944550 - Smarter loading of favicons, handling of spinner state, etc.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Favicon Handling, defect)

Description

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

In Bug 941868 we tried -- and failed -- to cut down the number of places in which we respond to tab events by fetching and setting a favicon. This bug is a follow-up to try again.

Notable scenarios:

* Tab restore.
* Back handling.
* Document-driven location changes.
* Opening external links.
* Tab switching.
* about:home, which is part of a set of special-cased URLs that are synchronously enfaviconed during display... and still suffer a later asynchronous load that's immediately discarded.

Comment 1

[BMO Automation]

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