proof-of-concept: display saved duration in extension icon's badge

[siadat]

As promised in #185 and requested in #643, here is a proof-of-concept for showing the total saved time on top of the extension icon. I wanted to see how it could work. My conclusion is that it adds too much complexity for a feature that is not of critical importance for the maintainer(s) of the project. So, I don't recommend it being merged. However, feel free to use it as the basis for your own experimentations. :)

Here's a screenshot of the badge indicating 9 minutes of saved time (in total, for all videos in all tabs since the extension was installed).

[igrigorik]

Thanks for prototyping this! Two thoughts..

There's been some suggestions around displaying time remaining, given the current speed, instead of time saved -- I think the former makes a lot more sense, as saved is just a vanity metric but remaining provides useful information. That said, if we're going to use the badge space, I think my preference is to reserve it for "current speed" -- shifting this display into the UI would fix a lot of potential problems for folks.

With above in mind, I think my suggestion is to park this but we can use it as reference in the future.

[siadat]

displaying time remaining, given the current speed

That sounds good, I would love that too. It would probably be simpler to implement as well (fewer states/information to handle).

Feel free to close/open this thread any time you want :)