252447 - In the bookmarks toolbar, an icon from one website is also incorrectly used as the icon for another.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 174265

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[tom collings]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

I have http://o2.co.uk and http://www.cbfsms.com/ In my bookmarks toolbar
folder.  I visit the o2 website, their icon appears in the toolbar.  I quite
firefox, start up again and the icon for the o2 website is also the icon for cbfsms.

Please note I have moved the location of both sites on the toolbar and this
doesn't affect the behaviour.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.clear cache
2.put o2 site and cbfsms site in bookmark toolbar
3.visit o2 site
4.restart browser to find o2 icon in both places

Actual Results:  
the o2 icon was the icon for the two said websites instead of just the o2
website in the bookmark toolbar.

Expected Results:  
not put the o2 icon as the cbfsms icon in the bookmark toolbar

Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

I don't get any favicons on those two sites.
Moving to FF as I belive this is their code.
This might be bug 259993

Comment 2

[bobm]

I've seen this too.  In particular, I have a book mark for the straightdope
message boards, which keeps picking up some favicon for some other site:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=3

If I remove the bookmark, and reassign it, it eventually winds up with some
random favicon.ico from some other site (at the moment, it is showing the Google
favicon).  Note that boards.straightdope.com/favicon.ico does not exist - it
should be left blank.  If I look in bookmarks.html, it has added the icon as a
base 64 encoded "ICON" attribute.

Somebody else recently noticed it as well and reported it on the "about this
message board" forum of that message board.

Comment 3

[Michael Lefevre]

duping to the older bug as this report was with Firefox 0.9.

The problem has been reduced in current versions, but still exists and is now
bug 271359

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