I know this is completely off topic, but is there any reason a website should have a rapidly changing gif animation as their tab icon?
I tend to open a ton of tabs and leave them open (particularly if they're interesting and I want to re-read it or refer to it in a blog post), but the constant oscillation of that tab icon is so distracting that I feel compelled to close that tab as soon as possible since it's going to get in my peripheral vision as I do other work (it's even distracting me as I type this very post!)
I thought the blog post was really interesting but now the only thing I remember about the site is the obnoxious icon, and it compels me not to look at the archives for other potentially intriguing posts :(.
Dear OP, please change that icon. I think it will increase readership and good will of your otherwise interesting blog.
I had to test in most of my installed browsers before I found one that actually animated the icon - Firefox. Chrome, Safari, and Opera have all decided (rightly, you'll probably agree) that allowing animated favicons is not a good idea.
Chrome has a hideously awful alternative though: The tab icon throbs when AJAX updates a page (Gmail, etc), regardless of the web developer or user's preferences.
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I know this is completely off topic, but is there any reason a website should have a rapidly changing gif animation as their tab icon?
I tend to open a ton of tabs and leave them open (particularly if they're interesting and I want to re-read it or refer to it in a blog post), but the constant oscillation of that tab icon is so distracting that I feel compelled to close that tab as soon as possible since it's going to get in my peripheral vision as I do other work (it's even distracting me as I type this very post!)
I thought the blog post was really interesting but now the only thing I remember about the site is the obnoxious icon, and it compels me not to look at the archives for other potentially intriguing posts :(.
Dear OP, please change that icon. I think it will increase readership and good will of your otherwise interesting blog.
I had to test in most of my installed browsers before I found one that actually animated the icon - Firefox. Chrome, Safari, and Opera have all decided (rightly, you'll probably agree) that allowing animated favicons is not a good idea.
Chrome has a hideously awful alternative though: The tab icon throbs when AJAX updates a page (Gmail, etc), regardless of the web developer or user's preferences.
Came here to ask for a firefox add-on that disables favicons.
Counterpoint: I love it.