This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

Replacement of favicon by PLAY icons is not an improvement

  • 1 reply
  • 1 has this problem
  • 2 views
  • Last reply by cor-el

more options

From v.88 to v.89, the favicon in tabs with playable/playing content has been replaced by a play icon. It isn't an improvement to me but a downgrade to firefox awesome UI: Favicon is the main element that permits the fast identification of a tab, the fact that a new tab contains some playable content is not relevant enough to replace the favicon with a playable icon, and the fact that a tab is playing something also is not relevant enough to replace the favicon with a playing icon. Is there any customizable option that I've missed that could allow me to return to the old way of displaying playable/playing content? If not, might it be something coming in the next updates?

From v.88 to v.89, the favicon in tabs with playable/playing content has been replaced by a play icon. It isn't an improvement to me but a downgrade to firefox awesome UI: Favicon is the main element that permits the fast identification of a tab, '''the fact that a new tab contains some playable content is not relevant enough to replace the favicon with a playable icon, and the fact that a tab is playing something also is not relevant enough to replace the favicon with a playing icon.''' Is there any customizable option that I've missed that could allow me to return to the old way of displaying playable/playing content? If not, might it be something coming in the next updates?
Attached screenshots

All Replies (1)

more options

This is affected by the Density settings as selected on the Customize page.

  • in Compact mode you only see the sound playing icon and not the website favicon
  • in Normal mode you see the favicon by default and the sound playing icon on hover
    there is a secondary line that shows the 'playing' or 'muted' state since the icon is hidden by default

See this thread: