193621 - Mozilla does not show web site icons (favicons)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Stefan vom Bruch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

On my machine Mozilla does not seem to show any web site icons (favicons) except
for mozilla.org itself. No icon is displayed in the URL-field, tabs or bookmark
window for sites, which I know do have favicons, like www.yahoo.com,
www.avault.com, www.cnn.com, www.theage.com.au. 
Only the default bookmark icon is displayed. 
I have tried to switch the option "Show Web Site Icons" off and back on again, I
have cleared the cache, I have deleted bookmarks with the default icon, reloaded
pages and bookmarked them again. None of this makes any difference. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type in any URL, which is known to have favicons. 
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Page is loaded, default bookmark icon is shown next to URL, default bookmark
icon is shown next to page title on tab, default bookmark icon is shown under
bookmarks when page is added to personal bookmark file. 

Expected Results:  
After loading the page, favicon should be shown next to URL and next to page
title on tab. It should also be shown under bookmarks when page is added to
personal bookmark file. 

Bookmarks were originally imported from IE. 
I do not think this has ever on my machine with any version of Mozilla (starting
with 1.0).

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Mozilla displays only favicons with a link in the page source. 
This avoids 404 errors in the web server logs.

add this in a test-file "user.js" in your mozilla profile :
user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons",true);
(create it if it doesn't exist, use the same location as the file "prefs.js").

see the release notes for the path

-> invalid (no bug)

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

and favicons in bookmarks is a different bug and also already filed. 
Search it yourself.

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

*** Bug 193627 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 206241 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[aynilove [So, Jae-yoon]]

Thanks for this bug.
Now I can turned pref. on, I can see many favicons that dosen't before.

Comment 6

[aynilove [So, Jae-yoon]]

www.msn.com
This site has siteicon but Moz 03.05.28 couldn't display it well.

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 223152 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

you can also use "about:config" to set the pref.

Comment 9

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 269557 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***