blinklight

LED notification of urgent tabs on Linux

What is blinklight?

BlinkLight is a free Chrome extension that uses your laptop's LED to indicate new content in pinned tabs on Linux. It is particularly useful when the browser window is minimized or on another workspace. Pin a tab to get started!

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2023-09-14

By: Sebastian Noack

Users: 5

Rating: 4.50 (2)

Version: 2.2 (Last updated: 2017-05-11)

Creation date: 2017-05-11

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
storage
webNavigation
nativeMessaging
<all_urls>

Size: 13.21K

URLs: Website

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Summary

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Notifies you about new content (such as unread messages) in pinned tabs, using one of your laptop's LEDs, like the power button on newer ThinkPads, or the ThinkLight on older models. Only compatible with Linux!

Most interactive websites, like mail and chat web apps, change the page title in order to indicate new messages. If that happens in a pinned tab in the background, the tab is highlighted in order to get your attention. With this extension, in addition, an LED will be used, in order to indicate that a pinned tab's title has changed. This is in particular useful, when the browser window is minimized or on another workspace.

In order to pin a tab, right click on the tab and choose "Pin tab".

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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

User reviews

Great extension. Of the options, only one works, CapsLock key though, would prefer to choose power LED or some other. OS is Ubuntu 16.04 on Samsung NP700 series

Scott Young, 2017-05-12

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Safety

Risk impact

blinklight is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install blinklight if you trust the publisher.