251948 - Favicons are occasionally associated with wrong bookmark.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 174265

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Poweryak/0.9.2 (All your Firefox/0.9.2 are belong to Firesomething)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Poweryak/0.9.2 (All your Firefox/0.9.2 are belong to Firesomething)

I don't think this has to do with icon caching.

Occasionally, the site icon for a bookmarked site that does not have a
favicon.ico will display the site icon for another totally different bookmarked
site that I have been to recently. The 
ICON field in the bookmarks.html file actually points to the wrong site.

For example, if both www.apdigitalnews.com and www.cnn.com are bookmarked and
have been to www.cnn.com recently and then go to www.apdigitalnews.com,
sometimes the bookmarks.html entry will look like this:

            <DT><A HREF="http://www.apdigitalnews.com" ADD_DATE="1087361242"
LAST_VISIT="1090090591" ICON="http://www.cnn.com/favicon.ico"
LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1" ID="rdf:#$dJs32">AP Digital</A>

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to a bookmarked site that contains a favicon.ico
2.  Go to another bookmarked site that does not contain a favicon.ico
3.  Close browser

Actual Results:  
Occasionally the icon for one site will display the icon for the other and the
bookmarks.html file will point to the wrong site's icon.

Expected Results:  
Each site should display its own icon.  The bookmark file should not have sites
point to other sites favicon.ico files.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Flirefox has forked bookmarks, both front end and back end.

Comment 2

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

Fixed on aviary branch, should be in latest firefox nightly.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 174265 ***

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change