133789 - favicon.ico doesn't load unless it's referenced in the web page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121830

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Felipe]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020313
BuildID:    2002031312

favicon.ico *should*, at least according to IE 5 behavior, load from a web page
regardless of whether it's <LINK>'d into the HTML header. Previous versions of
Mozilla, I believe, worked this way; I only just now noticed that it wasn't working.

Mozilla.org, for example, only loads the icon on the home page; the page I'm
typing in now doesn't have it.

Freshmeat.net and sf.net, though, do load. I have "Show Web Site Icons" checked
under appearance in pref's, as well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the page 
2. Look in address bar
3.

Actual Results:  No icon.

Expected Results:  instead of default symbol in the address bar,
http://www.uiuc.edu/favicon.ico should show on any page on the www.uiuc.edu
server. Also, http://ninechoir.com's icon, ninechoir.com/favicon.ico, should
display likewise on the ninechoir.com site.

Comment 1

[Paul Wyskoczka]

favicons   qa --> claudius

Comment 2

[Paul Wyskoczka]

favicon   qa --> [e-mail]

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

Not a bug - they were disabled: See bug 120949.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121830 ***