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Making unread tabs obvious in FirefoxDecember 20, 2004
Update: 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).
Making unread tabs obvious in Firefox
Make unread tabs in Firefox appear in italics. Pretty cool for heavy users of tabbed browsing.
Firefox Rules (Again)
Those who have read this blog before will know that I am a dedicated supporter of Firefox as an alternative to Internet Explorer, and it’s not just because I want to appear leet in front of my friends. I don’t think I need to list the most important …
Sounds like a good idea. This seems nice & simple. Is there a possiblity of having this as default behavior?
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.
It’s valid. See CSS selectors.
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
Nice tip, thanks Chu Yeow !
(btw is the anti-spam letter allways “R” ? :))
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” …?
I get italics for my unread tabs, I guess it comes with the theme I use: Noia 2.0 (eXtreme)
More concise version:
#content tab:not([selected]) {font-style: italic !important;}
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!
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
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[...] 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; } [...]
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!
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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.
Posted by: Jacob Riis on December 20, 2004 12am