Closed Bug 1403504 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Bookmarks toolbar doesn't use regular favicons

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(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P2)

defect

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RESOLVED FIXED
Tracking Status
firefox-esr52 --- unaffected
firefox55 --- unaffected
firefox56 --- unaffected
firefox57 --- wontfix
firefox58 --- affected

People

(Reporter: francois, Unassigned)

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Details

(Keywords: nightly-community)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20170926220106

Steps to reproduce:

Add bookmark (with a favicon) to bookmarks toolbar


Actual results:

Bookmarks toolbar doesn't seems to always use 'rel="icon"' for the favicon. For some websites, 'apple-touch-icon' are shown.
A similar issue as been fixed for tabs icons (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401777).
Blocks: 1401777
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
This is known and we don't plan to fix it for 57 since the changes are not safe enough for it.
Component: Untriaged → Bookmarks & History
Priority: -- → P2
this is not actually a regression of bug 1401777, it's an expected regression of bug 1352459
Blocks: 1352459
No longer blocks: 1401777
I suppose what would help this is if site developers used the same icon image but different sizes.  With some blogs, such http://eq2wire.com/ the favicon.ico is a microphone image which the tab has and the bookmark gets the apple_touch_icon.png which is the standard WordPress icon.

On most of my sites I just have a single 16x16 favicon.ico in the root directory.  Anyway, is kind of annoying.
it's not necessary, the browser must be able to pick the best icon for the resolution it needs.
Also just having a single 16x16 icon is wrong, because on a double-dpi monitor you want to have a 32x32 icon at least.
The regression where we always picked the biggest icon has been fixed in Nightly, I verified the twitter and gitlab icons are now ok.

There are still some edge cases where we don't pick a good 32px image that we'll handle in bug 1403829, but for the most part this is fixed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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