Blue Dot Replacement
Show a flashing alert icon when an unfocused tab's title changes.
What is Blue Dot Replacement?
Blue Dot Replacement is a Chrome extension developed by will.groenendyk, and its main feature is "Show a flashing alert icon when an unfocused tab's title changes.".
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Extension Usage Instructions
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!) Extension Basic Information
| Name |  Blue Dot Replacement |
| ID | opjidajjikdcpbpbbcmadmignnimecco |
| Official URL | https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/blue-dot-replacement/opjidajjikdcpbpbbcmadmignnimecco |
| Description | Show a flashing alert icon when an unfocused tab's title changes. |
| File Size | 17.55 KB |
| Installation Count | 312 |
| Current Version | 1.3.2 |
| Last Updated | 2021-06-08 |
| Publish Date | 2018-12-03 |
| Rating | 4.18/5 Total 11 Ratings |
| Developer | will.groenendyk |
| [email protected] | |
| Payment Type | free |
| Help Page URL | https://github.com/willg101/blue-dot-replacement |
| Privacy Policy Page URL | https://github.com/willg101/blue-dot-replacement/blob/master/PRIVACY%20POLICY.md |
| Supported Languages | en-US |
| manifest.json | |
{
"update_url": "https:\/\/clients2.google.com\/service\/update2\/crx",
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "Blue Dot Replacement",
"description": "Show a flashing alert icon when an unfocused tab's title changes.",
"version": "1.3.2",
"author": "Will Groenendyk",
"options_ui": {
"chrome_style": true,
"page": "options.html",
"open_in_tab": false
},
"background": {
"persistent": false,
"scripts": [
"bg.js"
]
},
"icons": {
"16": "img\/icon16.png",
"32": "img\/icon32.png",
"128": "img\/icon128.png"
},
"web_accessible_resources": [
"img\/alarm.png"
],
"short_name": "BDR",
"permissions": [
"tabs",
"storage",
"https:\/\/*\/*",
"http:\/\/*\/*"
]
} | |
