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Of course, the mozilla icon is the most ugliest thing in the world (It doesn’t look that much like a horse). And thus started the long: “I love ThunderBrowse but I hate the ugly horse, it’s like horse ****”. I had no idea what in the world you are referring to, well it turns out to be that it’s the favicons you hate. Specifically the mozilla one.

I like favicons myself, so I don’t want to remove them from ThunderBrowse (I thought they would be a fun [not so hidden] easter egg, but I guess you can’t please everyone), and I definitely don’t want to rush out a build that adds some setting. If you want to remove favicons, just follow the steps below:

A) Install Stylish: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2108

B) Go to the stylish window (extension manager < Stylish < Options)

C) Click create a new style (name it whatever you want)

D) Add this code to the big text area:

@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);

#favIconDeck,.tab-icon {display:none !important;}

E) Press save.

The favicons will be removed. And then you can throw a party and/or donate.

Alright, now let’s start this blog with a bit of bang and with a first real post here on the ThunderBlog, I am going to tell you how to have your own favicon throbber by running a javascript: command.

For those who don’t know, this is a Throbber:

A relatively simple and fun hack is that you can replace the throbber that appears in Thunderbird to whatever image you like.

The first thing you should do is turn on javascript: (type in tbit:options and check Enable Javascript). Then go to a website or other place other than an email and type:

javascript:document.getElementById("navigator-throbber").setAttribute("style",

"list-style-image:url(http://gamespotting.net/favicon.ico) !important;");

Just change the url to a path to an image (25×21 pixels, 16×16 worked fine for me).

And here’s my result:

If your image doesn’t animate then the your icon will be greyed out as seen below: