Open Bug 1384685 Opened 7 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Include icon details in history records

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(Firefox :: Sync, enhancement, P3)

enhancement

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(Reporter: rnewman, Unassigned)

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(Depends on 1 open bug)

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Depends on: 717136
Blocks: 1384674
Bug 428378 has lots of discussion about the general "sync favicons" issue
See Also: → 428378
Richard, how is this different from bug 428378 (ie, is this a dupe of that?)
Flags: needinfo?(rnewman)
(In reply to Mark Hammond [:markh] from comment #2)
> Richard, how is this different from bug 428378 (ie, is this a dupe of that?)

Bug 428378 is, approximately: you need to fetch the favicon from the web.

This bug is that we don't even tell you _which icon_: you need to fetch the _page_ in order to know which favicon to use.

The history format is just:

  URI
  Title
  Visits

which isn't even adequate for the basic things we use history for.

A full re-treatment of history would include:

  - Deleted visits
  - Page summaries
  - Tile images
  - Icons
  - Metadata
  - Related pages
  - …

but icon stands out as something people have complained about! It means that a synced history entry for a URL on a site your device has already visited won't have an icon, because that connection between URL and icon is missing.

iOS has an open bug to guess the icon by domain: Bug 1196243.
Flags: needinfo?(rnewman)
Priority: -- → P3
Component: Firefox Sync: Cross-client → Sync
Product: Cloud Services → Firefox
Severity: normal → S3
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