246946 - Some Favicons are not shown in Personal Toolbar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252540

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Phia Kulak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-UK; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-UK; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

Some sites, even though they have a favicon, won't display the favicon in the
personal toolbar or the bookmarks sidebar. The favicon does show up in the URL
field.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/
http://www.oxfordreference.com/

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.bookmark on of the sites affected

Actual Results:  
no favicon in bookmarks manager/sidebar/personal toolbar

Expected Results:  
favicon showed as with most sites.

It's always the same sites.

MacOS X 10.1.5

Comment 1

[PikeUK]

WFM in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040727 Firefox/0.9.1+

Either it was fixed in the recent favicon overhaul or it's a Mac specific problem.

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040731
Firefox/0.9.1+ 

Phia, i can't confirm it with your addressed URLs. But I have the same problem
with http://www.heise.de/newsticker/. The favicon is never shown within the
bookmarks toolbar even after reloading the page multiple times.

Comment 3

[Leo Zelevinsky]

I have this problem with gmail - nice envelope item showing in the tab bar and in the URL bar, but in the bookmarks toolbar, shows the generic google G icon.

I do have TBE installed in case that matters.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 4

[Tobias]

I see the same problems with www.heise.de or www.zonelabs.com - but not only in
the toolbar but also in the bookmarks menu as well as site bar.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810
Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 5

[José Jeria]

Friend of mine installed the Preview Release on his Mac os X (10.3.5) and he
also sees this. Requesting blocking-aviary1.0mac for investigation.

Comment 6

[Sven Grull]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040917
Firefox/0.10
Favicons for amazon, oxfordreference and zonelabs are now stored in personal
toolbar.

Problems with heise.de favicon seem to result from bug 252401 as the icon has a
size of 21.9 KB. 

Comment 7

[Marcin Gryszkalis]

Same problem with http://www.wp.pl
The source contains:
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.wp.pl/i/const/favicon.ico" />

Comment 8

[Sven Grull]

(In reply to comment #7)

> Same problem with http://www.wp.pl

WFM (branch build 20040927 with WinXP) after dragging favicon to personal
toolbar and one visit of the site via click on the personal toolbar. The favicon
will not be loaded before this new visit of the site.

Comment 9

[Peter le Roux]

WinXP SP2, Firefox 1.0PR

Same error as described above, repeatable,consistent,error on the following site:

http://news.google.com
http://images.google.com
http://groups.yahoo.com
http://www.objectivenetworks.org

Comment 10

[Christian Münscher]

Confirmed on FireFox 0.10.1 on WinXP SP2

Comment 11

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Hardware => All

Comment 12

[Peter]

Hello,

I did some testing and experimenting with the favicons, and I think I found the
conditions when Firefox doesn's show the favicon in the personal toolbar or the
bookmarks sidebar.

This happens when the .ico library contains TWO icons (a 16x16 AND a 32x32
version): the favicon is shown in the Firefox address bar, but NOT next to the
bookmarks (in menu or in navigation bar).

The reason one would like to have the two versions in the .ico file is to
support an IE feature: when dragging an URL on the desktop, windows uses the
large icon; if only the 16x16 is present in the file, the icon on the desktop is
an ugly enlargement of the 16x16 icon (idem when exploring the favorites folder
with "view" settings to "large icons").

You can do the test yourself: choose a site that displays a favicon in the
firefox address bar, but not in the personal toolbar or bookmarks menu/sidebar,
eg. www.alistapart.com.
Open this link then in IE, and drag the URL to the personal links toolbar of IE;
now you have the favicon on the toolbar, but not yet in the address bar, so
you'll have to reload the browser content by clicking on the link you just
created (oh what do we love IE). Now drag the favicon/url from the adress bar
onto the deskop, and you will see the favicon, but in its larger and smooth
32x32 appearance. Try the same with a favicon that functions well in firefox
(eg. yahoo). You'll see that this shortcut icon appears ugly on the windows
desktop, since it's the enlargement of the unique 16x16 version in the .ico file.

Tested on: XP pro, IE 6.0, Firefox 1.0.1

(I'm very new to bugzilla and how this works, so no clue whether this is the
right place to post. Thanks for redirecting if this is not the case.)

Comment 13

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 303046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Steve Chapel]

Dupe of bug 252540?

Comment 15

[redhen898-online]

None of my favorite bookmark icons show in the bookmark toolbar. This is a major hassle, as I previously used these as an easy way to access frequently visited sites. Please fix it. Thanks!

Comment 16

[Speedo Goo]

normally, you can show the favicon on the personal toolbar with another click. currently, the only one i cannot make it appear is www.meebo.com (or any other page from meebo).

Comment 17

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

Comment 18

[Thomas Bertels]

I'm going to mark this bug as duplicate of the slightly newer bug 252540, because the latter is more general and seems to have more "popularity".