652051 - favicon does not changing at gmail when new mail arrives

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Roman Rader]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0) Gecko/20110321 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0) Gecko/20110321 Firefox/4.0

when new mail arrives in opened tab with gmail, favicon does not change.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open gmail.com
2. wait until the message comes

Actual Results:  
favicon is old!

Expected Results:  
favicon must contain the number of unread messages

Comment 1

[Srinivas]

Could you please confirm if javascript is disabled/enabled

With javascript disabled favicon do not display the # of unread messages

Comment 2

[Roman Rader]

Yes, of course, js is enabled.
When i open gmail, count of new messages is on favicon. But it does not changes, even if i mark all messages as read.

Comment 3

[Thomas Ahlblom]

I suppose the feature discussed here is the non-standard Google Labs extension "Unread message icon". Google calls that "Some crazy experimental stuff" and "They may change, break or disappear at any time". Anyway...

Works unreliably for me with:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110419 Firefox/6.0a1

One thing that I dream up is that it works more reliable when running Gmail in a non-pinned tab than in an app-tab. Someone else who has done the same observation?

Comment 4

[Thomas Ahlblom]

I've also found that there is some kind of interference with the Gmail Priority Inbox. The favicon gets updated when a mail magically jumps from "Everything else" to "Important and unread".

Comment 5

[Srinivas]

Google Labs extension "Unread message icon" sometimes shows the mail count for priority messages and sometimes for all the  unread messages.