It would be nice to have an indication of number of unread articles in Newsblur in the title bar. So the title of the browser tab / window would be “NewsBlur (51)”, that sort of thing. Ideally, it would be the count of the currently selected set-up, so if I have one folder selected and the slider set to green, the number would be the number of “good” articles in that folder only.
Here’s why:
I keep a select few sites open as “app” tabs in Firefox (aka “pinned tabs” in Chrome). All but Newsblur show some indication of unread articles in their title bar - Twitter shows new tweets; Facebook shows notification count, etc.
When you make a tab into an app tab (or pin it in Chrome), you lose all the text, but if the title of the page changes, Firefox (and Chrome) highlights that tab to let you know something interesting has happened. They only do it, though, if the title of the page has changed (so as to avoid highlighting if, e.g., an ad reloads itself or something).
Oh, I felt so dirty asking for more votes. You have such a thorough write-up. Went ahead and implemented this and deployed. It’s now a preference. Let me know how that works for you. I think a number of other people would like this. It’s also been a feature request since way back when, so it’s about damn time.
Man, I love this. Someones got an request.
You instantly reply.
Much better: You instantly do.
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Hello, great feature, thank you for implementing it. Would have been even better if it had been formatted like so: ‘(x/y) NewsBlur’. That way, when reading the title from the taskbar, we could still see the numbers even when many different applications are open and only the start of the title is displayed. It is a small detail of course, but quality and ease of use is all in the attention paid to details. I know some smart websites who do it this way. Even GMail has it as a Lab option.
