1676171 - Pinning sponsored topsite intermittently loses their favicon

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Top Sites, defect, P3)

Description

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop QA]

[Suggested Severity:]

S4

[Description:]

Pinning a sponsored topsite will lose their favicon and replace it with website’s first letter

[Environment:]

Windows 10
83.0b10-trybuild

[Preconditions:]

There are sponsored tiles listed in the topsites.

[Steps:]

1. Download and install RO localized Firefox.
2. Create an user.js and set: browser.topsites.useRemoteSetting = true and browser.search.region to "RO", connecting to the staging main-preview.
3. Start the browser with the predefined profile.
4. Open a new tab.
5. Pick any sponsored topsite and choose to pin it using the menu.

[Actual Result:]

Intermittently, the topsite loses it’s favicon which is replaced with a general icon containing the website's first letter.

[Expected Result:]

The favicon is not lost when the sponsored topsite is pinned.

Comment 1

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop QA]

This issue no longer occurs on latest Nightly 87.0a1 under Windows 10 64-bit, with browser.topsites.experiment.ebay-2020-1 preference set to True.