136014 - favicons delayed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 120466

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Jamie Zawinski]

When I start up, my toolbar links and bookmarks for sites
that have favicon.ico images do not display the icons until
after the first time I've visited the site (after which,
they seem to stay around for the whole session.)

I see that the ICON= URLs are being saved in my bookmarks,
so you know they're there.

I can understand that you don't want to load potentially
hundreds of URLs when the browser starts up -- but, I'm
sure these URLs have not yet expired from my cache, so 
I'm guessing you're not even looking.

If they're in the cache, you should use them.  If they're
not in the cache, then you should wait until they get
loaded as a side effect of visiting the site.

Though I also think that these images probably ought to
always be considered "current" as far as cache expiration
goes, since they're constantly visible on the screen
(the toolbar buttons, at least.)

Comment 1

[Emlyn Shannon]

See bug 113430, where all kinds of stuff about this problem is going on.

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120466 ***