I made a Firefox extension to change the default throbber (animated circle in the upper right corner, that spins when a page is loading). I changed it to a small spinning rotor. As with any Firefox extension, it is easy to remove if you don't like it, so go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8315 and try it out. Tell me what you think.

 

nice

 

Sounds cool. Anyway I can get it without creating an account and logon on the mozilla site? I get enough spam as it is.

 

Yeah, didn't realize you needed to login.

also: This is an extension, not a theme, so you can use it with whatever the current theme you are using.

For those that don't want to login:
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(although, those with an account, I would prefer you grab it from the mozilla site, so that I may collect user downloads, and thus be more likely to be able to nominate it to be an approved addon)

 

i've installed it, but it's not showing up, went through the installation restarted firefox, nothing, checked under tools/add-ons and it was installed so i unistalled it, repeated the procedure, and it's still the usual little circle throber am i missing something? is there any specific version of firefox this will work in?

 

+1 same here. I wonder if I need to restart Windows to get it working. Maybe some dll needs to be reloaded.

 

i remember back when this was done in IE. had to make changes to the registry.

 

no, you have to update firefox, i did this and it started working, there's a new version 3.0.1 lol
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox...FQObFQod6lz_QA


pretty cool little add on :P, can you make a whole theme like that? it'd be the ****.

 

Works on mine with 3.0.1 installed.

 

Hmm, I'm at 2.0.0.11 right now. I'm not updating just for this though.

 

Hmm, looks like I have to figure out why it doesn't work in FF2

 

Looks like I fixed it. Let me know if you have any problems:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8315 v1.1

 

Haha, me too. I still have it on one of my old machines.

I just installed this one, looks good, thanks!

~T.J.

 

Downloaded but it doesnt seem to want to show for me

 

hey thanks man, i just installed it & it rocks. had one on IE a year or so ago. cool dude

 

Finally fixed the FF2 problem. Please download from:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8315
(Version 1.2)

 

I just downloaded and ran the program, now there is no circular loading nor rotary loading icon...

 

Grab the latest from your personal site and its working now. Cool!

 

sweet deal

 

now i know how i am going to pollute all m friends computers. heh..they think they have a rotary virus

 

Just wanted to say that Mozilla has approved it, and it is no longer experimental.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8315

 

Confirming that this extension works on a MacBook Pro running Mac OSX 10.5.5 Firefox version 2.0.0.1.7.

Thanks!

 

Awesome, works for me.

 

Works on iMac Running FF 3.0.1.

Stationary image is very nice. Only adjustment I would make it cleaning up the white lines around it when the browser is loading a page, or when the rotor is turning.

 

Thank you.