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I feel like this would be rather annoying and distracting. I could just imagine my 10+ tabs in Firefox having a pie chart or something blinking instead of a plain image.

It feels like were devolving to the old websites of flashy and blinking images trying to lure people in. Don't get me wrong though, it is neat! But... Where is that disable favicon extension now?




A possible use case could be upload/download large files


Already implemented it in my uploader, but after hearing reports of a memory leak in Chrome I may need to remove it again. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.


Another thing is that the fav icon is too small to use for any meaningful notification.


Wait for the 4x favicon!




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