Tab Notifier is described as 'Firefox extension to receive Desktop notifications for Google Calendar, Gmail and other web-based mail services' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are 2 alternatives to Tab Notifier for Linux and Windows. The best Tab Notifier alternative is Mail Notification, which is both free and Open Source.
Mail Notification monitors your mailboxes for new mail. It can monitor multiple mailboxes concurrently, and supports Evolution, Gmail, IMAP, Maildir, mbox, MH, Mozilla products (Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, …), POP3, Sylpheed, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail mailboxes.
Gmail Notifier is a Linux/Windows alternative for the notifier program released by Google, it is written in Python and provides an attractive and simple way to check for new mail messages.
