1460219 - Ctrl+F5 reload doesn't reload favicon

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 418144

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Marius Gedminas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180406121424

Steps to reproduce:

I noticed that an intranet site did not have a favicon.  I added a favicon.ico to the web root and refreshed the page with Ctrl+F5. No favicon.  I then added

    <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico">

to index.html at the project root and refreshed the page with Ctrl+F5.


Actual results:

Firefox does not show a favicon in the tab.


Expected results:

Firefox should show the favicon that is there, after I hit Ctrl+F5.

(I've tried a fresh Firefox profile with HOME=/tmp/wtf firefox --new-instance, and Firefox shows the favicon for that site.)