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Reviews for Tab Counter Plus

Tab Counter Plus by Oriol Brufau

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  • by Firefox user 14269091, 7 years ago
    EDIT: It appears the review was submitted before I had finished writing it. So I've deleted my original review and am re-posting it.

    Unfortunately, there's less functionality than Michael Kraft's original. I vastly prefer this compared to the replacement suggested by Firefox, and I do enjoy the ability to click on the counter to view the total number of open tabs.

    What this add-on does, it does well. However, providing font customisation would make it a perfect 5 star add-on. I rather liked using a bold text number to display the number of tabs but that's not possible with this add on. Some basic font customisation would be nice.

    It's also a shame that the size of the text becomes very small when the number of open tabs increases to 3 or more digits, but I expect this is a limitation caused by Firefox (I think all toolbar icons must be the same size) so I haven't deducted a star for this. Still, it would be nice if you could find a workaround.

    Regardless, thank you for taking your time to write this extension. Even if you're unable to include font customisation, it's still vastly better than not having a tab counter. Its funny how much you miss the little things in life when they're taken away from you!


    EDIT #2: Thanks for getting back to me! It looks like you've basically done all you can within the limitations set by WebExtensions so I've upgraded the review to 5 stars. Hopefully font customisation works out, but I won't hold my breath as I'm not sure if you'll be able to do much within the 16 pixels available.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Thanks for your feedback!

    Effectively, WebExtension APIs provide no way to increase the size of the icon. I only have 16 pixels, that's a bit too few for 3 digits, and totally insufficient for more digits.

    I will consider adding some font customization, tracked in https://github.com/Loirooriol/tab-counter-plus/issues/13
  • by tubeliar, 7 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14142584, 7 years ago
    love it :D

    *EDIT
    I have two Tab counter addons installed, one that shows th
    total open tabs
    and one that shows
    total open tabs in any window :D
    so that I do not have to click and check :D
    I am a bit lazy :p

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Glad to hear it! I'm thinking about ways to make it even better.

    *EDIT
    Being able to have multiple browser actions (i.e toolbar icons) per extension could be interesting, I will propose it if I can come up with a nice API.