Google Chrome Extension Numbers on the Icon

Question

I\'ve been experimenting with a Chrome Extension, and I want to make one similar to my Google Voice Extension where the icon shows a little blue \"1\" next to the icon when

Answer 1

You can set a badge on your browser action with setBadgeText:

chrome.browserAction.setBadgeText({text: "10+"}); // We have 10+ unread items.

Note that if the text you pass is longer than 4 characters, it will be truncated to the first 4 characters.