Gmail Puts Unread Message Counts First in Tabs, Title Bars

Wed, Feb 25th, 2009

If we had to guess, we'd say that Gmail's latest Labs feature, putting an unread message count first in the title bar and tabs, was probably inspired by a certain Firefox add-on ...

... but who are we to divine what craziness lurks in the minds of Google's Gmail engineers? In any case, Gmail's Labs section now has a "Title Tweaks" option you can enable to put a count of unread messages in parentheses near the front of your Gmail page title, making it visible in most browser tabs and at the top of stand-alone windows. It's pretty much an official implementation of Gmail Inbox Display Unread Count FIRST, a Greasemonkey script written by our founding editor and Jon Ramsey, which was rolled into our all-in-one Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension.

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