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Bad icon position while loading
With the latest release (I am using 78.0.268.3), when I load or refresh a page, the loading symbol will load on top of the favicon which is a little annoying...
In previous versions, the favicon would be replaced with the loading icon.
While I don't mind having the loading icon as well as the page favicon, I do mind having it overlapping.
How about pushing it more towards the left, so it will look something like this;
Loading Icon > Page Favicon > Page Title, instead of now where Loading Icon is Together with the Favicon
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Microsoft has confirmed the removal of the favicon animation:
- The actual link is in this same forum though:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Dev-channel-update-to-78-0-276-2-is-live/m-p/859532
"Fixed an issue where the webpage favicon and the loading spinner appear at the same time."
i know why they treat it as a bug and now fixed it. because it was never Microsoft's intention to make it like that. it came from upstream Chromium source and got implemented in Edge insider, it was unwanted.
Microsoft hopefully will make a better one for their own browser.
I hope this is a bug in Canary and that the animation has not been removed, I like it.
- What are you using to create those gifs?
- To create a gif, you should first record a video. you can do it using built-in Windows 10 game bar or use free and more feature rich software like OBS:
https://obsproject.com/
then you can use Adobe products like Photoshop to create your gif or just use an online gif creator/converter:
https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif
been doing this a lot
- In Edge Insider Canary, the favicon disappears. so they're still working on it, nothing is final at this stage.
HotCakeX Yes, I know, in this post I uploaded some gifs showing that.
And in those gifs the difference can be appreciated quite well (in other images uploaded here, you can't see how nice and pleasant that animation is).
Hi,
what you're seeing is the new loading animation that Edge insider is using, it's also happening in Google chrome canary.
previous on Edge insider I could turn it off and on using a flag called "new tab loading animation" or something like that, but it's gone now so I assume they are choosing this new animation to replace the old one.
I agree with you though, there was better ways to animate that. I hope they at least improve it 😕here is how it looks like on Chrome
New tab loading animation dark.
New tab loading animation dark.
HotCakeX Yeah, I remember that a long time ago I wrote that post on Reddit (where I included those high quality gifs):
From the moment that animation appeared in Chrome Canary, I loved it, it would be a shame if it is removed from the new Edge, in the stable version of Chrome now appears by default.
- I don't have much problem with it. it's the OP who doesn't like it
