Comments on: Making unread tabs obvious in Firefox

By: Aditya Mukherjee

Aditya Mukherjee — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:03:41 +0000

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!

By: redemption in a blog - Unread tabs Firefox extension (otherwise known as the simplest extension ever)

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 02:20:07 +0000

[...] 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; } [...]

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By: Tuan

Tuan — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:17:23 +0000

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

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:48:23 +0000

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!

By: annonymous

annonymous — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 04:58:54 +0000

More concise version:

#content tab:not([selected]) {font-style: italic !important;}

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 01:20:51 +0000

I get italics for my unread tabs, I guess it comes with the theme I use: Noia 2.0 (eXtreme)

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:23:23 +0000

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” …?

By: Bart N.

Bart N. — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:04:32 +0000

Nice tip, thanks Chu Yeow !

(btw is the anti-spam letter allways “R” ? :))

By: Neil Jenkins

Neil Jenkins — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 22:46:03 +0000

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

By: Hanspeter

Hanspeter — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:40:57 +0000

It's valid. See CSS selectors.

By: Nathan Wong

Nathan Wong — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:27:13 +0000

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.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:13:17 +0000

Sounds like a good idea. This seems nice & simple. Is there a possiblity of having this as default behavior?

By: Wizzlopia

Wizzlopia — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:48:51 +0000

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 …

By: Neil's Smaller World

Neil's Smaller World — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:32:19 +0000

Making unread tabs obvious in Firefox
Make unread tabs in Firefox appear in italics. Pretty cool for heavy users of tabbed browsing.