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About

What better way to keep an eye on your inbox than with a Firefox add-on? Now you can tell at a glance how many items are in your inbox without worrying about having a tab open to a Stack Exchange site.

License

GPL version 3

Download

You can install Stack Alert from the Mozilla add-on page here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stack-alert/

Platform

Any platform that runs Mozilla Firefox 8-10

Contact

I can be reached at admin@quickmediasolutions.com.

Code

The extension is written in JavaScript.

You can get the code here: https://github.com/nathan-osman/Stack-Alert
(look in the firefox/ folder for the Firefox-specific code)

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this doesn't seem to work with the current version of Firefox. When I attempt to give it access to my account it just comes to a complete stop at the "Authorizing Application" page, and doesn't proceed any further. I tried closing firefox and clearing my cache/history/logging in, but it didn't resolve the problem. I was able to get it working in Chrome though. – Wipqozn Feb 3 at 21:46
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@Wipqozn: I can reproduce your problem. I will look into this as soon as possible and let you know when it is fixed. – George Edison♦ Feb 3 at 21:55
I can also confirm it's error in version 10 of Firefox. Hopefully its nothing major.. – Simon Sheehan Feb 3 at 22:11
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@GeorgeEdison Appreciate it. – Wipqozn Feb 3 at 22:16
@Wipqozn: I have fixed the bug in v0.23 which should make its way to your machine within the next day or two. – George Edison♦ Feb 4 at 3:52
@George will reinstalling the plugin fix it now? (assuming your last comment means an update was pushed) – Simon Sheehan Feb 4 at 4:06
@SimonSheehan: No. It has to be approved by Mozilla first. That may take from a few hours to a day or two. – George Edison♦ Feb 4 at 4:24
@GeorgeEdison Great, thanks. – Wipqozn Feb 4 at 14:41
This addon wasn't working for me on FF 8.x but I recently upgraded to 10.0.1 and it just started working. – slm Feb 17 at 14:20
@slm: That's correct - FF 8.x is not supported by Stack Alert. – George Edison♦ Feb 17 at 19:03
It doesn't work in ff 10.0.2. It always says that "an error has occurred" after I authorize it, and then it doesn't display any new notifications. I'm using linux. – Christofian Feb 25 at 22:35
@Christofian: I will look into it and let you know what the problem is. – George Edison♦ Feb 25 at 22:49
well, it does display a number one when there is a new notification, but when I click the button it says an error has occurred. – Christofian Feb 25 at 22:58
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@Christofian: That's definitely a bug. I'll look into it. – George Edison♦ Feb 26 at 0:21
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@GeorgeEdison the bug appears to be fixed now :) – Christofian Mar 3 at 16:45
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In my opinion, the icon is too large at 24 x 24. I am using the Windows Classic theme. I used the following CSS in my userChrome.css file to resize it to 16 x 16:

.stackalert-button *
{
    width: 24px !important;
    height: 16px !important;
}
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