Changing the favicon because of such a small issue sounds silly to me. If you need to be notified of new inbox messages, consider the next Stackapps: - [stacknotify google chrome extension][1] - [A user script to update the page/tab title with # of unread notifications][2] If you want to, I can create a userscript that colors the whole bar red on new inbox messages. [1]: http://stackapps.com/q/2356/6969 [2]: http://stackapps.com/q/2362/6969