1110165 - In the Share Extension, can we extract the favicon from the page?

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for iOS :: General, defect)

Description

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

When the Share Extension is used in Safari, we have the option to run some JS before and after the Extension executes. This would allow us to discover the favicon or touch-icon in the page.

It may make sense to do this. Then the code that takes the ShareItem can decide what to do with the found icons. Without having to load the page again.

Comment 1

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

Closing this. The favicon is currently not part of the UX design. If it has to be at a later stage then this bug can turn into a feature bug instead of a 'can we' bug.

(To answer part of the question in this bug: It seems *only* Safari exposes the ability to run JS on the shared page. Third party apps cannot expose the underlying page to share extensions. So if we ever want to display or grab favicons (or any other content) from the shared page, we would have to download it in an offscreen webview or http get it)