Favicon Badges

Displays an unread count badge on a webpage's icon.

What is Favicon Badges?

Favicon Badges is a Chrome extension that displays an unread count badge on a webpage's icon. It works on pages with numbers in parentheses in their titles, making it useful for pinned tabs. The extension has regular updates, including bug fixes and improved settings synchronization.

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By: Tilman

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 196 ▲ 6

Rating: 3.71 (14)

Version: 0.2.0 (Last updated: 2013-02-11)

Creation date: 2013-02-11

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
storage
http://*/*
https://*/*

Size: 25.75K

Ranking

# 54721 ▲ 405

Other rankings

#15628 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 59 #6 in badge keyword 4 ▼ 1

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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This extension will show an unread count badge on a webpage's icon. It will work on all pages whose page title contains a number in parentheses. This is especially useful for pinned tabs.

Updates:

0.2.0

Fixed clicking popup button not working
Improved setting synchronization
Improved settings page

0.1.6

Updated for latest version of Chrome
Now syncs settings between computers

0.1.5

Fixed badge not vanishing every time

User reviews

Does not work anymore since Chrome 91.

Wolfgang Milszus, 2021-07-24

This is perfect. Thank you very much Mr Tilman. No idea why Google don't make this by default. They're quite often utterly clueless from the user point of view.