163673 - Favicon requests should not interfere with normal browsing

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Toolbars & Menus, defect)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

If you have a large bookmarks file, we'll fire of hundreds of favicon requests
in a short space of time at launch. This maxes out the number of available necko
connections, and prevents web page loading until they've all been fetched. (On
subsequent launches, most of them should be in the disk cache.)

We need to avoid this situation, perhaps by serializing favicon requests, or
making sure that we're not doing more than 2 at once.

Comment 1

[Niklas Dougherty]

Why not have a dedicated page icon cache file? This would never grow too big.

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

That doesn't help the cause where you're starting without any cached icons, or
have just imported lots of new bookmarks.

Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

*** Bug 165656 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Aleksey Nogin]

Dedicated favicons store is bug 117895.

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

This is fixed, now that favicons only show up on the BM toolbar, and always come
from the cache.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

site icons now show up only in the urlbar (location field), bookmarks toolbar
and tab widgets.

rs vrfy.