Gmail Labs Add Unread Count on Favicon

Unread message iconAre you using any extension or add-on on your browser to keep track of the number of unread messages in Gmail? Just a day ago, I suggested that you replace such extension with Minimalist Gmail, a powerful Gmail customization extension for Chrome that features unread messages count on Gmail’s favicon.

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Chrome Tabs Shrink Too Small? Try These Extensions.

In Chrome, it’s not possible to set a minimum width for tabs and create a scrollable tab strip whenever your screen can’t fit all of them. Instead, the tabs will shrink smaller and smaller as you open more tabs, to a point where you can no longer see both the page title and favicon, like the screenshot below.

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ImageShack & imgur Right-Click Upload Firefox Add-on

ImageShack has officially stopped updating its right-click upload Firefox add-on since Firefox 3.0, to push more downloads for its toolbar presumably (only my grandmother install toolbars these days). However, with the amount of savvy developer out there, there are still Firefox add-ons with similar functionality that works well up to Firefox 3.6 & 4.0b7.

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