420226 - make the "busy searching" icon for the location bar look different than the throbber favicon

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 326817

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Seth Spitzer]

suggestion for a "busy searching" icon for the location bar

the chrome://global/skin/throbber/Throbber-small.gif icon make me think I'm hitting the network or loading a page.

what about something like chrome://browser/skin/places/query.png (which is already a saved search / query, right?)

but the magnifying glass that moves around, if that makes sense.

Comment 1

[Seth Spitzer]

Attachment: image

Comment 2

[Seth Spitzer]

please see that data url.

(made with dolske's APNG Edit [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5519], but I was unable to save the data url to disk and attach it.)

If I wasn't so lame, I would have made the mag glass move around, not the whole thing.

perhaps this is too small of a movement?

Comment 3

[Seth Spitzer]

> but I was unable to save the data url to disk and attach it.

spun that off to bug #420230

Comment 4

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

I suppose this is almost a dupe of 326817. We've been talking about updating the throbber, and Alex had some ideas for a location-bar specific version.

Comment 5

[Seth Spitzer]

If that other bug includes having two different looking throbbers (or if faaborg has considered and rejected that idea), let's mark this a dup.

Comment 6

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

Yeah, over in bug 326817 we are planning on having a different throbber for the awesome bar so that the user doesn't think that it is making a network connection.

Comment 7

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup