Indeed, as PC Mag's encyclopedia so helpfully defines, the throbber is an 'animated icon that notifies the user that an operation is taking place in the background, such as when an application is loading or a Web page is downloading.'
"If your throbber lasts more than 4 hours," another quipped, "you should probably call IT."
"At [M]ozilla everyone called it a throbber," they wrote, "but by the time [I] was creating and maintaining a design system, people *hated* that name, so we ended up calling it a spinner instead."
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