X New-Posts Badge

Shows your X (Twitter) home-feed new-posts count on the toolbar, tab, favicon and app icon — even while you're on another tab.

X New-Posts Badge shows the number of new posts waiting on your X (formerly Twitter) home timeline, so you can see it at a glance — even while you're on another tab or in another app. X only shows its "Show N posts" pill when you're looking at the tab. This extension keeps that number live in the background and puts it where you can actually see it, on up to four surfaces (each can be turned on or off independently): • Toolbar badge — the count on the extension's icon, in any Chrome window. • Tab title — "(N)" at the start of the tab title (works in X's "Open in app" windows too). • Favicon — the number drawn on the tab's site icon. • App icon badge — the count on the installed-app dock icon (macOS) / taskbar icon (Windows). The count mirrors X's own "Show N posts" number exactly and clears to 0 when you view your new posts. Large counts show as 99+. By default the extension only refreshes while you're away from X (so it never gets in your way). An optional "keep refreshing while focused" setting (off by default) keeps the count climbing even while you're actively looking — see the settings for the trade-off. macOS dock badge not showing? Chrome now only shows an installed app's dock badge if macOS has given that app notification permission. If "X" isn't listed in System Settings → Notifications, the badge is silently dropped (the toolbar badge, tab title and favicon keep working). If X is listed, just turn on "Allow notifications" and "Badge application icon". If it isn't, do this once: 1. In a normal Chrome tab on x.com, click the site-settings icon in the address bar and set Notifications to Allow. 2. Quit Chrome completely (Cmd+Q), then run this in Terminal: open -a "Google Chrome" --args --enable-features=AppShimNotificationAttribution 3. Open the X app from the dock, press Cmd+Option+J to open its console, and run (if Chrome blocks pasting, type "allow pasting" first): new Notification('X New-Posts Badge', { body: 'Allow so the dock badge can show.', tag: 'xnpb-' + Date.now() }) 4. When macOS asks "X would like to send you notifications", click Allow. 5. Quit Chrome and start it normally. macOS remembers the permission. Don't want X pop-ups? In System Settings → Notifications → X, set the alert style to None and keep "Badge application icon" on. Privacy: no data is collected, stored, or transmitted. No analytics, no tracking, no accounts, no remote servers, and no network requests of its own — it only reads X's own home-timeline refresh, entirely on your device. It runs only on x.com / twitter.com (home timeline). Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by X Corp or Google LLC. "X" and "Twitter" are trademarks of X Corp; "Google Chrome" is a trademark of Google LLC.