165458 - Does not show Website Icons

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Bela Rasky]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

Even though checked in the preferences appearance menu neither URL-Bar nor
Bookmarks nor Sidebar show Website Icons when other browsers (Netscape 7.0
Preview) does.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Shark Daddy (Jonathan L.)]

Please give an example site. It may be your hidden prefs.

Comment 2

[Shark Daddy (Jonathan L.)]

Please give an example site. It may be your hidden prefs.

Comment 3

[Shark Daddy (Jonathan L.)]

Whoops. There wasn't supposed to be text in that second post; I was changing bug
parameters. Anyway, I see this bug also, and it is likely a recent regression.
Will have a look, but so far it appears to be only occuring at
<website>/favicon.ico. 

Reporter: can you see the website icons at mozilla.org and at mozillanews.org?

Comment 4

[Shark Daddy (Jonathan L.)]

I believe this (favicons) was turned off, but there is a pref to turn it on. Now
either the Appearance UI-pref is not working, or it was decided that favicons
are out period, and that the UI-pref only applies to real website icons (i.e.
you can only enable favicon support through hidden prefs, not through the
Preferences menu). I also used to see favicons, however now that you mention it,
I don't. This, however may be due to my user.js' recent deletion. So I could
just be confused. Or am I? I don't know...

Comment 5

[Shark Daddy (Jonathan L.)]

Try this: Create a blank file called user.js (making a text file and renaming it
to user.js would do the trick) and place it in your Profile folder (your profile
is by default in (C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\<your profile
name>\<generated folder name>\). You have the right folder if it includes
bookmarks.html. In user.js, add the following text, and save:

user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons",true);

Open Mozilla and try. Do you see the icons?

I had this setting up until very recently, and I could see favicons. I thought
that there was also a UI-pref for it but I may have been wrong. We'll see.

Comment 6

[Shark Daddy (Jonathan L.)]

No response from reporter. Favicons WFM now that my profile is uncorrupted. This
is my bad. INVALID problem in the first place.

Comment 7

[Shark Daddy (Jonathan L.)]

v. As a clarification, Reporter stated in an email that only /favicon.ico didn't
work.