Visual notifications

This extension shows a visual notification when inactive tab plays sound.
What is Visual notifications?
Visual notifications is a simple Chrome extension that provides visual notifications when inactive tabs start playing sound. It works only with Linux operating system and is useful for users who want to have a visual notification in addition to sound notification for web chat clients or to quickly find tabs that are playing sound.

Extension stats

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2024-05-24
Users: 172
Rating: 3.67 (3)
Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2023-12-09)
Creation date: 2017-05-18
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 12.26K

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Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

This is a simple extension that is monitoring tab activity. When the tab state was changed to audible (i.e. when tab started to play sound), tab's window will be notified with "drawAttention: true", operating system will mark the window state as URGENT and the button in a task bar will start blinking.

Usage:

  • when there is a web chat client (e.g. whatsapp) and user wants to have visual notification in addition to sound notification,
  • when some tab starts playing sound and user wants to find it quickly.

Note that this extension works only with Linux operating system.

User reviews

It doesn't do anything for me. I'm using standard Chrome on Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon. However Sound Found works, so I'm going with that.
by Tang Pedersen, 2023-10-31

I have multiple tabs open with the web app "textfree.us" I installed this extension and it does not seem to work? Any ideas or can you point me in the right direction? This is exactly what I need. I will have a dozen tabs open and one will play a sound and I have to look through them all. EDIT: The extension is grayed out. I will troubleshoot and report back. Thank you
by Charlene Fila, 2018-02-01
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Visual notifications does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Visual notifications may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

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