Are there any technical problems using an animated GIF for a web site’s favicon instead of an actual

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Published on 2010-03-15T15:28:31Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 17:29 UTC
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When putting a favicon on your site, you can apparently use an animated gif, just by changing the gif file’s extension to .ico.

http://www.k-director.com/blog/how-to-add-an-animated-faviconico/

Have you encountered any problems doing this? (Aside from users being driven mad by some stupid little blinking favicon.)

Have you seen a browser get confused by a gif file with a .ico extension?

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