Hmm. How many animated favicons have you noticed? I can't think of any...
There can only be one:
Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons
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Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons
#22I didn't read the entire bugreport; did anybody mention non-gif dynamic favicon changes? Like this:
https://gist.githack.com/hraban/e669edce68fbb9cd004b/raw/5f8...
(essentially: $('link[rel=icon]')[0].href='...';)
Because that's kind of useful for a lot of sites. Then again, if you don't remove that, what's the use of banning gifs?
Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons
#23Hmm. How many animated favicons have you noticed? I can't think of any...
I've seen zero animated favicons. I'm wondering if it's a "feature" that doesn't work on Linux. The URL bar doesn't even display favicons anymore, although they show up without animation in bookmarks.
Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons
#24It's a trap
Low priority issues can sometimes linger around for a very long time taking away precious focus of developers and creating distractions from adding real-value-features.
Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or rather, a userscript/plugin?
what plugin?
Greasemonkey extension with some script like https://gist.github.com/robbyrussell/46193 (I didn't test it but it should work)
Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons
#26For anyone who hasn't seen it, a favicon-based game:
Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
what plugin?
Greasemonkey extension with some script like https://gist.github.com/robbyrussell/46193 (I didn't test it but it should work)
Ah, a script/plugin as a workaround? Maybe, but do the sites with animates favicons deserve so much attention? Do you know any useful web site with animated favicon?
Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Greasemonkey extension with some script like https://gist.github.com/robbyrussell/46193 (I didn't test it but it should work)
Ah, a script/plugin as a workaround? Maybe, but do the sites with animates favicons deserve so much attention? Do you know any useful web site with animated favicon?
GMail has a cool extension in Labs that changes the favicon to display the number of unread messages. So that's a use-case.
Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons
#29If a browser blocks animated favicons, I can see that blocking sites that dynamically update the favicon with a badge to show unread messages / new updates / etc.
Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons
#30I didn't read the entire bugreport; did anybody mention non-gif dynamic favicon changes? Like this: https://gist.githack.com/hraban/e669edce68fbb9cd004b/raw/5f8... (essentially: $('link[rel=icon]')[0].href='...';) Because that's kind of useful for a lot of sites. Then again, if you don't remove that, what's the use of banning gifs?
That's interesting, the animation seems to be slower when I'm on another tab, maybe Firefox has some optimisations affecting this.