121348 - [RFE] Custom Web-Site Icons for Bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Troy Telford]

While Mozilla now allows web-site icons, and I very much like the feature; I
would really like, however, to have more control over the icons.

Specifically, I think the user should be able to select a 'custom' icon for
anything in the bookmarks (In other words, let the user change/specify the
web-site icon as a property of the bookmark entry)

This also applies to folders/subfolders.

The best description I can think of is to look at the way KDE's Konqueror allows
any & all bookmark Icons to be customized, set, or changed.  This way there is a
visual element to bookmarks that have no icon defined by the website, as well as
being able to add a pictoral identification to a sub-folder.

Sorry in advance if this is a dup; but searching for 'bookmark' and 'icon'
didn't seem to turn up anything.

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

Custom icons for folders is bug 114692.

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

*** Bug 129050 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Chris Lyon]

Confirming as RFE

Resummarizing.

Comment 4

[Joshua Prowse]

Attachment: Screenshot of IE/Win Dialog for selecting Favorite Icons

Comment 5

[Iuri Fiedoruk]

It shold be OS = all instead of WinXP

Comment 6

[timeless]

i mentioned when favorite icons were first introduced

Comment 7

[Iuri Fiedoruk]

Attachment: This shows konqueror (KDE browser) choosing a icon

Shows how konqueror can change a favicon in bookmark editor

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 165120 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Adam Katz]

i've wanted this for quite some time.
keep in mind that IE bookmarks are actually windows shortcuts, 
so specifying an icon is trivial.

since bookmarks are html, we could implement it in that manner
...even in-line, as per bug 121793.

this depends on bug 143687, Bring back site icons (favicons) in personal toolbar
because there are no icons in bookmarks currently.

(adding dependency)
adding self to cc list
suggesting target milestone->future

Comment 10

[haferfrost]

My proposal for fixing bug 143687 (bug 143687 comment 48) would fix this bug, too.
There's already a patch. If you can live with editing your bookmarks.html
manually (the patch doesn't have UI to change the icon) you can have your custom
icons right now.

Comment 11

[Jesse Ruderman]

Same bug for Phoenix: bug 199877.

Comment 12

[André Wyrwa]

*** Bug 257688 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Christopher Hicks]

Firefox will use favicon.ico files in the bookmarks now.  This isn't a perfect
solution for this bug, but it is a step in the right direction.

Comment 14

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 15

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420

Comment 16

[Xanthor Sccas]

This RFE is still valid...

Comment 18

[Adam Katz]

(In reply to comment #17)
> *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

I have no idea why that just happened.  I added a vote to a /different/ bug and did not change my vote on this one...

I currently use Favicon Picker 3 to solve this bug,
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/favicon-picker-3/

Comment 19

[Philip Chee]

WONTFIX => Extension Fodder e.g. Favicon Picker 2 and Favicon Picker 3