Re:Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons
by bad_user on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @08:32AM
(#9844982)
GMail has a cool extension in Labs that changes the favicon to display the number of unread messages. So that's a use-case.
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Re:Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons
by avodonosov on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @09:23AM
(#9845235)
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
by pilsetnieks on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @09:15AM
(#9845184)
That isn't really animation, they actually change the icon. The firefox bug is about setting an animated gif as a favicon.