207465 - Reloading off-site OBJECT inserts offsite favicon in Firefox tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Bill Mason]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030527 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030527 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Given a page that uses the OBJECT tag to load a page from another domain into
it, if you reload the inserted OBJECT page, the Firebird tab has its icon with
the favicon of the inserted OBJECT page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.accessibleinter.net/ in a new tab.
2. Right-click on the "Web Standards Meetup Stats" box, choose This Frame ->
Reload Frame

Actual Results:  
The icon in the Firebird tag was replaced with the favicon from the domain
linked in the box via <OBJECT> (meetup.com).

Expected Results:  
The favicon (or lack of any designated favicon) should have been maintained in
the tab.

This functions correctly in Mozilla build 2003052808.

Minimal testcase to follow in case I drop the OBJECT from my page one day.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Attachment: Minimized testcase

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

This sounds a lot like bug 109672.

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

Except I can't replicate 109672 in Mozilla or Firebird.  This bug still
replicates in Firebird but not Mozilla.

Comment 4

[Anders Pedersen]

Confirmed. I see this on

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040331
Firefox/0.8.0+
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional 5.00.2195 SP4

Comment 5

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

-ing will take patch

Comment 6

[Bill Mason]

Removing URL since I don't keep an OBJECT on that page anymore.  The testcase
stands in lieu.

Comment 7

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 252160 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[n0dalus]

I don't know if this is related, but it seems likely.
We recently put Google ads on our site, and now the tab icon becomes a Google
icon after the page loads.
http://forums.shareconnector.com/

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

Comment 9

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

The testcase is WFM with Firefox 1.0 and this nightly build, both on Linux:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041216 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 10

[Bill Mason]

(In reply to comment #9)
> The testcase is WFM with Firefox 1.0 and this nightly build, both on Linux:
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041216 Firefox/1.0+

Still not working on 1.0 and trunk 20041215 PC/WinXP.
I'm not sure this has ever been a Linux bug.

Comment 11

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

WFM in Windows trunk, 2.0a3, and 1.5.0.4, and only fails in 1.0.8, so it apparently was fixed somewhere in the 1.8.0 era.