Re: iceweasel 3: favicon while tab is loading

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 June 2008 06:55:46 pm Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In sid's iceweasel 3 I notice a difference with iceweasel 2:
> > > >
> > > > when a tab is loading the favicon shown would slowly rotate in version
> > > > 2, but in version 3 it stays stuck at the beginning.
> > > >
> > > > Searching bugzilla.mozilla.org I find nothing under "favicon", but it
> > > > clearly is a visible but minor bug.
> > > >
> > > > Anybody else notice this behavior?
> > > BTW, it's called the 'throbber'...
> >
> > That is also seen here.
>
> Damon, its all explained in
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487411
>
> But I am not sure that it will ever work as in FF3

That bug is fixed by Mike Hommey and the bug is closed.
The throbbers look better than in FF3.
You need to install xulrunner-1.9 in order to have the fix installed.

Hugo