181872 - address bar icon (favicon) changes to the default icon

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Camilo Sasuke Tsumanuma]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4

In mozilla.org or other web sites too, the tab icon appears correctly, but
changing tabs, or even without any tab change, the icon of the web site in the
address bar is changed to the default icon.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a tab with mozilla.org
2.Open other tab with any other site
3.Click in the mozilla.org web site tab


Actual Results:  
The address bar icon is changed to the default icon, instead of mozilla icon.

Expected Results:  
Should show mozilla icon.

I was using a theme and it happens with many themes. When switched back to the
classic theme the problem persists. I didn´t tried in a clean installation.

Comment 1

[Sébastien Delahaye]

Reporter, could you please try with a recent build and a fresh profile?

Comment 2

[Camilo Sasuke Tsumanuma]

Attachment: Screenshot of the wrong mozilla web site icon

The image shows that phoenix displays the default icon in the address bar
instead of correct mozilla web site icon.

Comment 3

[David Tenser [:djst]]

As Seb said, you're using an old version of Phoenix. Download the latest build
and create a new profile. Verify if you can reproduce the bug or not.

For more info about reporting bugs, read here:
http://texturizer.net/phoenix/bugs.html

Comment 4

[Camilo Sasuke Tsumanuma]

I downloaded this version:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021119 Phoenix/0.4

then deleted the old phoenix folder, unziped downloaded file, deleted default
profile and created a new profile with phoenix profile manager.

The problem reproduced most times.

Comment 5

[David Tenser [:djst]]

I can confirm this on the Phoenix Help site at http://texturizer.net/phoenix/

If you visit that site, the address bar will show the site icon. Now, click on
another page in the menu. The address bar will show the default icon instead. 

(I don't think Toolbars is the correct component for this bug.)

Comment 6

[Sébastien Delahaye]

*** Bug 185141 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Colin Ramsay]

This still happens in 0.6.1rc1 but I have some additional comments to make. 

1) Start FB
2) Open http://www.mozilla.org/start/ - icon appears in address bar
3) Open http://texturizer.net/firebird/index.html in another tab
4) Switch between tabs.  Icon appears for an instant upon switching then vanishes

Additionally, icons for Slashdot and Google always appear.

Comment 8

[David P James]

*** Bug 213328 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Wim Borghs]

This bug is affected by user_pref "browser.chrome.favicons".
This bug affects the icons in the Bookmarks menu also.

If you have user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons",true):
- Google and Slashdot seem to be unaffected because /favicon exists.
- Bugzilla and http://texturizer.net/firebird/ show the default icon in the
address bar because /favicon.ico doesn't exist.
- adot's notblog* may show the MozillaZine /favicon.ico in the address bar.
- the Bookmarks show the /favicon.ico if it exists, otherwise the page-related
icon if it exists, otherwise the default icon. I think it should show the
page-related icon if it exists, otherwise the /favicon.ico if it exists,
otherwise the default icon.

If you have user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons",false) then all sites show the
default icon in the address bar and the Bookmarks show the page-related icon if
it exists otherwise the default icon as it should.

New bookmarks show the default icon at first, only after some tab-switching I
get to see the specific icons.

Comment 10

[Worcester12345]

Status on this one? 

Comment 11

[PikeUK]

*** Bug 253244 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[PikeUK]

Changing summary to make more findable, old summary:

address bar icon changes to the default icon

Comment 13

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

-> me (bug in tabbrowser, most likely, but still appearing with new favicons code)

Comment 14

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

The tabbrowser doesn't create a listener for tab 0 when it's not in "tabbed
mode".  the favicon url (for whatever reason) lives on the listener, not on the
icon -- and it's that property (mIcon) that's used when the tab gets switched to
emit a new linkIconAvailable.  This sucks, but it's not worth groping through
tabbrowser to fix right now.

To recap, this only happens when:

1) You have a fresh firefox window
2) You visit a site with a favicon
3) You create a new tab, and then switch back to the original site in #2's tab

At that point, the first tab will not have a favicon in the urlbar.  If the page
is reloaded at that point, it will have an urlbar favicon and all will be well.

I'll fix this at some point, though the real fix involves getting rid of
non-"tabbed mode" and always being in tabbed mode internally.

Comment 15

[Christian Schmidt]

WORKSFORME using a build from today

Comment 16

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Indeed, WFM with the steps from comment 14