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Grofit
Grofit

Reputation: 18445

Changing browser title not blinking browser in taskbar

There are a lot of tutorials on how to do this, and the crux of it seems to be changing the title constantly so the browser tab or taskbar will flash, however this doesn't seem to work for me.

I can see the tab changing its title, but it doesn't flash, so I am wondering if this is something which is no longer allowed by browsers?

I am using Windows 8.1, however have also tried Windows XP

I am using Firefox 25.0.1 and Chrome 31.0.1650.57 and neither of them react how I would expect.

As an example go to: https://rawgithub.com/heyman/jquery-titlealert/master/example/index.html (Make sure you click the shield icon in your url bar to allow the scripts to run on that page)

Then if you click the default example button and switch tabs, I would expect the tab hosting that page to blink or flash to indicate the tab has new content, however it doesn't do that for me, although I can see the text changing constantly.

Does anyone else have this issue and know how to solve it or why it occurs? I am looking to implement a feature in a chat system where it notifies you to new messages, however for some reason the code works fine and the title changes, but the taskbar or tab do not flash or anything and the users are really wanting this feature soon.

There seems to be no information on the internet related to this so im a bit confused and came here as a last resort.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 943

Answers (1)

tcak
tcak

Reputation: 2212

In Firefox, tab flashes when title is changed ONLY if it is a pinned tab.

Upvotes: 1

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