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If 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.
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I like using them on my intranet sites, precisely because they're disruptive eye catchers.
And that's precisely why you shouldn't be using them. We developers are some of the worst people at understanding what's actually important and what's not to a user's workflow.
With a userbase of precisely one, I can do whatever I want. :-)
Yeah, yeah, everyone loves to hate on Firefox. Still, if you're gonna do some shaming, pick something serious, there are some serious things to pick form iirc.
When chrome developers make closed source tools for flash that's fine, "It's all about business and they're a private corporation who can do what they want" but whenever the FF devs make any decision about anything they get criticized, and most of the people doing the criticisms are chrome users and people who swear by chrome for web development, but they seem to be the same people who completely ignore other web browsers as if chrome is all that matters. Back in the day we had to target all major browsers, now there's a group of people who have a major hard-on for chrome and don't give a shit about any other ecosystem and for some reason they think they're "good" programmers.
I noticed recently that firefox no longer stops playing animated gifs when I press the key. This behavior change, which prevents me from stopping annoying animations, annoys me more than any favicon ever did.
I have an idea, if you don't like something a site does, stop using it.
I really don't get that logic. To me what you're saying is equivalent to saying that we should never discuss anything. Something's wrong with the society? If you don't like it, you can just move to a different country. How can we possibly improve anything with that mindset? I know that I'm overreacting here, but I would genuenly like to here comments about that.
I can stop going to a website or a store because of many reasons without impacting anyone around me and getting the same result of not being botherd by them. That is not an option regarding where I live. No I can not just move, it is not that simple.
> I know that I'm overreacting here, but I would genuenly like to here comments about that.
It would seem you likely already know the answer.
I 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.
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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.