Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by avodonosov » Tue, Jul 07, 2015, 1:23 PM UTC

bad_user wrote: post #28

avodonosov wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's useful, My webmail (yandex) has this feature too.

I think such notifications is not what this ticket is about. Not just because technically in this use case favicon is replaced, not animated.

The ticket IMHO is about favicons which constantly move.

In any case, if I don't like a web site (its favicon, or the content) I don't use it; I personally don't see the anymated favicons as a serious problem and wouldn't spend any hour of my time working on it. Moreover we don't have right to demand it from FireFox team.

Although I understand the author of this post, I sometimes feel annoyed by certain features or problems in software too. Give it some time, and you will forget about it :)

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by kiiski » Tue, Jul 07, 2015, 1:25 PM UTC

ynak wrote: post #31

I also hope FireFox would prevent HTML5 YouTube videos form autoplaying and autoloading. They will implement a such feature in the next version, but it doesn't seem to work properly now (It's beta, I know). And it's not clear to stop autoloading, either. Does anyone have a good idea to block autoplay and load HTML5 videos? http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/11/finally-mozilla-adds-workin...

I think it would be possible to configure noscript to allow scripts, but require a click to play media (I haven't actually tried it like that, since I just keep almost all scripts blocked anyway).

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by conradfr » Tue, Jul 07, 2015, 2:05 PM UTC

This is amusing.

There are bugs opened for 10 years that are infuriating though, like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307089

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by petercooper » Tue, Jul 07, 2015, 2:10 PM UTC

Reminds me of block popup features (not necessarily solely in Firefox). Is it really that hard to prevent ANY new tabs or popups being opened by a page?

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by WorldWideWayne » Tue, Jul 07, 2015, 2:12 PM UTC

bnegreve wrote: post #17

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #8

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 think if people actually moved to a different country or state where they can find more like-minded people, things would be better all around.

Different opinions doesn't mean that one group is right and one is wrong. I don't want to live in a cookie cutter society. I'd rather everybody have their own space to do what they want without harming others.

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by RexRollman » Tue, Jul 07, 2015, 2:13 PM UTC

One nice thing about Firefox is that you can turn off the display of favicons via about:config. This is nice as I personally find them to be annoying and unneeded.

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by PavlovsCat » Tue, Jul 07, 2015, 2:19 PM UTC

db48x wrote: post #4

Hmm. How many animated favicons have you noticed? I can't think of any...

For an audio player I used it to display song progress, and if that wasn't so choppy I'd love to do actual audio visualization, too. And I just had an idea I will actually try: display website hits in the last 16 minutes or seconds while the tabs with the stats is open but not focused.

I'm not saying it's super important, but I also don't find it useless. I'm all for 60/120 fps favicons, even if I had to set a config flag to enable them.

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by artursapek » Tue, Jul 07, 2015, 2:22 PM UTC

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #21

db48x wrote: post #4

Hmm. How many animated favicons have you noticed? I can't think of any...

There can only be one: http://blog.arbitrary.io/the-arbitrary-logo/

Wow, what a horribly performing blog post.

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by stuaxo » Tue, Jul 07, 2015, 2:26 PM UTC

> These animated favicons are a huge problem for laptops. I just reduced

> Firefox's CPU usage from 21.6% to 2.8% by closing a single background tab

> with an animated favicon.

why does it use so much CPU ? Something is not optimised here, it should be a lot less.

Re: Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

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Post by tedks » Tue, Jul 07, 2015, 3:00 PM UTC

kiiski wrote: post #52

ynak wrote: post #31

I also hope FireFox would prevent HTML5 YouTube videos form autoplaying and autoloading. They will implement a such feature in the next version, but it doesn't seem to work properly now (It's beta, I know). And it's not clear to stop autoloading, either. Does anyone have a good idea to block autoplay and load HTML5 videos? http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/11/finally-mozilla-adds-workin...

I think it would be possible to configure noscript to allow scripts, but require a click to play media (I haven't actually tried it like that, since I just keep almost all scripts blocked anyway).

NoScript has a configuration option allowing you to set HTML5 content as click to play.