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My firefox taskbar icon "glows" red on instantiation & roll-over. What does this mean?

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I notice a recent change in my Firefox task bar icon. The icon background changes from gray to a red "glowing" image during instantiation and subsequently when my mouse cursor is rolled over it. Firefox is running on Windows 7 Professional. This does not occur on another box running Win 10. What gives -- is it a warning of impending danger, explosion, doom, ...?

I notice a recent change in my Firefox task bar icon. The icon background changes from gray to a red "glowing" image during instantiation and subsequently when my mouse cursor is rolled over it. Firefox is running on Windows 7 Professional. This does not occur on another box running Win 10. What gives -- is it a warning of impending danger, explosion, doom, ...?

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If I hover or right-click the Firefox icon on the Windows 7 Taskbar, it definitely has some kind of "blush" to it that I don't remember seeing before.

Several aspects of the theme changed in Firefox 57, so possibly this is also from that update.

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I wondered if it might not be a result of an update, but I'm glad to hear that someone else has experienced this "blush" or "flush" too -- good description! Possibly, the Firefox has become embarrassed or hot?

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Where is that showing at? A more complete screen shot of the problem helps others identify where it is coming from.

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Hi WestEnd, it's on the Windows 7 task bar. If you hover your mouse over the icon while Firefox is running, it gets a "glow."

Here is a comparison between the Extended Support Release of Firefox 52 -- pale orange blush -- and Firefox 57. Perhaps the shift toward more red is due to the change in the colors of the "fox" (red panda).

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Thanks, jscher2000. Your observation of the difference between the blushes of Ff 52 ESR & 57 is interesting. The pink/red blush appears to me as a warning or indication for concern.

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That phenomenon is called 'Color Hot-Track' .....

See :

https://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/155822-reddish-colour-taskbar-2.html

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Another page that discusses this "Color hot-track" feature.

It seems to part of Aero, so if you would disable Aero then this glowing will be gone.

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