Okay, because I'm a real dork, I did an investigation on the ico problem in IE and FF. On IE, it has to be a real *.ico file, not a renamed file (so it wasn't working on my site earlier, renaming doesn't work). In addition, IE doesn't support animated, but it does support transparent favicon.ico. The site in the first post will give you a transparent version of the favicon.ico file, but not for the animated gif file. So basically that site will give you the best thing for IE, a transparent favicon.ico file (it's actually named 'transparent.ico' in the files they give you) For FF, that site will give you the animated file that only moves up and is not transparent. You'd be better off using another app to get a *.gif file that animates the way you want to and is transparent. Add this code between the HEAD tags to get the regular ICO file working for IE, and the animated GIF file working for FF. The paths could be different depending on where you uploaded the files. <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" > <link ref="icon" href="/favicon.gif" type="image/gif" > Code (markup): I also found a cool extension for Photoshop to save as *.ico here: http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/ It's the first download called: ICO (Windows Icon) Format. Hope that helped clear up issues.
Bumping an old thread ... but I've read that IE7 has much better support for favicon, and *MAY* support animated GIF's as Firefox does now - any experts out there want to toss their two cents in on that?
Not too sure if IE7 does, i downloaded it a while ago and cant remember seeing any animated ones........but saying that i dont see that many using firefox. I've removed IE7 now though cause i just didn't like it so cant check no.
Along with sc0ttish, I no longer use my IE6.0 because it crashes a lot. I agree that favicon *barely* works on IE. Heard of improvement with IE7.0 but Microsoft disallowed me to download it because they said my Windows XP version is not genuine. Fine by me coz I love FF!