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The FF4 delivers an app tab feature and it looks like both Gmail and Twitter have some notification code when a new mail or tweet come the app tab would look like a litter lighter. Does any know how to operate the app tab with the notification? I can see the code of a pinned application of IE9 with similar function. But I could not run into any document of FF.

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Do you mean that you're building a website and you want to let Firefox notify the user on an event when the tab is pinned?

I'm fairly certain Firefox does it when the website's <title> is changed. For instance on Twitter, when there's a new tweet, the title is changed from "Twitter / Home" to "(1) Twitter / Home". Firefox notices this and notifies the user.

So really, any javascript function that changes <title> will make it work.

I hope that helps

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    Thank you adlawson. I can confirm that changing the title indeed makes the tab 'glow'. – Gerben Apr 15 '11 at 09:13
  • Does this also work with the Chrome browser? If so, then this answers this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7587312/browser-tab-change-notification-like-when-you-get-a-new-gmail-e-mail-or-a-new-twe – Jacob Sep 28 '11 at 17:55