On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:45:30AM -0500, hugo vanwoerkom <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 3.0~rc2-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > When opening a tab, or reusing one, the favicon of Loading... stays
> > motionless.
> > It rotated in iceweasel 2.
> > It also rotates using the latest Firefox nightly build and using Firefox
> 3
> > RC3.
>
> The most probable reason is that the new icon is an APNG, which iceweasel 3
> doesn't recognize, while firefox does. APNG is a torture of the PNG
> standard,
> that was rejected by the PNG group, and official libpng is probably not
> going
> to include APNG support for a while. Firefox uses a bundled and heavily
> patched libpng, which we can't for maintenability reasons.
>
>
Thanks Mike, that explains it.

Hugo

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