1876725 - Prototype to use existing image caches as primary source for favicons

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, task)

Description

[Max Christian Pohle [:/dev/max]]

In bug 1873659 broken favicons were hidden in the dialog, which already improves the user experience a lot. This ticket is now supposed to rewrite the logic to reuse existing local image caches in order to avoid downloads, centralize the maintenance and improve the performance. This has been proven to work by using page-icon: address and the tippyTopIcon class for certain edge cases by a prototype, which I am going to link to this bug and based on which the approach can be further discussed and/or refined.

Comment 1

[Max Christian Pohle [:/dev/max]]

Attachment: WIP: Bug 1876725 - prototype to reuse existing caches for favicons

This is a first prototype to replace the entire acquisition with a
version which uses page-icon: or TippyTopProvider if available. It
could make sense to make that a separate bug and integrate it directly
in PlacesUtils.