251359 - <link rel="icon"> is not displayed in tab for local (file://, chrome://) URLs

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Charles Melhorn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

Firefox displays shortcut icons in the location bar and on tabs for pages which
specify a shortcut icon with the <link rel="icon"> tag when they are invoked
with http:// URLs. However, the icon is not displayed in the location bar
(though it's still displayed on tabs) if the page is loaded locally. This case
includes file:// and chrome:// URLs. While the page is loading, the proper icon
is briefly displayed, but then is replaced by the default page icon.

After reviewing similar bugs (bug 204393, for example), I realize that the
shortcut icon handling code is due for a major rewrite, but I thought I would
add this behavior to the list of problems to be rectified.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[kravvitz]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

For me the icon is in the location bar but not in the tabs for file://.
I didn't test chrome:// since I'm not sure how.

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Same as in comment 1 for chrome:// URLs.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050401
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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