know how Gmail automatically updates itself), it’ll change the tab color if there is any change in the content, or to just show that its finished reloading?
Thanks!