Blue Dot Replacement Blue Dot Replacement

Productivity
Version: 1.3.2
Last Update: 2021-06-07

Overview

Blue Dot Replacement is a Chrome extension developed by will.groenendyk. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Blue Dot Replacement is 1.3.2, updated on 2021-06-07.
267 users have installed this extension. 11 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .

Show a flashing alert icon when an unfocused tab's title changes.

Older versions of Chrome would display a dot next to the icon of recently updated tabs, which many users found extremely helpful for web applications like Slack, Mattermost, etc. Unfortunately, this feature has since been dropped from Chrome.

This extension is MIT licensed and open-source (see https://github.com/willg101/blue-dot-replacement)

Privacy Policy: [a](https://github.com/willg101/blue-dot-replacement/blob/1.3.0/PRIVACY%20POLICY.md)

New in version 1.3.0 (2018-10-26): Added a privacy policy (thanks to Github user @fngdenco, who suggested this!)
New in version 1.2.0 (2018-10-08): Added an option to disable the flashing icon for those who find it distracting (thanks to Github user @ferdnyc, who implemented this!)

Rating

11 ratings
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Total Installs

267

Information

Last Update

2021-06-07

Current Version

1.3.2

Size

17.55KiB

Author

will.groenendyk

Website

None

Category

Productivity

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avatar Yu Cho
2021-06-05

Hi After Chrome is update to version 91.0.4472.77, this great extension can not work anymore, because Chrome changed the tab name showing method, Sad!!

avatar J Yen
2020-11-26

Works as stated, even after all those version updates.

avatar Jeremy Rice
2020-11-20

I am happy to be able to tell when my pinned tabbed have notifications that require my attention. Thanks.

...But I *really* wish it didn't also flash on the bookmarks bar. A) it seems to do this when there aren't actually any notifications for the given page (this seems like a bug), and B) I habitually click on those icons, which mucks up which page my pinned tabs are actually on, interrupting my workflow. :S

I imagine this is NOT something the dev can fix, due to the nature of how icons are implemented with Chrome... but... man. It definitely makes this less valuable for me. I ended up turning off my bookmarks bar, which is a drag. :

avatar Allen Wilson
2019-11-09

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!!!

avatar A Google User
2019-01-23

I've added an animated gif and it seems to work in the Options preview, but not on the live tabs on chrome. Any suggestions on making that work?