This neat little contraption goes 5 steps ahead of the Gmail Notifier Google put out as a Sample Extension. Not only does it show if your inbox has any new messages, Click on the sweat little icon and a box will pop-up on the page (NOT a pop-up dialog) and present you with your folders in your Hotmail account highlighting any of the folders that have unread emails in them, just like mail.live.com !!! Except click on a folder…. And that folder opens up in a new window.

Current Version: 6.3
Download Link: https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1703837/Hotmail.crx
Browser Compatibility : 3.0.193.0 or Later

Features:
* Displays Unread emails in the inbox on the toolstrip
* Clicking the Extension on the toolstrip opens up a popup window with a list of Folders in your Account
* Clicking a folder in the popup causes that folder to open in a new chrome window

Issues Fixed in latest release:
All Fixes
* Fixed the Popup UI issue when opened, but before folders are shown, replaced with loading screen. [r7]
* Made the Folder View have a smaller minimum Width as per harrispo’s request. will still expand according to folder size if it is greater than the min-size of the folder container. [r8]
* Made the first run of the extension quicker, and fixed the IFrame non-sense bug (It the extension never worked after ver 4 and before 6.3) you probably encountered this. [r10][r14][r15]
* Cleaned up the Trunk at Google Code, no Fixes. [r11][r12]

KNOWN BUGS:
Please report all bugs Here.

PLEASE NOTE:

If Windows Live Mail DOES NOT LOAD in Chrome (as well as my extension) you will need to add *.live.com to IE’s Trusted Sites list in IE settings for Windows Live Mail and my extension to work
In order to get it to work, you first have to log on to Hotmail in Google Chrome.
The extension will most probably ONLY work if you have login set to automatic for Hotmail.

Screenshots:

Popup Opened: