Display Unread Gmail Count in Favicon
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The dynamic duo of Greasemonkey extension and Firefox gets in action with a script to show off your unread email count of Gmail Inbox in the favicon. A must-have script for the Gmailers or (frequent Gmail Users)!
For those who don’t know about favicon, its a small image appearing at the top with the title that show a small logo of the website you are currently on. Like if you are on Life Baker you will see a icon as “LB” near the title or you see a “M” shaped envelope icon while using Gmail. It is used to quickly recognize the tab without reading its title.
What this script exactly does is shows off the number of unread messages in the favicon itself. It shows blue “M” icon for Gmail accounts and for other hosted domains the “M” icon is turned blue. However the script has a limit of 10 mails. If your unread mails in GMail inbox exceeds 10 mails, it shows off 10+ icon rather than showing the count.
Gmail is smart enough and shows off the unread count in title but still this script get handy while you have opened many tabs and the width of the tabs have decreased. It also forms a great combination with Faviconize extension with which you can hide titles of Firefox tabs.
The script requires Greasemonkey extension and the Firefox itself. Download the script from Userscripts.org website.
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