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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:

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