1062644 - window.location navigation from script file breaks <link rel="icon">

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 519028

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[microrffr]

Suppose you have a page with a favicon specified by a <link> tag and a script that sets the location hash when you load the page. I find that when the script is loaded from a file, the page's favicon won't show up in the tab. Strangely, when the script is specified inline, the favicon shows up fine.

Here are some demos I for this bug. They both immediately navigate to "#" and *should* have the Mozilla "m" favicon. In both cases, the linked icon appears in the "Media" panel of the page info window.

http://htmlpad.org/scriptfilenavfavicon/
This one assigns to location.href in a JS file. The favicon doesn't show up in the tab.

http://htmlpad.org/inlinescriptnavfavicon/
This one assigns to location.href in a <script> tag. The favicon shows up in the tab.

These definitely ought to be consistent, and I feel like they both should have the favicon show up.

Comment 1

[microrffr]

nvm, this is old.
bug 519028
bug 408415