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this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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There isn't anything to specifically update the favicon of a tab. But you can do the exact same thing websites can update their favicon with; run a content script on the web page that modifies the favicon. Firefox will then show whatever the new icon image is in the tab bar.
I don't have a better example but the content script of an extension I wrote updates the favicon during media playback in a tab. As an overview it creates a canvas of the original favicon, creates a new link element as the "new favicon", updates that canvas during playback, and then sets the created link element href attribute to the data uri created from the canvas.