261627 - option to not include favicons during export.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Gabriel Seah]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040925
Build Identifier: Firefox 1.0 PR

Storing Favicons in the local copy of the bookmarks file is a good idea.
However, favicons should not be stored in exported bookmark files, since it adds
a lot to file size unnecessarily.

Eg A list of bookmarks 124kb when exported from Mozilla became 284kb when
exported from Firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit many sites in your bookmarks which have favicons
2. Export the bookmarks file
3. Gawk at how gigantic the bookmarks file is

Actual Results:  
Humongous sized bookmarks file

Expected Results:  
Decent sized bookmarks file, lean and sans icon-information

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

but what if you want to retain the favicon info (i.e. you're exporting to send
to a friend/another PC)

maybe an option in the export process would be good, but this isn't critical.

dumping into the post-1.0 bin as an enhancement.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 276627 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

html format is not going to change since we use it only for legacy support (ie importing from FX2), JSON backup on the other side does not export favicons (bug 423126), so since the json implementation is still not clear about that, this bug is wontfix atm