In the same way as I did for Twitter in an earlier post, I have now created a bookmarklet that adds notification overlay icons to Google+’s Taskbar icon, when pinned in IE9.  Currently Google+ only has a small favicon, and I have not found a way to tweak this once the page has loaded, so it’s not quite as pretty as Twitter’s icon, but it’s better than nothing!

Enjoy.

Right click Google+ Overlay Icon (IE9 only!) and click Add to Favorites to create the bookmarklet.

Formatted code for the bookmarklet:

(function() {
    var fLastCount = -1;

    window.setInterval(function()
    {
      try
      {
       var res = document.getElementById('gbi1');
       if(res) {
          var nNewCount = parseInt(res.innerHTML,10);
          if(nNewCount == NaN) nNewCount = 0;
          if(nNewCount != fLastCount) {
            var ico = nNewCount > 5 ? 'error' : 'num_'+nNewCount;
            window.external.msSiteModeSetIconOverlay('http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Browser/tweetfeed/Images/'+ico+'.ico',
              nNewCount+' notifications');
            fLastCount = nNewCount;
          }
        }
        else if(fLastCount != 0) {
          window.external.msSiteModeClearIconOverlay();
          fLastCount = 0;
        }
      } catch(e) { }
    }, 1000);

    })();