Yipeee....... It works!

Renovate Forum now has it's own favicon and it's on now. You'll find it to the left of the address line at the top of all pages and on all open tabs. It's the little orange house followed by: RENOVATE FORUM it could take a day for it to come through to all browsers. If you don't see it try holding down Ctrl and clicking on your browsers reset button.

Don't watch it an you won't get annoyed by it.... Maybe.

You should also notice that the advertising has gone from the front page and Thread Index page and now only one ad block appears on the pages where you read the threads/posts.

Cheers - Neil

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Neil,

It definitely works - I noticed it yesterday.

If you don't mind a comment or two on it?

I like the house symbol, but I kind of find the revolving "R-E-N-O-V-A-T-E- - F-O-R-U-M" text a little distracting when using a multi-tab browser. When view other tabs (yep, I admit it, sometimes I do look at other websites) the motion on the reno-forum tab can be distraction.

Great forum otherwise.

Chris

It's not annoying me...........because I have no idea what your talking about....................hence my avatar...........

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Regards,
Noel

Administrator Only when I have to

Mr Watson is on his first warning...............

chrisp - If you are using Firefox, just add the favicon gif to the adblock filter settings.

EDIT: Didn't work. So I disabled favicons globally (every website, animated or not) by using about:config in the firefox address bar. It ain't coming back from that!!!

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Fire fox........Favicon.................yep, it's all starting to come together now...........I just double click the big E on the desk top.

Hope that helps

Yep, the "industrial strength" solution fixed it good. Thanks for the tip.

For anyone else who is interested, there is a brief article at Quick Tip: Disable Favicons in Firefox :: the How-To Geek that shows how to disable the favicons.

It's a little-e

I just tried the "e" program and the new favicon isn't showing there on my system - yet.

I was referring to it's physical size, but thanks for pointing that out, Chris............

This Favicon thing has about as much reference to me as the "flux capacitor" for the time machine...........

yeah agreed. the house icon would be enough without the other fluff

It's giving me motion sickness

O.K...............I'm with it now.

Since installing and using the Friedfox browser......................I have this really annoying orange house rotating with the letters "renovation forum"

What purpose does it serve?

I HATE IT.......................is there a way of turning it OFF?

lol.... ahhh man All the fun and games of learning a new browser!

Check out Master Splinters post up a little futher... you can disable it in the about:config section... where exactly in there i don't know... google is your friend... or ask the Master!

Cheers
Armers

To disable the favicons in Firefox, filter using favicon in about:config. Double-click browser.chrome.favicons to set the value to False. Restart Firefox.

Cheers,
John

Yipeee....... It works!

After many hours of messing around with Firefox's sql table, learning about base 64 encoded blob images, and banging my head against a wall, I now have a solution to getting rid of the annoying animated favicon, without resorting to a 'nuke from orbit' style approach.

How to disable annoying animated favicons (in Firefox at least):

1. Download the attached zip file
2. Extract contents (userChrome.css)
3. Copy the userChrome.css file to the correct location (make the appropriate changes to the red text)
4. Restart Firefox.
5. If icon persists, go to Firefox's Tools - Options - Advanced and clear the cache and do another restart of Firefox.

Where does userChrome.css live???

C:\Documents and Settings\Your user id\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\random characters.default\chrome

User id is your id that you logon to windows with (Bob, Judyscomputer, Admin, whatever!)

Random characters will be just that (pef4thphx, 3rt9clekh, nt5oopaq)- it is just a random string.

If you've already got a userChrome.css file (with user code in it), you'll need to open my userChrome file (notepad is ideal), copy the content and paste it into your existing userChrome.css file.

Vista and Windows 7 users should be able to find the equivalent location here:
C:\Users\Windows login\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\random characters.default

See here for more assistance with finding the right location.

Aaaannnndddd - if you want a (nonanimated) image, create/find/steal a suitable image (not covered in this explanation, google it!!) and call it from this line in the userChrome.css script (just change the path to wherever you store it...below, it's shown stored on your C:/ drive).

background-image: url(" file:///C:/renovate.gif");

Since it worked for me...also attached is a gif file that is the house icon, but non-animated.

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