258726 - Browser ignores ico file unless it is named favicon.ico

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Alvin Orzechowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817

The index.html file for the URL in question contains the following line:

<link rel="shortcut icon"
href="http://www.myfirstwebpage.net/images/MFWPico.ico" type="image/x-icon">

TOB (That Other Browser) recognizes this to be the icon file to use, but Mozilla
1.8a3 does not.  On the other hand, there is an index.html file at
http://www.myfirstwebpage.net/orzopics/ which contains the following line:

<link rel="shortcut icon"
href="http://www.myfirstwebpage.net/images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

Mozilla 1.8a3 displays that icon file perfectly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter http://www.myfirstwebpage.net/ in the Mozilla Address Bar and press
<Return>.
2. Note that the standard Mozilla bookmark icon is displayed in the Address Bar
when the page comes up.
3. Enter http://www.myfirstwebpage.net/orzopics/ in the Mozilla Address Bar and
press <Return>.
4. Note that the page's own icon is displayed in the Address Bar when the page
comes up.
Actual Results:  
See above.

Expected Results:  
When the http://www.myfirstwebpage.net/ page came up, I expected to see its own
icon displayed in the address bar.  Check it out in IE V5.n.

[BTW - In TOB, the only time a page's own icon is displayed is if that URL was
stored first in the the Bookmark/Favorites list.  That is according to Hoyle
anyway, so the fact that Mozilla displays the icon whether or not the URL is
saved first is a plus.  And I'll bet you that eventually IE will come around to
doing this as well.]

Comment 1

[Xanthor Sccas]

Maybe Mozilla doesn't display the favicon because the file doesn't exist...
I've got a 404 error trying to display
http://www.myfirstwebpage.net/images/MFWPico.ico 

(I haven't got IE, so I can't gess how it manage to display an inexistant file...)

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

IE looks for a "favicon.ico" even if there is a <link rel="shortcut icon">. 
Mozilla does not.

Looks like the page has been fixed so that the image actually exists.  Marking
invalid, since this wasn't a Mozilla bug.

Comment 3

[Alvin Orzechowski]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Maybe Mozilla doesn't display the favicon because the file doesn't exist...
> I've got a 404 error trying to display
> http://www.myfirstwebpage.net/images/MFWPico.ico 
> (I haven't got IE, so I can't gess how it manage to display an inexistant 
file...)

(In reply to comment #1)
> Maybe Mozilla doesn't display the favicon because the file doesn't exist...
> I've got a 404 error trying to display
> http://www.myfirstwebpage.net/images/MFWPico.ico 
> (I haven't got IE, so I can't gess how it manage to display an inexistant 
file...)

I was going to get on my high-horse and flame about such a stupid reply, but I 
decided to investigate first.  D*mn, you know, a capitol P looks just like a 
capitol F when you expect to see an F.  Yes, sir (or ma'am), the file was 
misnamed on my server.  I suspect the reason I saw it anyway was because an 
earlier iteration of it (the one with the correct name) must have still been in 
the IE cache.  Thanx for the Great Reply.