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"The favicon will show a special icon to show you which tab started autoplaying some stupid video" The utter horror. It's so user hostile to make an easy way t

"The favicon will show a special icon to show you which tab started autoplaying some stupid video" The utter horror. It's so user hostile to make an easy way to see which tab is the source of the annoying sound you are hearing. Oh, and it doesn't hide the favicon unless you have so many tabs open each tab can only fit the favicon. So for probably the vast majority of users who don't spend their days with 300 tabs they never check constantly open, they don't see this. So user hostile

donkeybeer 3y ago
Whats the point of it? The previous design showed both the favicon and the sound playing icon together? The new one does not show the favicon anymore. The old design never felt cramped or tiny or anything like this, so I call bs on this.
donkeybeer 3y ago
SO I checked on a fresh profile with the floating separated tabs and all and there it shows some text underneath the tab saying playing, and the playing icon only when you hover the tab, taking the place of the favicon...which...is an even stranger behavior compared to the older design. It looks like the userchrome work to remove the gap between tab and page had caused the playing icon to show under it, which means i will have to work hard some more to combine both behaviors back to the older style ie no tab gap and both playing icon and favicon visible at same time. Either case I see no justification for this borderline bizarre change.
donkeybeer 3y ago
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1339535 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1339535 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1386107 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1386107 Look what an unholy mess the new change to audio playing status has caused. To summarize, in compact mode you will get the audio playing icon on a tab but it will hide the favicon in that case. In normal mode, and only if you have a small number of tabs, you will find a tiny 'PLAYING' text instead. If you hover over it, you will find the playing icon...which will have hidden the favicon then. UX geniuses with too much time on their hands.
donkeybeer 3y ago
Revisiting this comment to reiterate and make clear: the audio playing icon was always shown...but under the website favicon...the new design makes it so that only one of the audio icon or favicon is visible at a time.

donkeybeer 3y ago

Whats the point of it? The previous design showed both the favicon and the sound playing icon together? The new one does not show the favicon anymore. The old design never felt cramped or tiny or anything like this, so I call bs on this.

donkeybeer 3y ago

SO I checked on a fresh profile with the floating separated tabs and all and there it shows some text underneath the tab saying playing, and the playing icon only when you hover the tab, taking the place of the favicon...which...is an even stranger behavior compared to the older design. It looks like the userchrome work to remove the gap between tab and page had caused the playing icon to show under it, which means i will have to work hard some more to combine both behaviors back to the older style ie no tab gap and both playing icon and favicon visible at same time. Either case I see no justification for this borderline bizarre change.

donkeybeer 3y ago

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1339535 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1339535 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1386107 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1386107 Look what an unholy mess the new change to audio playing status has caused. To summarize, in compact mode you will get the audio playing icon on a tab but it will hide the favicon in that case. In normal mode, and only if you have a small number of tabs, you will find a tiny 'PLAYING' text instead. If you hover over it, you will find the playing icon...which will have hidden the favicon then. UX geniuses with too much time on their hands.

donkeybeer 3y ago

Revisiting this comment to reiterate and make clear: the audio playing icon was always shown...but under the website favicon...the new design makes it so that only one of the audio icon or favicon is visible at a time.