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I've noticed with the latest release of google chrome that any of my pinned tabs will start blinking if there is new (ajax) content available. It's mainly Gmail, Reader, Facebook, Twitter doing this at the moment.
I'm finding it extremely distracting. Does anyone know how to disable the blinking tabs?
Note, I do not want to close the tabs. I am thinking about moving my pinned tabs to a new window that's not always on screen, but I'd prefer not to do this.
If you go into the Options page, there is an On Startup option in the Basics tab. In this, you can set any number of pages to open when Chrome starts.
I wanted something like this but I only wanted to pause the JavaScript v8 context for inactive tabs as this is less disruptive to the page than turning JavaScript off. As what I found also somewhat answers the OP's question I'll put what I found here.
I found out that doing that was possible with chrome.experimental.debugger and they provide an sample extension which uses the debugger which creates an icon which allows one to pause and unpause the current tab.
I haven't yet tested whether that could be adapted to automatically pause tabs when inactive and unpause them when they become active.
Best Answer
It seems that for both Chrome and Firefox, the only solution is to unpin the tabs. The tabs should not have this behavior unless they are pinned, and the flash is due to a change in the title of the page.
An alternative is to use an extension like Stylish, which will allow you to modify the page template, potentially changing the title to a static value that does not change.