Animated Favicons
Maybe everyone else already knows about this, but, I stumbled upon this a few weeks back, and then again recently. It turns out, you can have animated favicons in Firefox!
The secret is simply to have simply have a 16×16 animated GIF and point the page to that GIF as your favicon using the following code:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" />
Using an animated favicon will animate your icon in the Firefox tabs, in the bookmarks list, and in the address bar. If someone has bookmarked your site, a animated favicon might just bring them back! 
It also looks like you can just rename your 16×16 animated gif to "favicion.ico". This will allow Internet Explorer to display it, but only the first frame and not animated.
Make sure you place the favicon.ico file on the web root too, as some browsers will automatically detect it.
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Mar 20, 2007
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