Infinite Firefox Loading Prank
Posted by Jon Lee in Entertainment, tags: april-fools, favicon, firefox, funny, prankNo idea what to do for April Fool’s Day? Here’s a simple (and nerdy) Apple Fools prank I whipped up. Simply tell your friends about the fastest and most accurate internet speed test out there: EZ Speed Test (http://www.ezspeedtest.com)
They’ll go there and wait … and wait… and wait for the page to load until they realize that the page has already loaded and they’ve been (mildly) punk’d.
Note: this only works with Mozilla Firefox for two reasons:
- Internet Explorer does not currently support animated favicons.
- I was too lazy to create the loading favicon for other less commonly used browsers.
If you visit the page with a browser other than Firefox, you’ll see that I did some (very basic) browser detection. I wish I had more time to make it more convincing but in all honesty, I purchased the domain yesterday and set up the page in 5 minutes — making the favicon took a bit longer though.
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